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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.

Comparisons Howlers

You know the feeling when, as a teacher, you try to stretch the skills of your students. Well.. alas, the results are not always breath taking. Sometimes they just smell like that. These are the results of encouraging students to use comparisons. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a […]

Contract Law

One day in Contract Law class, a Professor asked one of his better students, “Now, if you were to give someone an orange, how would you go about it?” The student replied, “Here’s an orange.” The professor was livid. “No! No! Think like a lawyer!” the Professor instructed. The student then recited, “Okay, I’d tell […]

Wo Signed?

A Kentucky teacher was quizzing her students. "Johnny, who signed the Declaration of Independence?" He said, "Damn if I know." She was a little put out by his swearing, so she told him to go home and to bring his father with him when he came back. Next day, the father came with his son, […]

After Christmas

The Original Joke of the Day http://www.joker.org ‘Twas the week after Christmas, and all through the house Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog I’d taste At the holiday parties had gone to my waist. When I got on the scales there arose such a number! When I […]

Good Preaching

Be careful what your kids overhear… As the pastor shook hands with the congregation leaving the church, a little boy looked up with a closed fist said, “Here, I have something for you.” The pastor opened his hand and the little boy dropped a small coin into it. Not wanting to hurt the boy’s feeling […]

Messages To Ponder

These 17 messages have appeared on billboards and buses in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. during September, October and November. The agency in charge of the advertising campaign said an anonymous individual is footing the bill. They have caused quite a stir. Here are the messages: 1. Let’s Meet At My House Sunday Before The Game. – […]

Snow’s Pretty Pictures

Snow White received a camera as a gift. She joyfully took many pictures of the Dwarves, the forest, the animals, etc. She quickly finished her first roll, and immediately took the film into town to be developed. “How long before they’re ready?” Snow asked the clerk. He informed her it would be at least 6 […]

Please Stand Up!

The minister was preoccupied with thoughts of how he was going to ask the congregation to come up with more money than they were expecting for repairs to the church building. Therefore, he was annoyed to find that the regular organist was sick and a substitute had been brought in at the last minute. The […]

Careful With Those Email Addresses!

Mr. Johnson, a businessman from Wisconsin, went on a business trip to Louisiana. He immediately sent an e-mail back home to his wife, Jennifer (JenJohnson). Unfortunately, he forgot his wife’s exact e-mail address and the e-mail ended up going to a Mrs. Joan Johnson (JJohnson) of New Jersey, the wife of a preacher who had […]

The Foolish Fugitive

Alliterated Prodigal Son based on LUKE 15:11-32 Feeling footloose, fancy-free and frisky, this feather-brained fellow finagled his fond father into forking over his fortune. Forthwith, he fled for foreign fields and frittered his farthings feasting fabulously with fair-weather friends. Finally, fleeced by those folly filled fellows and facing famine, he found himself a feed flinger […]