Take Me Out to the Ballgame (an object lesson using a baseball)

Imagine a baseball game in which only the pitcher showed up to play for one of the teams. He'd get clobbered! This children's sermon reminds kids that God gave us the church so that we wouldn't have to try to go it alone. Other Christians are there to help us, support us, and make us stronger.

Mother’s Day: Creating Joyful Motherhood

Once again it is Mother's Day. It's a nostalgic moment for me, as it is for most of us. My earliest memories of Mother's Day go back to our little white Cape Cod home in Arlington, Massachusetts, surrounded by the white picket fence. In those days, it was the custom, at least in New England, that on Mother's Day you wore a flower. It was a token of respect to your mother. A white carnation in her memory if she was dead, a red carnation to celebrate her presence if she was living. I'm sort of sorry that custom has gone out of style.