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Note: what follows is not the approach we’re teaching in the Gospel Conversations class, but it’s good for a chuckle from the Jollyblogger:

The truth of the gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine… Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others and beat it into their heads continually. — Martin Luther

Just for fun… any captions you’d add to this picture?

“Have you ever heard of the Four Spiritual Laws?”

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If you have over 200 friends, live near a world famous transportation hub and have some time on your hands then this would be a great April Fools Day prank!

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I read this article and thought it would be a perfect opportunity to laugh especially for those who are not “A” type personalities. Enjoy.

MY WEIRD CLAIM TO FAME
By Saralee Perel

The neat thing about being a writer is if you’re terrified of talking to people, you never have to.

Or so I thought.

A woman from a Boston radio station left a message about interviewing me. I begged my husband, Bob, “Please call and say I’m disabled (true) and can’t talk (lie).” He refused.

“What should I wear?”

“It’s over the phone.” He sat me down. “Sweets, just be yourself.”

Not good advice. Being myself would mean responding to every question with, “Can I hang up now?”

The interviewer was intimidating. “Today we have author – …

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YOU MIGHT BE A PASTOR IF…

You’ve waded in a creek wearing a necktie.

You’ve ever dreamed you were preaching only to waken and discover that you were.

You’d rather negotiate with terrorists than the church organist.

You see a picnic as no picnic.

You’ve ever wanted to fire the church and form a congregation search committee.

You’ve been tempted to take up an offering at a family reunion.

You’ve ever wanted to give the sound man some feedback of your own.

You’ve ever wanted to lay hands on a deacon, and you didn’t mean praying for him.

You often feel like you are herding cats instead of shepherding sheep.

Your sermons have a happy ending…everyone’s happy when it ends.

You’ve never preached on TV, because your wife made you get …

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This TV anchor earns her pay…

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Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Ms. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child.

Smiling sweetly, the teacher said, “Bobby, when I was a child, I was told if I made ugly faces, it would freeze and I would stay like that.”

Bobby looked up and innocently replied, “Well, Ms. Smith, you can’t say you weren’t warned.”

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Yet another twist on the great advice of Never Read a Bible Verse…

Check out the masthead banner on this site. Now take a look at Luke 4:7 in context.

HT: Melinda Penner

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Sometimes we are surprised by things that we find in the Bible that we didn’t know were there. But sometimes we are even more surprised to find that things we thought were in the Bible but actually aren’t. My all-time favorite is this one…

God helps those who help themselves.

I’ve had more than one conversation with folks who refused to believe that the Bible didn’t include that verse.

What are yours?

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