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1.Trying to restrain yourself as the entire 1993 Houston Rockets starting-five takes turns practicing their layups in the sanctuary. They tell you that the sound of the 1993 Houston Rockets starting-five taking turns practicing their layups eventually becomes white-noise after a while. Not so. It’s still infuriating. 2. Eating fish at...
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Denny Burk, DennyBurk.com “Yes, my favorite chill-out song is ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Typically, when writing a sermon or working on one of my blog posts, I just have that on repeat. Melissa Kruger, Wit’s End “I can’t get enough of Eagle-Eye Cherry’s first album, ‘Desireless.’ That one song of his, ‘When...
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1. Sarah Young, “Jesus Calling” “I sell my home as quickly as I can. I always buy rickety old chicken coops to make my domicile. If I have the Writer’s Block, it is because there are disgusting chicken spirits wandering the premises, trying to get inside of my mind and rule me.”...
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It was a wonderful service, full of teaching and guttural singing. However, these five people fell asleep during your church’s worship service. 1. Tiffany Juaréz Tiffany fell asleep almost immediately after the Scripture reading. She was in and out during communion, but kept the ol’ eye-flaps shut like Fort Knox when...
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1. Filling up the baptismal with corn sometimes instead of water. If you are a Baptist, you remember Farmer Todd carrying his bushels of corn to the front of the church to fill the baptismal with his yellow seed corn. 2. Trust-falling onto one another while singing hymns. You fell as many times as...
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Look, we all understand. With today’s economy, it’s tough making ends meet with the income from just one job. Lots of people are looking for secondary sources of income, and some folks in the business call it “moonlighting,” which is “frowned upon” in...
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It happens to all of us from time to time. You’re nodding and amen-ing your way through your pastor’s third sermon in “The Burning Bush Diary” series when it hits you like a crate of wet socks: that boney-bag of sinews and tendons sitting next to you might be...
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Some memories will never leave you. They’re tattooed to your brain like the George Lopez tattoo on Mark Driscoll’s neck skin. In honor of these memories, we’ve done you the favor of compiling your favorite from Sunday School. Here they are, in no particular order, from least fragrant to...
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On September 18th, 1951, former presidential candidate, best-selling author and brain surgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, was born. To celebrate his 65th birthday, fourteen Christian celebs piled into his West Palm Beach home. Here are their favorite memories from that day: 1. Carrie Underwood, Country Music Artist “We had been sitting for...