Out Our Way: The Gospel According to Goliath: Of loaves and fishes

Mark 6:35-44

Out our way, different professions call for different skills. Goliath has the makings of a good cow horse because he has what they call “horse sense.” He isn’t afraid of bulls, but he respects their power — and he usually doesn’t need much direction from me to know how to head off a heifer that is going to get in too much trouble because “Old Doc” knew his business.

Many years ago when God called me into the ministry, he was specific about me being a Presbyterian. That called for an intense study of the Holy Scriptures — not only in English, but in the origina...