Playing With God
This is the manuscript version of the sermon I preached (without manuscript) on Sunday, June 16, 2019, at First Church of Christ, Congregational, United Church of Christ, North Conway, New Hampshire. I very likely said a few things that aren't here and didn't say a few things that are here, which is the nature of preaching in the style that I do! Psalm 8 (NRSV) O Lord , our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have p