Sermons & Worship from November 2017

I Samuel 8:4-22 As many of you know, the only sport I follow is baseball (unless you count Four Square with the youth,) and over the years, I have collected a number of books about baseball. Here, for example, I have a book called Baseball: An Illustrated History. It is the companion book to Ken Burns documentary on the history of baseball since its first recorded games in the 1840’s when it was played by young prosperous gentlemen of the New…

Joshua 1:1-9 In November of 2016, hours after the Chicago Cubs broke a 108 year old curse to win the World Series, the cemeteries of Chicago sprouted Cubs’ hats and flags draped across the tombstones of loved ones. Sharon Sokas said that she had put a Cubs’ flag on her husband Michael’s grave because she watched the entire series with her husband constantly in her mind. “He would have been ecstatic,” Sokas said as she stood at her husband’s grave.…