A Pastoral Tribute to Magic & Bird
March Madness has begun for both the men and women’s game. Are you watching? Excited? This time of year is simply amazing. Basketball everywhere. And Baseball in the wings. This morning I’d like to do something a little different. It’s been a tough week. We’ve hosted a few memorials the past couple weeks, and the grief heavy to bear. I’d like to do something lighter, related to March Madness. Call it an ode to basketball using the vehicle of two iconic players. This is a Christian tribute to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. You might ask, how could a tribute to Magic and Bird be Christian? Are the two Christian exemplars and we didn’t know it? Not exactly. But I strongly feel that there are Christian lessons to learn all around us, if you look close enough. This includes sports. In fact, sports are a great place to look. Sports is a human endeavor, after all. And Paul himself pointed to athletics as indicative of the human life. I Corinthians 9:24 - " Don’t you know that all the run...