[Optional Prop: A flower OR if you dare, a horned toad (rubber will do)]

Happy Resurrection Day, everyone.

“I know that my redeemer liveth.”

Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974) was one of the most famous film producers in Hollywood history. He became famous, not just for his movie and production skills, but for his witticisms, like Yogi Berra after him. Goldwyn said this about a certain screenwriter: “We pay him too much, but he’s worth it.” But this morning I want you to compare what Samuel Goldwyn said about his movies– “If you want to send a message to the public, call Western Union”--to what George Frideric Handel said to Lord Kinnoull, after the first London performance of his Messiah in 1743: “I should be sorry, my Lord, if I have only succeeded in entertaining them; I wished to make them better…