A novice youth minister was given the assignment of giving a little children’s message to the kids in front of the whole congregation, just before they were all released into children’s church. He was a little nervous, but he had his illustration well-prepared, and thought he was set to go. So the kids came down …
Ow, Ow, Ow
Pretty painful, but in an edifying kind of way.
In Which Wilson Takes a Passing Dog By the Ears
That’s a Good Idea
A guy was driving down the road and got a flat just outside the fence of an mental hospital. Muttering to himself — he was having a bad day — he started to change the tire, but nothing about it was going right. As he was changing the tire, a bunch of the inmates came …
A Rocking Chair in Heaven
Once there was a man who had spent many, many years in back breaking work. What he didn’t know about the uses of a shovel wasn’t worth knowing. One day at the tail end of a hot day and a very long ditch, he paused for a moment to talk with a young man in …
On the Internet, You Can”t Hear the Groaning
Q. What is green, Irish, and comes out every springtime? A. Patio furniture!
Not by a Long Shot
Here’s a good article on how liberals in our media have a hard time bringing themselves to use the word “terrorist” in their news reporting, the most recent example being the atrocities of Mumbai. A coherent definition of terrorism is only possible if grounded in just war theory, which is itself grounded in biblical law. …
Am I Missing Something?
Thus far I have seen that Bishop Tutu has called for Mugabe’s ouster in Zimbabwe, as President Sarkozy of France has also done. Well done for both those gents. I would call for it too if anybody cared. But I have not yet seen that Bishop N.T. Wright has taken this necessary step, although I …
Back from Houston Now
We just had a glorious time at CREC Council this year in Houston. The way our polity is structured, presbyteries meet once a year for business (they may meet more frequently for fellowship and singing), and the Council meets every third year. On those third years, the Council and presbyteries meet in the same place …
Gotta Be the Right Kind of Nothing
A very fine minister with silver hair was walking through the sanctuary of his church one day, and, as it happened, the sun was shining through one of the stained glass windows, and hit the altar just perfectly. He was overwhelmed with a sense of his own unworthiness, and so he ran down to the …