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y of Derry resbyter & Don e P ega Th l NEWS SHEET No. 7 September 2011 “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; And he who does not believe the Son shall not see life” John 3:36. EDITOR: W. A. McKinley, Ballylawn, Manorcunningham, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. 00353 (0)74 91 57350. Tel: (074) 91 21633 Contact us for all your Agricultural & Domestic oil requirements FULL RANGE OF TANKS STOCKED EDITORIAL the secret sins of selfishness and pride. The Shepherd calls to us and listens for the slightest sounds of life. He hears the faintest cry. If He hears nothing at all, He Jesus, Our will not give up and go away. He lets us wander away, hoping that weariness and despair will turn us around. And when we Shepherd turn to Him, He is there to greet us. “The Lord is near to all who call upon Him (Ps. 145: 18). Our waywardness, and there is so Some six hundred years after David much of it in society today, doesn’t have composed his Shepherd Song, Psalm 23, to be explained to God, as He is never Jesus said with quiet assurance: surprised by anything we do. He sees “I am the good shepherd. The good everything at a single glance, seeing into shepherd lays down his life for the sheep… the dark corners of our hearts knowing I know my sheep and my sheep know me everything about us that there is to know. – just as the Father knows Me and I know But what He sees only draws out His love the Father – and I lay down my life for the for us, for there is no deeper motivation sheep.” (John 10: 11-15).
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