Everybody quotes Psalm 23.

Almost nobody notices where the rod actually shows up — not beside the still waters, not in the green pastures, but in the valley of the shadow.

In Episode 33, Pastor Johnny Sierra sits down with Pastor Tim Grandstaff and Pastor PJ to slow down on just two verses, Psalm 23:3-4, and it turns out two verses is more than enough.

We get into what "He restores my soul" meant to an actual shepherd (it isn't a nap), what happens to a sheep that flips onto its back and can't get up, and why the thing that kills a sheep is usually the ground it refuses to leave. We handle the word most of us get wrong — "the valley of the shadow of death" carries darkness, not just dying — which takes this psalm off the funeral program and drops it into your Tuesday.

Along the way: a real Maasai sheph ...