Sunday July 11

So this morning it was my privilege to bring the Word at morning service. I preached from Mark 4, the "Peace be still" passage. The point of the sermon was that we need to claim our PEACE (Praise, Experience Joy, Accept God's Will, find Contentment, and Expect a Blessing -- not original) we all need to find and claim our PEACE of the Rock, which of course, is Jesus.

After the game, I used my new micro projector to wrap up Bible study. I wanted to show folks pics from the Israel trip and tie it in to what we've been studying. Unfortunately, a LED micro projector isn't really suitable for teaching large groups of people.

The Liberty game was at 4 pm. On the train on the way down, I saw a guy reading a book titled "The Theology of Time." It had the crescent-moon symbol of Islam, so I assume the guy was Muslim. A scruffy, unkempt, apparently homeless young man came walking through the car. The guy with the book left everything on the seat and went to the other end of the train. There he pressed something into the hand of the young man. I thought it was really nice that this guy was giving charity without being asked.

So it was really surprising when the scruffy, unkempt young man came walking back through the car. He whipped out a cellphone and put it up to his ear. "Wow," I thought, "homeless people have cellphones now." When he came over to our end of the car and pressed the money back into the apparently Muslim guy's hand, I finally figured out that this young man was just scruffy and unkempt, but apparently neither homeless nor lacking in integrity, since he returned the money.

Of course, this is NYC. You never really know.

RIP, Bob Sheppard, famed Yankee announcer.

So the Liberty game was such a snoozer that I actually got a cup of coffee at halftime. I think the score was something like 38-45. Maybe more. While the Liberty were the first to score, they maintained a 9-point deficit for most of the game. It was pretty amazing when they won by 2 or 3 points. After the game, season ticket holders had the opportunity to get autographs from the players. I had Leilani Mitchell and Cappie Pondexter personalize theirs. It's great that they have these fan sessions, but what would really be great for me would be for the ladies to play better ball and win more. The team had a total of something like 57 points, and Cappie Pondexter scored 30 of them. I'd like to see the rest of the ladies hustle as much as she does.

It's 5 past 11. I wanted to be in bed by ten.