Category: humor
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Worship Watch Party
You knew it would come to this. Ignite Church of Plano, Texas is freeing up space for holiday visitors by inviting its members to host worship watch parties for its Easter service. If all goes well, the watch parties will become a routine part of the church’s body life. Pastor Dillon Roberts said the idea…
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Dead or Branson?
Let’s take a break from arguing about which presidential candidate is more likely to destroy our nation more slowly (at this point we’re merely discussing speed, not destination) and play the game that no one is talking about yet. Below is a list of entertainers that you haven’t heard from in a while. Is it…
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Sermon Fails to Trend
Last week I submitted this entry for the new evangelical satirical website, The Babylon Bee. I haven’t heard back, so I post it here for your enjoyment, conviction, and/or critique, if you’re that kind of person. Rev. Geoff Cummings of Waters Edge Lutheran has been placed on administrative leave one month after his much anticipated…
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summer reading
My seminary asked the faculty for a list of books they’re reading this summer. The plan is to post this list in the restroom, so students will have something to read while they’re in there (as if students don’t have cell phones). In keeping with the spirit of the place, my list includes only books…
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fun dozen
In the spirit of fun and with an awareness of how easy it is to become a heretic when you’re in a hurry, here is this semester’s funniest student bloopers (with my parenthetical comments). I have italicized the funny parts. “Article 8 names the persons of the Trinity separately and notes that one of the…
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fully God, fully humor?
Yesterday I did an interview that started with our need as “worldly saints” to enjoy the pleasures of earth, ran forward on the fact that Jesus is fully human, then spun sideways on whether or not Jesus has a sense of humor. The host was sure that he does. He said he could imagine Jesus…
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glorious mistakes
Many blogs are running end of the year reviews, so it seems appropriate to publish the top thirty errors my students have ever made. I love my students, and they’re quite smart, but they write the dumbest things. When their mistakes make me laugh, I save and savor them. I have seventy-five so far. Here…
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latest funnies
The good news is that my grading is done for the semester. The bad news is that the final papers only gave me three bloopers to add to my list. I’m now up to 75. Next week I will post the all-time best, as a Christmas gift and to give my students something to shoot…
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students write the funniest things
This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for the bloopers that make grading bearable, if not outright fun. These aren’t the funniest I’ve received (I’m up to 72), but they are the most recent. I’ll receive more in the coming weeks, which I’ll post by the end of the year. I’ve italicized the key words and given my…
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classic joke
Many of you have heard versions of this one before, but it’s a classic that all preachers should have in their repertoire. This one comes from my student, Tim Pike, who pastors East Tawas Assembly of God. Tuck this inside your Bible, and pull out in case of preaching emergency. I was walking across a…
Mike Wittmer 