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Out Our Way:

The Gospel According to Goliath

Mark 11:12-21: 'The fig tree'

Out our way, folks come to depend on each other, and it is something we tend to take for granted. Farmers help each other seed and bring in the crops. Ranchers help out at each other's roundups and brandings, and that same sense of neighbor is reflected in the small town as well.   

A classic example is the volunteer fire department. In the tiny town of Lingle, Wyoming, population 426, I joined the local fire department and became a "mudflap," as all rookies were called. I rode on the back of the fire trucks where rookies were assigned - hence the "mudfla...

 

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