A few months ago, I told a lawyer story in one of my sermons. It was a funny story that didn't speak too well of lawyers. One of our attorneys, Charles Patton, told me he was going to get me back. He hasn't done so, but he did send me a cartoon -- not about preachers -- but again, about lawyers. So, lawyers, I'm not picking on you -- this came from one of your peers.

In the cartoon, Moses is on the side of Mt. Sinai. Aaron and other Israelites are there with puzzled questioning looks on their faces waiting for the word from God given to Moses on the mountain. Moses is almost buried in a pile of tablets of stone -- you know the kind that is pictured as the stones on which the Ten Commandments were given.

And Moses speaks in exasperation out of the scores of stone tablets: "No this time, I…