A little girl who went fishing with her dad gave up after about 10 minutes of holding her pole. “Dad, I’m quitting,” she said. “I’m not being waited on by any fish.”
The child’s comments may have been echoed by the frustrated disciples in John 21:1-14, NRSV. The resurrected Christ stood on a beach and called [...]

Sunday school teacher: “How many of you children want to go to heaven?”
veryone raised a hand except one little boy.
Teacher to the boy: “Johnny, don’t you want to go to heaven?”
Johnny: “I can’t. Mother told me to come home right after Sunday school.”

A boy was asked by his Sunday school teacher if he thought Noah did much fishing off the ark?
“How could he?” replied the lad. “He only had two worms and there were only two fish.”

My generation just might have been lucky. I had a “drug” problem when I was young, but I turned out all right anyway.
• I was drug to church.
• I was drug to family reunions.
• I was drug out of bed in the early morning.
• I was drug by the ears when I was disrespectful.
• I [...]

A very embarrassed woman apologized to her pastor because her husband had gotten up and left the sanctuary during the sermon.
“My husband didn’t leave because he disagreed with your sermon,” she said. “Actually, he’s been walking in his sleep since he was a child.