The young minister sitting down to dinner was asked by his equally-young wife to say grace. He opened the casserole dish which she had diligently prepared from a new French recipe book and an uncounted number of disguised leftovers from the refrigerator.
"Well, I don't know," he said dubiously, not being a casserole man himself. "It seems to me I've blessed all this stuff before."
Submitted by rwharper on Tue, 12/22/2020 - 12:26am
When I was introduced to a couple visiting our congregation, I decided to remember their names by noting they were the same as those of two characters in a popular children's story.
After the service I stopped to talk to them, and as they were saying goodbye I teased, "Be careful going up that hill! Ah, but you must get that all the time."
Pastor Aubrey was walking down Somerset Avenue when he noticed Larry, a little neighbor boy, trying to press the doorbell of a house across the street. However, Larry was small and the doorbell was too high for him to reach.
Submitted by rwharper on Sat, 06/21/2014 - 12:54am
One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Johnny was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. The seven-year-old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside the boy, and said quietly, "Good morning son."
"Good morning pastor" replied the young man, focused on the plaque.
A burglar broke into a house one night. He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables; and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, "Joshua is watching you."