I love good news/bad news jokes.  One of my favorites is about two friends who swear to each other that whoever turns out to be the first to die will somehow get word to the other whether there's baseball in heaven.  One of them dies and appears to the other in a dream.  "I've got good news and bad news," he says.  "The good news is--there's baseball in heaven; the bad news is-- your name is listed in the lineup for next Saturday night."  Well, maybe that's not such bad news after all.

When God came knocking on Abraham's tent door one day, he had both good news and bad news to deliver to Abraham and his wife Sarah.  The good news was--Abraham and Sarah were going to have their first child at the ripe old age of 100 and 90, respectively.  Sarah laughed at that one, but God was not joking!  Just as he promised, within a year, Sarah gave birth to Isaac.  The second bit of news wasn't as cheerful.  God intended to destroy the nearby cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for their great wickedness.  Abraham's nephew Lot and his family lived in Sodom!  Would God spare them?  Abraham and God had quite a discussion about whether righteous folks should perish with the unrighteous.  Wouldn't you like to be a fly on the wall of that conversation?!  Come and hear what happened, this Sunday at 10 a.m.

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