Robert Walglemouth asks you to imagine a football quarterback who's been sitting on the bench.

Suddenly, he's sent into action.

And so he runs out in the field and now he has the responsibility of calling the plays and making the team move down the field.

It's a very dangerous thing.

So it's the blend of the joy of leadership and the dangers of leadership as well.

Robert says that's a picture of being called to lead a home.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Wacklemoot, author of The Quiet Place for December 29th, 2017.

This week, we are reviewing some of what God has done in 2017, and we've been listening

to clips to some of the top series

of the year. And that includes a series called Like the Shepherd. Now, Revive Our Hearts is a

program for women, but we know men listen sometimes, and we knew all our listeners would enjoy

hearing from Nancy's husband, Robert.

As we begin the top series of the year, here's Nancy and Robert talking about his new book for husbands called, Like the Shepherd, Leading Your Marriage with Love and Grace.

I just want to get this out of the way because I know somebody is thinking it. If the husband is the shepherd, that makes the wife a sheep.

And for a lot of women, I'm not sure that's something that really want to be called.

I'm sure you're right.

Necessarily a flattering concept.

So help us out for those where this may seem just like it doesn't make sense.

Yeah, of course. When the Bible was

composed, it was back in the day when people were herdsmen and agriculturalists, farmers, fishermen.

So that was the culture. You know, the industrial age hadn't happened yet. So the illustrations

and so forth are in the context of those things.

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