iLife Week Two: "iRest"
This week I am going to be preaching on Sabbath as part of the " iLife " sermon series. Whenever I think of the word "Sabbath," I think of lying on the couch on a Sunday afternoon after a huge meal with football on the television, and the knowledge that I will soon be sleeping. I'm pretty sure that over half of the people who come to church on Sunday have a nap in their future. Some of my parishoners don't wait until they get home to start their nap---they just catch forty winks right there in their pew. I can see them. I don't think they know that. In my last church there was an elderly lady who would come to church and would sleep through half of the service, but very nearly all of my sermon. Without fail, she would leave, shake my hand and tell me what a good sermon I preached. Remember when things were "closed on Sunday?" I am old enough to remember these things. You didn't just pop in to the store on Sunday after church...