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stay there!” Michael Lippard Franklin, Tenn.
When our youngest son Noah was in preschool, the teacher explained Jesus was a carpenter. She then asked the children, “Who knows what a carpenter does?” “I know!” shouted Noah enthusiastically. “Someone who makes
carp!” Kevin and Krista Doely Plymouth, Minn.
MARTHA F. CAMPBELL
yrus listened intently to my object lesson on John 14 during preschool chapel. I told the children that God’s love draws us in like a magnet, and then we become like magnets, drawing others to God’s love. Cyrus looked confused. I asked him if I needed to explain more about how a magnet works. He said, “No, I know how it works ... but are we magnets or
sheep?” The week before was about Jesus as the Good Shepherd. Carol George Anchorage, Alaska
When the Gospel reading was Jesus describing himself as the vine and his followers as the branches (“Abide in me as I abide in you”), I began the sermon quoting a few lines from the Maurice Williams’ song “Stay.” Emile, 9, got the point. As she greeted me after worship, she gave me a picture she had drawn of a large, red heart with “God” written inside it nine times. Above it was written “God is in my heart” and off to one side: “And he will
“Please make it rain on the garden but not the lawn.”
Quick wit At a planning meeting of our columbarium committee, the question of financing came up. Joyce, a quick-witted nonagenarian, suggested: “We could offer a layaway plan.”
Linda Carver Los Alamos, N.M.
Preaching about the temptation of Jesus by the devil in the desert, the pastor noted that today we often think of temptation as either lust or scrumptious desserts. Later in the service when the congregation was asked, “What do we want to thank God for?” someone from the choir offered: “scrumptious
desserts.” Jim Sauer
Columbus, Ohio “That’s right, son. God knew everything before Google.”
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