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i was once afraid of heights A sermon on the Beginning of the Bible ( Himself ): Referencing Seinfeld  never goes well. But I can’t help myself! The show is a masterpiece ! The care and craft that went into it are lovingly conspicuous. The intricacy with which the jokes are set up and the aplomb with which the punchlines are delivered all betray the very premise upon which the show itself was based! If you didn’t already know, and I hope you do, Seinfeld is famously about Nothing . A car lost in a parking lot, gum-chewing, a wink, soft-talkers, traffic, waiting for a table, and “yada, yada, yada.” These are all fair game. And rather than flopping , all these nonstarters turn out to be raw material for some of the best television ever created! That’s a bold claim. But it holds up. The genius of Seinfeld was the realization that those parts of life we consider insignificant are really prime material for   great comedy . And upon reviewing their opus, you’ve got to han...

 that she gave you back when you didn't own a beautiful thing A sermon from John 14 on the 3rd Article of the Creed To talk about the Holy Spirit, I want to talk about that 90’s sitcom, Seinfeld . Specifically, the character George Costanza . George, that unlucky in life, lovable loser . NOT what you were expecting? Good ! That’s how it goes with the Holy Spirit and us; it defies expectations! What the writers of Seinfeld did that was so brilliant was to make the unusual move, at the time, to refuse to dress George up . Or any of the other characters, for that matter. The humor of Seinfeld was that no one ever got their act together ! Everyone was more or less stuck with whatever their inherent defects were.   The question of Seinfeld was never , would the characters learn . In fact, that was a rule in the writers’ room, “No learning. No hugging. In the world of Seinfeld the gag always was, how would the characters finagle their shortcomings. Whereas George was hapless ...