Out Our Way: Babysitting cows - Titus 2:11-14

Out our way, I rode a big bay quarter horse I called "Doc." His official name was "Goliath" as he stood 16½ hands high and weighed in at around 1,200-plus pounds. But I started calling him "Doc" because over the years I learned so much from him. I referred to him as my "Professor of Horse-Sense Theology" - and a great deal of what I share with you in these columns came from studying "theology under saddle."

It is amazing the lessons that God can teach us through some most unexpected teachers along the way, and Doc was not my only professor. I recall riding on the Empire ranch in the...