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TOO FUNNY
I needed some
supplies from a Sunday School cupboard that was seldom used and was
secured with a lock. I didn't know the combination, but our clergyman
offered to give it a try. Father Jack placed his fingers on the lock's
dial and raised his eyes heavenward for a moment. Then he confidently
spun the dial and opened the lock. Seeing how impressed I was with
this demonstration of faith, he smiled and confided, "The numbers
are written on the ceiling."
An overweight
colleague of mine decided it was time to shed some excess pounds.
He took his new diet seriously, even changing his driving route to
avoid his favorite bakery. One morning, however, he arrived at work
carrying a gigantic coffeecake. We all scolded him, but his smile
remained cherubic. "This is a very special coffeecake," he explained.
"I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and there in the
window were a host of goodies. I felt this was no accident, so I prayed,
'Lord, if you want me to have one of those delicious coffeecakes,
let me have a parking place directly in front of the bakery.' And
sure enough," he continued, "the eighth time around the block, there
it was!"
A small child
with a bad cough was taken by her parents to a hospital emergency
room. A nurse, examining the child's lungs with a stethoscope, told
the child, "I have to see if Barney is in there." "I have Jesus in
my heart," the child replied. "Barney is on my underwear."
An elderly
lady was well known for her faith and for her boldness and talking
about it. She would stand on her front porch and shout, "Praise the
Lord!"
Next door to her lived an atheist
who would get so angry at her proclamations he would shout, "There
ain't no Lord!!"
Hard times set in on the elderly
lady and she prayed for God to send her some assistance. She stood
on her porch and shouted, "Praise the Lord!! God, I need FOOD!! I
am having a hard time. Please, Lord, send me some groceries!!"
The next morning, the
lady went out on her porch and saw a large bag of groceries and shouted,
"Praise the Lord!!"
The neighbor jumped
from behind a bush and said, "Ha Ha!! I told you there was no Lord.
I bought those groceries. God didn't."
The lady started jumping
up and down and clapping her hands and saying, "PRAISE THE LORD!!!
He not only sent me groceries, but He made the devil pay for them!!"
There were
two men shipwrecked on this island. The minute they got on to the
island one of them started screaming and yelling, "We're going to
die! We're going to die! There's no food! No water! We're going to
die!"
The second man was propped up against
a palm tree and acting so calmly that it drove the first man crazy.
"Don't you understand?!? We're going to die!!"
The second man replied, "You don't
understand. I make $100,000 a week."
The first man looked
at him quite dumbfounded and asked, "What difference does that make?!?
We're on an island with no food and no water! We're going to DIE!!!"
The second man answered,
"You just don't get it. I make $100,000 a week and I tithe ten percent
on that $100,000 per week. My pastor will find me!"
One day a group
of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way
and no longer needed God. They picked one scientist to go and tell
Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and
said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the
point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why
don't you just go on and get lost."
God listened patiently and kindly
to the man and, after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very
well! How about this? Let's have a man-making contest."
To which the man replied, "OK, great!"
But God added, "Now
we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."
The scientist said,
"Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of
dirt.
God just looked at
him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!"
A young woman
teacher with obvious liberal tendencies explains to her class of small
children that she is an atheist. She asks her class if they are atheists
too. Not really knowing what atheism is, but wanting to be like their
teacher, their hands explode into the air like fleshy fireworks. There
is, however, one exception. A girl named Lucy has not gone along with
the crowd. The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different.
"Because I'm not an atheist."
"Then," asks the teacher,
"What are you?"
"I'm a Christian."
The teacher is a little
perturbed now, her face slightly red. She asks Lucy why she is a Christian.
"Well, I was brought
up knowing and loving Jesus. My mom is a Christian, and my dad is
a Christian, so I am a Christian."
The teacher is now
angry. "That's no reason," she says loudly. "What if your mom was
a moron, and you dad was a moron. What would you be then?"
A pause, and a smile.
"Then," says Lucy, "I'd be an atheist!"
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