Lead Like a Good Shepard

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This sermon is # 2 of a two-part series on authority/submission—one helps to understand the other. What is the biblical perspective on exercising authority? A shepherd is the primary biblical metaphor for any good leader, so we all should be learning to be good shepherds in this life and in the next life. Many of the founding principles of United Church of God, including “servant-leadership,” are based on the model of a shepherd. From Psalm 23, we can learn several important lessons about the responsibilities of a good shepherd. Among other things, he provides good nourishment and other needs of the flock, he protects them from predators and pests and even other (bullying) sheep, and “restores” them with his efforts to heal, comfort and encourage.
UCG Sermon
Donald Hooser

Don Hooser is a minister for the United Church of God. He lives in McKinney, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.  He and his wife Elsie had three children, and she died in August 2020.  Don married Judy in January 2022.  Mr. Hooser graduated in 1963 from Southern Methodist University with a degree in mechanical engineering, and graduated in 1966 from Ambassador College, Big Sandy, Texas.  For most of the time since then, he served as the pastor of churches in Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington. From 2011 until his retirement in 2021, his primary responsibility was answering the many letters written to the Church.