(Note: I've chosen to wait until the end of the sermon to introduce the button images - EASY button versus REJECT and RESET buttons. You may choose to introduce them much earlier.)

With the Super Bowl finally out of the way, we can now focus on something really important - basketball!

In basketball things change so much more quickly than in football. Partly because there are three-point shots; partly because of the trumping effect of last second foul shots; partly because the basketball court is still the same size its always been while players are all now seven feet tall and weigh 250 pounds and can dunk from the free-throw line - the score, the balance of power, in any game seems as though it can change in an instant. In basketball two minutes left on the clock is an eternity. Entire gam…