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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Idiots At Work

I was signing the receipt for my credit card purchase when the clerk noticed that I had never signed my name on the back of the credit card. She informed me that she could not complete the transaction unless the card was signed. When I asked why, she explained that it was necessary to compare […]

Baptists

You Could Be a Southern Baptist If…. 1. You believe you are supposed to take a covered dish to heaven when you die. 2. You have never sung the third verse of any hymn. 3. You have ever put an IOU in the collection plate. 4. You think God’s presence is always strongest in the […]

Wedding

Attending a Wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, “Why is the Bride dressed in white ?” “Because white is the color of happiness and today is the happiest day of her life.” The child thought about this for a moment, then said, “So why is the Groom wearing black […]

Origins

One day our Little niece Rita went up to her mother and asked, “Mom, where did I come from?” My sister in law stammered a bit, but finally got her composure. She thought it was time her daughter knew the facts of life. So, she told Little Rita how the expression of love resulted in […]

First Aid Helps

“How come you’re late?” asks the restaurant owner as the blonde waitress walks in the door. “It was awful,” she explains. “I was walking down Elm street and there was this terrible accident. A man was lying in the middle of the street; he was thrown from his car. His leg was broken, his skull […]

Catholic Dictionary

AMEN: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows. BULLETIN: Your receipt for attending Mass. CHOIR: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the congregation to lip-sync. HOLY WATER: A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY. HYMN: A song of praise, usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that […]

Church Happenings

The Rev Billy Graham tells the story of the time when he arrived in a small town to preach. Wanting to post a letter, he asked a small boy where the Post Office. When the boy told him, Graham thanked him and said: “If you come to church this evening, you can hear me telling […]

Marriage

A priest ran an ad for a caretaker-housekeeper. A young man came to the rectory and said, “I came to see about…” but was interrupted by the priest who said, “Can you sweep, make beds, shovel walks, run errands, fix meals and balance a checkbook?” The young man said, “Whoa, I only came to see […]

Old Age

The old pastor made it to a practice to visit the parish school one day a week. He walked into the 4th grade class, where the children were studying the states, and asked them how many states they could name. They came up with about 40 names. He jokingly told them that in his day […]

Boss

The boss joined a group of his workers at the coffee urn and told a series of jokes he’d heard recently. Everybody laughed loudly. Everybody, that is, except Mike. When he noticed that he was getting no reaction from Mike, the boss said, “What’s the matter, Mike? No sense of humor?” “My sense of humor […]