RELIGIOUS HUMOR
TEXAS BEER JOINT SUES CHURCH OVER LIGHTNING STIKE !
ONLY IN TEXAS
Texas Beer Joint Sues church in Mt. Vernon, Texas.
Drummond's Bar began construction on an expansion of their building to ncrease their business. In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground!
After the bar burned to the ground as a result of the lightning strike, the church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about "the power of prayer," until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church . . ."was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means."
In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.
The judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and the defendant's reply, and at the opening hearing he commented "I don't know how I’m going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not."
(May or may not be a true story)
DEAD DOG
Mom and Dad were trying to console Susie, whose dog, Skipper, had recently died.
"You know," Mom said, "it's not so bad. Skipper's probably up in Heaven right now, having a grand old time with God."
Susie stopped crying and asked, "What would God want with a dead dog?"
POOR PREACHER
The minister's car wouldn't start and he called the garage to come and tow it in for repair. When the truck driver appeared at his house to get the car, the minister said, "I hope you'll go easy on me. You know, I'm only a poor preacher."
"I know," said the tow truck driver, "I've heard you preach!"
FARMER'S PRAYER
A preacher attended a men's breakfast in the middle of a rural farming area of the
country. The group had asked an older farmer, decked out in bib overalls, to say grace for the morning breakfast:
"Lord, I hate buttermilk," the farmer began.
The visiting pastor opened one eye to glance at the farmer and wonder where this
was going.
The farmer loudly proclaimed, "Lord, I hate lard."
Now the pastor was growing concerned.
Without missing a beat, the farmer continued, "And Lord, you know I don't much care
for raw white flour."
The pastor once again opened an eye to glance around the room and saw that he
wasn't the only one to feel uncomfortable.
Then the farmer added, "But Lord, when you mix them all together and bake them, I
do love warm fresh biscuits. So Lord, when things come up that we don't like, when
life gets hard, when we don't understand what you're saying to us, help us to just relax and wait until you are done mixing. It will probably be even better than biscuits.
Amen."
Within that prayer there is great wisdom for all when it comes to complicated
situations like we often experience.
Stay strong my friends, because our life is being mixed with lots of things that we
don't care for... relax and wait until the mixing is done