AMEN, BROTHER!!!
(updated 6-8-00)

While working on a lesson in world religions, a kindergarten teacher asked her students to bring something related to their family's faith to class.
At the appropriate time she asked the students to come forward and share with the rest of the students.
The first child said, "I am Muslim and this is my prayer rug."
The second child said, "I am Jewish and this is my Star of David."
The third child said, "I am Catholic and this is my rosary."
The final child said, "I am Southern Baptist and this is my casserole
dish."

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     A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.  The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.  Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson.
     If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, "Let my brother have the first pancake.  I can wait."
     Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus."
  

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     After the church service a little boy told the pastor, "When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money."
     "Well, thank you," the pastor replied, "But why?"
     "Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had."

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     A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination and looked at the old pages as he turned them.  Suddenly something fell out of the Bible, and he picked it up and looked at it closely.  It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed in between the pages.
     "Momma, look what I found, " the boy called out.
     "What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked.
     With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered:  "I think it's Adam's suit!"

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     Six-year-old Angie and her four-year-old brother Joel were sitting together in church.  Joel giggled, sang, and talked out loud. 
     Finally his big sister had enough.  "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church."
     "Why?  Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked.
     Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, "See those two men standing by the door?  They're hushers."

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     A father was reading Bible stories to his young son.  He read, "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city, but his wife looked back and was turned to salt."
     His son asked, "What happened to the flea?"

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     A father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore, where a seagull lay dead in the sand
     "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked.
     "He died ad went to Heaven," the dad replied.
     The boy thought a moment and then said, "Did God throw him back down?"
 

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     Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to God's kids.  After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve.  And the first thing he said to them was "Don't"
      "Don't What", Adam replied.
      "Don't eat the forbidden fruit." God said.
      "Forbidden fruit?  We got forbidden fruit?   Hey, Eve... we got Forbidden Fruit!"
      "No Way!"
      "Yes, WAY!!!"
      "Don't eat that fruit!" said God.
      "Why"
      "Because I'm your Creator and I said so!" said God, wondering all the while why he hadn't stopped after making the elephants.
      A few minutes later God saw the kids having an apple break and was angry.   "Didn't I tell you not to eat that fruit?"  God asked.
      "Uh huh."  Adam replied.
      "Then why did you?"
      "I dunno."  Eve answered.
      "She started it." Adam said.
      "Did not!"
      "DID so!"
      "DID NOT!!"
      Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own.   Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.  But there is a  reassurance to this story.  If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give them wisdom and they haven't taken it, don't be hard on yourself. 
      If God had trouble handling children, what makes you think it would be a  piece of cake for you?

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You Might be in a Church in Texas if...

1.  The doors are never locked.
2.  The Call to Worship is "Y'all come on in!"
3.  People grumble about Noah letting coyotes on the Ark.
4.  The Preacher says, "I'd like to ask Bubba to help take up the offering" and five        guys stand up.
5.  The restrooms are outside.
6.  Opening day of deer hunting season is recognized as an official church holiday.
7.  A member requests to be buried in his four-wheel drive truck because, "I ain't ever seen a hole it couldn't get me out of."
8.  In the annual stewardship drive there is at least one pledge of "two calves".
9.  Never in its entire 100-year history has one of its pastors had to buy
any meat or vegetables.
10. When it rains, everybody's smiling.
11. Prayers regarding the weather are a standard part of every worship service.
12. A singing group is known as the "OK Chorale".
13. The church directory doesn't have last names.
14. The pastor wears boots.
15. Four generations of one family sit together in worship every Sunday.
16. The only time people lock their cars in the parking lot is during the summer and then only so their neighbors can't leave them a bag of squash.
17. There is no such thing as a "secret" sin.
18. Baptism is referred to as "branding".
19. There is a special fund-raiser for a new septic tank.
20. Finding and returning lost sheep is not just a parable.
21. You miss worship one Sunday morning and by 2 o'clock that afternoon you have had a dozen calls inquiring about your health.
22. High notes on the organ sets dogs in the parking lot to howling.
23. People wonder when Jesus fed the 5,000 whether the two fish were bass or
catfish.
24. People think "Rapture" is what happens when you lift something too heavy.
25. The cemetery is in such barren ground that people are buried with a sack of fertilizer to help them rise in the Rapture or on Judgment Day.
26. It's not heaven, but you can see heaven from there.
27. The final words of the benediction are, "Y'all come on back now, ya hear!"

 

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