The Village Shepherd
Will You Risk Bearing Fruit?
Sermon
On our recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land, we drove through the Judean desert. Even in a coach on a good road it was a scary place. The terrain on either side of the road wasn't undulating smooth sand as far as the eye could see (as I'd always imagined desert to be), but was miles of hills which were so bare and barren that nothing grew there. These rocky hills were craggy and dangerous and stretched as far as the eye could see, an ideal place for guerilla warfare, for terrorists could easily disappear into the hills and never be found again.
