Our methods of bearing witness may be redirecting the devotion that should accrue to Jesus and drawing it to ourselves. We risk no longer feeding Christ’s sheep but feeding on them instead.

Jesus directed in John 21:17 to “Feed my sheep.” He assigned the task to Simon Peter, but followers for 2,000 years have taken the teaching as their own.

The third ask of Jesus to Peter, “Feed My Sheep (v.17)”, implies the sum of the command itself and emphasizes continual care for Jesus’s mature people.

And Jesus said to him a third time, “Peter, feed my sheep.” I wonder: what would that sound like to you, when you’re fed up and can’t take it anymore, to be told, “Feed my lambs”?

Peter recounts how the risen Jesus appears to him and his brother at the Sea of Galilee.

The community has always supported Feed My Sheep since the beginning in 1983 and without the support of the community we wouldn't exist, but we have been in the black since we reopened in 2009 ...

Feed My Sheep’s year-round day program offers hot showers, a phone, laundry facilities, storage bins, hot lunches (made by volunteers and sometimes served by area students), job assistance, and a ...

But Jesus makes clear that wallowing or going to back “normal” are not an option. Three times he replies to Peter: Feed my sheep.

I had the privilege of providing a Sunday School lesson about a subject that is somewhat unique to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but which I believe has meaningful application ...

What began in a single closet has grown to several food pantries and a mobile delivery service at Staunton's Central United Methodist.

Jesus’ threefold command to Peter wasn’t just a moment of personal redemption — it was the moment Christ entrusted him with universal pastoral authority.

Feed My Sheep: A Catholic reflection on the Food Assistance Convention William Whelan September 26, 2013 For people of faith, responding to hunger is about neither politics nor humanitarianism.