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LOVE LIKE JESUS - HEAVY SHEEP

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        Luke 15:3-7    This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.   If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?   Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.                                                                                                          1  John 3:16-18         The strained glass window pictured above is located in the front of the sanctuary, over the altar table, in our church.  I see it every time I'm in the sanctuary.  On Sunday morning, the gathered Body of Christ gazes upon it (and woe be on anyone who forgets to turn on the back lighting).  It's a well known fixture in our church.  When the preschoolers come over once a week for story time with the Pastor, one child is exclaims, "There's Jesus!"  In other w