By Jim Barnette, Ph.D. Samford University and Brookwood Baptist Church, Mountain Brook Jesus Teaches Mark 4:1–9 At my ministerial ordination service, Toby Nutt, friend and son of the beloved humorist Grady Nutt, stepped forward and laid his hands on me. Grady had died in a tragic plane crash some seven years earlier. “Jim,” Toby said as he pressed his hands…