Monday chuckles
March 31, 2025
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Sunday funnies
March 30, 2025You might be in a country church if…
…four generations of the same family sit together at worship.
…people wonder why Noah let those two coyotes on the ark.
…the preacher asks Bubba to help take up the offering, and five guys stand up.
…opening day of hunting season is an official church holiday.
…the choir is known as the O.K. Chorale.
…the sermon is about Jesus feeding the five thousand, and folks want to know whether the fish were bass or catfish.
…baptism is referred to as “branding.”
…finding and returning lost sheep are more than just a parable.
…high notes on the organ set the dogs to howling.
…the final benediction is, “Y’all come back now, hear?”
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Sunday musical offering
March 30, 2025When memory fades and recognition falters,
When eyes we love grow dim, and minds, confused,
Speak to our souls of love that never alters;
Speak to our hearts by pain and fear abused.
O God of life and healing peace, empower us
With patient courage, by Your graced infused.
As frailness grows, and youthful strengths diminish
In weary arms, which worked their earnest fill,
Your aging servants labor now to finish
Their earthly tasks, as fits Your mystery’s will.
We grieve their waning, yet rejoice, believing
Your arms, unwearied, shall uphold us still.
Within Your Spirit, goodness lives unfading;
The past and future mingle into one.
All joys remain, unshadowed light pervading,
No valued deed will ever be undone.
Your mind enfolds all finite acts and offerings.
Held in Your heart, our deathless life is won.
When memory fades and recognition falters,
Your arms, unwearied, shall uphold us still.
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Caturday funnies — children’s literature edition
March 29, 2025
FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS
RAPUNZEL
CHICKEN LITTLE
BLACK BEAUTY
HANSEL AND GRETEL
THE FROG PRINCE
SLEEPING BEAUTY
CINDERELLA
LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS
THE WIZARD OF OZ
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
BAMBI
LITTLE WOMEN
HARRY POTTER
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
PUSS IN BOOTS
THE SECRET GARDEN
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON
THE HORSE AND HIS BOY
SNOW WHITE
THUMBELINA
THE SNOW QUEEN
WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD
THE UGLY DUCKLING
HEIDI
THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
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Happy Caturday
March 29, 2025
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Friday chuckles — troglodyte edition
March 28, 2025
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Friday happy dance
March 28, 2025
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Put on a happy face
March 27, 2025
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Today’s cultural moment
March 27, 2025
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I can’t brain today, I have the dumb
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