The Humor Thread So Far
August 04, 2007
Christian Fellowship Forum
The Fellowship Hall: Thread #117209
What is the role of humor in your lif...
| 1 | Jul-31 From: WizopTom Sims To: All | |||||||||
| Q: What is the role of humor in your life as a Christian? | ||||||||||
| 2 | Jul-31 From: WizopTom Sims To: All | |||||||||
| OK you silly bone souls! It is summer and as long as you have your shoes off, we might as well tickle each others' feet. Who cares if I spell "such" and "siuch." Flow with the new word. What tickles your funny bone? Have at it. A merry heart does good like medicine. | ||||||||||
| 3 | Jul-31 From: dippitydodiane To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
| I like the new poll! :) | ||||||||||
| 4 | Aug-1 From: Deb To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
<OK you silly bone souls! LOL~~Your little post here was enough to tickle my funny bone! That's why I love this place. I
especially get a kick out of posts that are meant to be serious, but
come across funny for some reason (maybe a typing or spelling error
that changes the meaning of the sentence). Father Jim did a cute one
once that really cracked me up. I don't think I'll remention it unless
he wants me to. | ||||||||||
| 5 | Aug-1 From: Brenda To: dippitydodiane | |||||||||
I think a good question would be, in what Orthodox Church do you see more laughing? Brenda | ||||||||||
| 6 | Aug-1 From: Brenda To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
I can truly see Jesus laughing when I think of the little children gathering around him. Children will laugh at little things or nothing at all. Maybe that is why some people will say: “He is in his second childhood.“ I see the laughing in the very young and the very old. Now, if you are just a middle age person and laugh a lot they might say your crazy. If you don’t laugh enough the doctor will say you are depressed and give you a pill. There is no pills for crazy so, that is what I would choose. I could always imagine Jesus laughing but not his mother. An example would be when he was lost and they found Him preaching in the temple. You just know Mary wasn’t laughing but worried. Or when Jesus would put the animals in the barn and leave the barn door opened. Can’t you just hear Mary saying: “Shut the door!“ “Were you born in a barn?“ Jesus enjoyed relaxing at dinner time on the floor -- adults don’t do that anymore. He enjoyed having His feet tickled more than worrying about cleaning the house or cooking dinner. I mean Tom, when you sing “I Got the Joy, Joy, Joy down in my heart…..“ Do you think we aren’t laughing in the Spirit? Brenda | ||||||||||
| 7 | Aug-1 From: Brenda To: Deb | |||||||||
I have been to a lot of churches and I can truly say the Pentecostal churches laugh the most. Wonder which church cries the loudest? Again, I would have to say the Pentecostal. They don’t just dab their eyes with a hanky, (like the Baptist). They just start crying really loud with snot and their makeup all running down their face and can still manage to roll around on the floor and laugh. Lol The woman that came to Jesus with the problem of blood must have been a Pentecostal. I mean those people could have killed her for being out of the tent in that sickened condition. She just started pushing through the crowd, crawling around to get to Jesus. She had to be a roller. Some church people just wait around for that once a year revival to act the way the Pentecostals act in each service. Lol Wouldn’t it be great if we just stopped waiting for Sunday (or in some churches Saturday) until that Spirit of love and laughter visited us? I need at least a daily visit. VBS Don’t people know that when you get to heaven there isn’t going to be any Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic or any other of them there “Orthodoxy” religions? There just gona be Christ and them? Brenda | ||||||||||
| 8 | Aug-1 From: Richard W. To: Brenda | |||||||||
| Brenda, <<< I think a good question would be, in what Orthodox Church do you see more laughing? Probably the Russian Orthodox Church. Richard W. (I play a pretty good straight man when I want to.) | ||||||||||
| 9 | Aug-1 From: Deb To: Brenda | |||||||||
<I have been to a lot of churches and I can truly say the Pentecostal churches laugh the most. > Baptists do too, just not during the service. :-) <Wonder which church cries the loudest? Again, I would have to say the Pentecostal. They don’t just dab their eyes with a hanky, (like the Baptist). They just start crying really loud with snot and their makeup all running down their face and can still manage to roll around on the floor and laugh. Lol > Oh, you brat! ;-) <The woman that came to Jesus with the problem of blood must have been a Pentecostal. I mean those people could have killed her for being out of the tent in that sickened condition. She just started pushing through the crowd, crawling around to get to Jesus. She had to be a roller. > Whatever it takes. <Some church people just wait around for that once a year revival to act the way the Pentecostals act in each service. Lol > I think you hit the nail on the head <Wouldn’t it be great if we just stopped waiting for Sunday (or in some churches Saturday) until that Spirit of love and laughter visited us? I need at least a daily visit. VBS> Yes, you did hit the nail on the head. Speaking of VBS, ours is coming right up--gotta get studying. <Don’t people know that when you get to heaven there isn’t going to be any Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic or any other of them there “Orthodoxy” religions? There just gonna be Christ and them? > Yes, no matter which style, we'll be worshipping in spirit and in truth | ||||||||||
| 10 | Aug-1 From: dotcira To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
To All: Laughter is a gift from God and truly lightens things up and lifts the spirit! Every Wednesday, straight from morning Mass, a group of about six of us go out for breakfast together at a local restaurant. I think the group of us laugh the loudest there! Even the waitresses enjoy waiting on us and taking part in the fun. We are all senior citizens and joke about the aging process and all our foibles. We can be pretty serious about our conversations as well, sharing about our various ministries and activities, but it is always interjected with something funny. I can't imagine what this world would be like without the gift of humor. Thank you Lord! Peace, Dot | ||||||||||
| 11 | Aug-1 From: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
Hi, Tom-- I'm the only one, so far, who voted for the last one. Remember the movie "Mary Poppins"? When I was a kid, I loved that movie and we had the soundtrack. I LOVED the song "I Love to Laugh" (along with "Supercalfragliciousexpealadochous" <spelling?>). There is (almost) nothing more satisfying to me than having a great big ol' belly laugh. Two friends, whom I have retained since we were 12 -13 years of age, both have great senses of humor and are "performers" -- I'm a great audience if someone is actually funny <s>. The best times I can remember with my family are the ones where we laughed so much we almost could not breathe! We still can get to that point, even now. My dad's sense of humor carried us all through his trips to the hospital over the last decade or so. It really can be a life-saver in tense situations. My mom and brother are like a comedy team. Sometimes my mom will give an outragous opinion and I suspect she's trying to get my brother to respond to her comment in his absurd and dry way. It reminds me of another duo on this forum ;-) I still can find something so funny that I laugh at myself laughing so much. I had a recent dream where I was talking to someone in the dream, cracked up about the conversation and woke myself up by laughing -- that was a first! Whether it's a Christian issue it depends on what someone laughts at, I suppose. I regret that I've laughed at something that was said at the expense of someone else -- it may have been funny, but was not kind and I want to avoid that. peace, Cheryl | ||||||||||
| 12 | Aug-1 From: Janet To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
| >>Sometimes
my mom will give an outragous opinion and I suspect she's trying to get
my brother to respond to her comment in his absurd and dry way. It
reminds me of another duo on this forum<< Do tell. Janet | ||||||||||
| 13 | Aug-1 From: Harold To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
Who in the world would consider himself 'humorless'? Harold | ||||||||||
| 14 | Aug-1 From: Found Said To: Harold | |||||||||
<<Who in the world would consider himself 'humorless'?>> mmmm, guessing tommy. << Mostly it was a blast. So is this forum.>> Dem bones dem bones dem dryyyyyyyy bones.
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| 15 | Aug-1 From: Richard W. To: Found Said | |||||||||
| FS, <<< mmmm, guessing tommy. That was ... me. Somebody has to play the straight man part! I figured it was my turn to do that. <g> Richard W. | ||||||||||
| 16 | Aug-1 From: Harold To: Found Said | |||||||||
>> guessing tommy. <<" Nah. He is 'tongue in cheek' type. I see through his humor. Harold | ||||||||||
| 17 | Aug-1 From: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room To: Janet | |||||||||
> Do tell. < Clue: Burns and Allen | ||||||||||
| 18 | Aug-1 From: Janet To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
| >Clue: Burns and Allen<< Say outrageous things to provoke a response? Moi?!? Janet | ||||||||||
| 19 | Aug-1 From: Found Said To: Richard W. | |||||||||
<<That was ... me.>> That's a relief. <s> <<Somebody has to play the straight man part! I figured it was my turn to do that. <g>>> Cheers! <g> | ||||||||||
| 20 | Aug-1 From: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room To: Janet | |||||||||
C >>Clue: Burns and Allen<< Actually, it's the other way around -- although I don't think your partner in humor means to provoke a humorous reply from you but that's what happens most times after she posts. Btw, where are you Judith? We miss you! <S> peace, Cheryl | ||||||||||
| 21 | Aug-1 From: Found Said To: Harold | |||||||||
<<I see through his humor.>> riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. <<Someone else?>> nope, richard fessed up! | ||||||||||
| 22 | Aug-1 From: Janet To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
| >>Actually, it's the other way around -- although I don't think your partner in humor means to provoke a humorous reply from you but that's what happens most times after she posts<< Ah. If I hadn't been having a sugar low, I'd have caught that. Janet P.S. I miss her too! | ||||||||||
| 23 | Aug-1 From: Harold To: Found Said | |||||||||
>>nope, richard fessed up!<< Richard????? Not our Richard W.??? I would have guess you before Harold. | ||||||||||
| 24 | Aug-1 From: lrschrs To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
I think the resoration of an ordinate sense of humor is a mark of the Christian. One can sometimes 'feel' the health of a church by walking into a social event and just tuning the ear to the nature of the 'laughter'. Either none, a dull dead somber coldness, or a shrill phoney 'worldly like' false front heard is often a sign of a spiritual problem in the group. But a good sense of delight in each other, God, and our world is quite often a good first indicator of both the orthodoxy and health of a congragation. Of course cultures and church styles vary, but I find this is often the case. C.S. Lewis wrote of this experience when he quipped that when they were at the pub and having a good old time laughing and all people would think 'we were talking bawd' when in fact they were delighting in a theological issue! But a lot of the problem is that the world will use laughter to escape from relaity rather than to engage it. Prov. 29:9. To me most of what passes for 'comedy' today simply is not at all funny, it has no sense of the incongruity that makes for real hymor, no sense of the ironic, it is just one verbal assault after another, one cheap shot after another. A little kid, or a preacher, coming out once with a potty mouth word in an utterly unexpected way can be very funny, repeating them over and over is just crass. The real help a sense of humor gives us is when it teaches us never to be serious about ourselves, for we know full we;; we are going to fall flat on our noses at times, and you have to laugh or cry then. Today people cry and whine about themselves too much, and so they can't have any left over seriousness for that which should be taken with all seriousness. | ||||||||||
| 25 | Aug-1 From: raven To: Brenda | |||||||||
the Pentecostal. They don’t just dab their eyes with a hanky, (like the Baptist). They just start crying really loud with snot and their makeup all running down their face and can still manage to roll around on the floor and laugh. One thing you can probably say about their pews then is "PHEW". Stephen | ||||||||||
| 26 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: Deb | |||||||||
| >>I especially get a kick out of posts that are meant to be serious, but come across funny for some reason << Serious things are the best sources of humor. I get a good laugh our of it when I catch myself taking myself too seriously. | ||||||||||
| 27 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: dippitydodiane | |||||||||
| >> I like the new poll.<< With what shall we decorate it then? Stripes? | ||||||||||
| 28 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: Brenda | |||||||||
| Orthodox? Funny? Jump in here those who you to whom the stereotype applies. | ||||||||||
| 29 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: Brenda | |||||||||
| Yes - laughing to "joy, joy, joy." That's me. Jesus had to laugh with the kids because they were most likely tickling his ribs, pulling his beard, and drooling all over him ... AND HE LIKED IT! When he spoke of the camel going through the eye of the needle, he was using subtle humor to make a point. I can easily see Jesus laughing ... certainly with the tax collectors and sinners ... certainly with the disciples. And the God who made cute animals and cuter babies is a chuckling Sovereign who invites us into His presence of Joy. | ||||||||||
| 30 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: dotcira | |||||||||
| I have had some of my best laughs with groups of silly seniors. SMILES! | ||||||||||
| 31 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
| Laughing dreams! That is a good sign!!!! | ||||||||||
| 32 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: Harold | |||||||||
| >>Like the boss mis spelling a word or two.<< Now that can really be funniey <s>. | ||||||||||
| 33 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: lrschrs | |||||||||
| >>A
little kid, or a preacher, coming out once with a potty mouth word in
an utterly unexpected way can be very funny, repeating them over and
over is just crass.<< Good disctinction. | ||||||||||
| 34 | Aug-2 From: Harold To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
>>A little kid, or a preacher, coming out once with a potty mouth I must disagree with that one. Any kid or preacher of mine would Harold. | ||||||||||
| 35 | Aug-2 From: Found Said To: Harold | |||||||||
<< I would have guess you before him.>> Heavens know. I voted for laughter is a celebration of Christ's life in me.
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| 36 | Aug-2 From: Found Said To: lrschrs | |||||||||
<<But a good sense of delight in each other, God, and our world is quite often a good first indicator of both the orthodoxy and health of a congragation.>> Amen! Good post! | ||||||||||
| 37 | Aug-2 From: Harold To: Found Said | |||||||||
>>Heavens know. I voted for laughter is a celebration of I am glad. I thought over my answer and thought it might sound Harold. | ||||||||||
| 38 | Aug-2 From: Janet To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
| >>Serious things are the best sources of humor.<< Comedy is the handmaiden of drama. Janet | ||||||||||
| 39 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: Harold | |||||||||
| >>I must disagree with that one.<< I think I was actually back quoting someone else and the part I agreed with was that it becomes crass. - Tom | ||||||||||
| 40 | Aug-2 From: Deb To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
>>I especially get a kick out of posts that are meant to be serious, but come across funny for some reason << Yes. I don't take myself too seriously that often. The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it's happened to me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-? | ||||||||||
| 41 | Aug-2 From: Martin Y To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
| Tom I do hate these quizzes where none of the answers fits!! <G> I think that anyone who can conjure up the vision of a guy with a dirty great lump of wood sticking out of his eye offering to get a tiny splinter out of his neighbour's eye must have a great sense of humour. So Christ had a sense humour and I think we can assume that the other two persons did as well. So I imagine that it is perfectly in order for us to find things funny <whisper>and even have humour occasionally in a sermon to make a point </whisper> Martin | ||||||||||
| 42 | Aug-2 From: dippitydodiane To: Brenda | |||||||||
>>>>I think a good question would be, in what Orthodox Church do you see more laughing? I've only been in Protestant & Full Gospel churches, and I've found the humor level satisfactory. Some room for improvement though. Here's something amusing, interesting that I saw recently in the phone book: The different classifications of "Baptist" ABA Baptist What are they independent of? I even found a "Primitive Baptist Church" ?? | ||||||||||
| 43 | Aug-2 From: Janet To: dippitydodiane | |||||||||
| >>I even found a "Primitive Baptist Church" ??<< These are also known as Hardshell Baptists. They believe so strongly in the Presbyterian concept of predestination that they forswear any kind of missionary activity at all in the belief that if one is not predestined for salvation, nothing anybody can say or do will bring it about. If one is predestined for salvation, likewise it will happen without intervention from anybody else. Janet | ||||||||||
| 44 | Aug-2 From: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room To: Janet | |||||||||
> These are also known as Hardshell Baptists. They believe so strongly in the Presbyterian concept of predestination that they forswear any kind of missionary activity at all in the belief that if one is not predestined for salvation, nothing anybody can say or do will bring it about. If one is predestined for salvation, likewise it will happen without intervention from anybody else. < I wonder what they think of Jesus saying "go and make disciples"? Maybe they think it means only the people who happen to stumble over the threshold of their church. It reminds me of something that happened in our church. We have an official Outreach Mission in our congregation but it's hard to convince some of the cradle roll Lutherans. Our church doors are usually locked during the week because the office is not in eye-sight of the sancutary. Those who have a reason to be there have keys -- except on Tuesdays, when there is Bible Study, so the doors are left unlocked. When we were leaving Bible Study, we met a weepy woman who seemed confused, needed a ride home and was obviously drunk or high. One of the women in our study and the Pastor got her home (she did live nearby). Later in the week we were telling this story to a group of women in the church in order to pray for her, when one quipped, "See -- we don't need to do outreach -- they'll come to us." <S> She was kidding...sort of. peace, Cheryl | ||||||||||
| 45 | Aug-2 From: Janet To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
| >>I wonder what they think of Jesus saying "go and make disciples"?<< Not much, I suspect. This is why the number of Primitive Baptists worldwide is on the low side of, say, ten or so. Janet | ||||||||||
| 46 | Aug-2 From: lrschrs To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
| A good book on the theme is Elton Trueblood's classic THE HUMOR OF CHRIST. Ironicly it is a sort of 'serious' look at how He uses humor to teach, but it does have a good point to make. | ||||||||||
| 47 | Aug-2 From: Brenda To: dippitydodiane | |||||||||
| Just ask me I’ve got a million on them….lol Southern Baptist under SB Convention (SBC) is a US-based cooperative ministry agency serving Baptist churches around the world. Then you have the Baptist Babble Fellowship, for pastors only. (Falwell, for an example). They are affiliated with the SBC. Independent Baptist (also referred to Fundamental Baptist, or IFB) the "iffers" are churches holding to Baptist beliefs but are characterized by being independent from the authority of denominations and church councils. Reformed Baptists (½) lol….are the ones that were not certain if they wanted to be Baptists or Calvinists so they declared they are both. I think they hold fast to the 1644 or 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. They can trace their history through the early modern Particular Baptists of England. Primitive Baptists (¼) have a historical connection to the missionary/anti missionary dividing Baptists of America in the early part of the 19th century. They could also be called the “Old Time Baptists”…but I might be mistaken on that one. Free Will Baptist Church (or Free Will Baptists) is a group of churches that share a common history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will, based on the idea of general atonement but they will pick your pocket for the good of God before you get out of service. If you want to see miracles happen go to any Baptist Church. I went there one day for prayer. I had terrible leg cramps. They bear hugged me to the floor and my legs didn’t hurt anymore….until I got up. Lol I would really have to say the Baptist churches I have been to are the most friendly. They hug up on you, fed you and then make you listen. They never tell the mamas with those crying babies to leave the service either cause their pastors are very skillfull in preaching right over any loud emotions. Brenda | ||||||||||
| 48 | Aug-2 From: Found Said To: Harold | |||||||||
<<I surely didn't mean that you don't have a sense of humor.>> That's alright, Harold. It's understandable. | ||||||||||
| 49 | Aug-2 From: lrschrs To: Harold | |||||||||
A preacher is also a human being, and if we place him, or ourselves, outside the sphere of common human ineptness and folly we set up an idol. The preacher in that sort of case may have retracted what he said, I would never do that, but some would, but I suspect he also wished you to go to a place you don't really believe exists, and quickly at that. That is because while a verbal reference to the sin of cussing may seem out of place in a sermon against it, or in an illustration fo sin, to some people, I think all really human people would find interupting any speaker to gripe about it to be arrogant and uncalled for. [now if the man had started cussing like a saior to illustrate what he meant, that might be another story]. Anybody speaking with passion will at some point in time, however 'spiritual' they are, most likely say something not quite right, if one has never ever seen themselves able to do that I suspect their speech is artificially contrived and edited so much beforehand that it is dead and flabby and prissy and utterly powerless. Of course we should striuve not to offend, but heaven help any who are so easily offended they can't think us human and laugh at our folly WITH US rather than stand up as some kind of plastic plaster sueprsaint against the very expression of life. Real people slip on real verbal banana peels at times. for example I misspelled a word in the sentence "God emptied His bowls of wrath on sin" in this passage, Rev. 16:1ff. [an extra 'e' in the fourth word]. After we all had a good laugh when this was pointe dout one person quipped, 'yes, that tells us God was REALLY mad at sin, doesn't it?' . Life is like that at times. | ||||||||||
| 50 | Aug-2 From: Janet To: Brenda | |||||||||
| >> Baptist Babble Fellowship,<< Babble?? Is that a typo? Janet | ||||||||||
| 51 | Aug-2 From: WizopTom Sims To: lrschrs | |||||||||
| Trueblood's treatment of this topic is the best I have ever read. That is true of almost everything he ever tackled in my opinion. - Tom | ||||||||||
| 52 | Aug-3 From: Harold To: Deb | |||||||||
>>The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it's It happened to one of our pastors. A friend of mine. He was so Harold. | ||||||||||
| 53 | Aug-3 From: Harold To: lrschrs | |||||||||
You are, without a doubt, what this discussion is about. I don't The preacher in question was not the least put out. He laughed Harold. | ||||||||||
| 54 | Aug-3 From: Deb To: Harold | |||||||||
>>The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it's <It happened to one of our pastors. A friend of mine. He was so :-D Poor guy! I might have started crying of embarassment. Was he doing the service? | ||||||||||
| 55 | Aug-3 From: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room To: Deb | |||||||||
> The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it's happened to me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-? < Reminds me of the Mary Tyler Moore show where the TV cast and crew attend the funeral of Chuckles the Clown. Mary just could not stop giggling. She had it controlled until someone read a tribute to Chuckles which said "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" and she lost it. <s> peace, Cheryl | ||||||||||
| 56 | Aug-3 From: Deb To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
> The worst time to get the sillies is at a funeral. But it's happened to me in church.The pastors were not always amused. :-? < <Reminds me of the Mary Tyler Moore show where the TV cast and crew attend the funeral of Chuckles the Clown. Mary just could not stop giggling. She had it controlled until someone read a tribute to Chuckles which said "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" and she lost it. <s>> Omigosh <G> | ||||||||||
| 57 | Aug-3 From: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room To: Deb | |||||||||
Enjoy! | ||||||||||
| 58 | Aug-3 From: Harold To: Deb | |||||||||
>>Poor guy! I might have started crying of embarassment. Yes. I wish I could remember the details. It had something to do Harold. | ||||||||||
| 59 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: Janet | |||||||||
Babble was suppose to be Bible -- but in real life I just don't understand Jerry F. sometimes. Nothing against him or his cronies. Brenda | ||||||||||
| 60 | Aug-3 From: Janet To: Brenda | |||||||||
| >>Babble was suppose to be Bible<< I asked because some folks think "Babble" is entirely appropriate and accurate. Janet | ||||||||||
| 61 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: Richard W. | |||||||||
<<Probably the Russian Orthodox Church.>> I was reading that Russian Orthodox believers are in communion with all other Eastern Orthodox believers. Brenda | ||||||||||
| 62 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: Deb | |||||||||
<<Baptists do too, just not during the service. :-) That's true. Are you back on-line now and puter all fixed? Brenda | ||||||||||
| 63 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: raven | |||||||||
<<One thing you can probably say about their pews then is "PHEW". I think they could have spent money on other needy things other than the pews afterall they don't sit in their seats very much. lol Brenda | ||||||||||
| 64 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
<<certainly with the disciples.>> Yep especially when they went fishing ... "look world what we caught." Brenda | ||||||||||
| 65 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: Janet | |||||||||
Edward Abbey "The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages-- as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already." There are several Appalachian Mountain churches that still today use snakes in their services, encourages laying hands on the sick, speak in tongues, provide testimony miracles. I mean you can not walk in and walk out the same way. Lol They have strict dress code such as uncut hair, no cosmetics (they would change their mind on that one if they seen me in the morning). Short hair and long sleeved shirts for men. Men only preach. No tobacco or alcohol. Some abstain from holidays such as birthdays and Christmas because they can’t agree which day Jesus was born on. I guess some just prefer not to have any Spirit at their weddings. lol Brenda | ||||||||||
| 66 | Aug-3 From: Deb To: Brenda | |||||||||
<<Baptists do too, just not during the service. :-) <That's true. Are you back on-line now and puter all fixed?> This is a rental, but it's in the house, so it's easier to be online more often than when we had to go to the library. We have this for 2 weeks, then we'll do some more shopping. | ||||||||||
| 67 | Aug-3 From: Brenda To: Deb | |||||||||
<<We have this for 2 weeks, then we'll do some more shopping. Sounds like a good fix in a tempo way. Brenda | ||||||||||
| 68 | Aug-3 From: Deb To: Brenda | |||||||||
<<We have this for 2 weeks, then we'll do some more shopping. <Sounds like a good fix in a tempo way> Yep, we had to have something for Matt to use to fix up his graphic design for the competition. | ||||||||||
| 69 | Aug-3 From: Janet To: Brenda | |||||||||
| >>There are several Appalachian Mountain churches that still today use snakes in their services,<< I'm against snakes in church. Well, I'm against snakes in general. Janet | ||||||||||
| 70 | Aug-4 From: Deb To: Cheryl S/L-Reading & Listening Room | |||||||||
Cheryl, Thanks for the Chuckles video. :-) | ||||||||||
| 71 | Aug-4 From: Deb To: Harold | |||||||||
>>Poor guy! I might have started crying of embarassment. <Yes. I wish I could remember the details. It had something to do Yes, I've been there. Once I actually questioned my own sanity, it was that tough to quit laughing. .<s> | ||||||||||
| 72 | Aug-4 From: KAT To: WizopTom Sims | |||||||||
| I have a rather Odd sense of humor... it is wry and dark sometimes and somepeople just don't get me. And I am a Christian <g> | ||||||||||