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‘Let no one who is not eager for truth and peace enter here’ (Plato)

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.

A Child’s Question

This conversation took place after a grandmother read a bedtime story to her five year old granddaughter: Child: Grandma, it’s very said about Jesus isn’t it ? Grandma: Yes, dear. Child: They put him on a cross, didn’t they ? Grandma: Yes, dear. Child: They used pins to stick Him on and it must have […]

Things You Never Hear In Church

Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 09:03:04 -0400 From: CK Bannister <> To: christia listserv <> Subject: CHURCH JOKE FOR THE DAY From: PMRAHM =================================== THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR IN CHURCH: Hey! It’s MY turn to sit on the front pew! I was so enthralled, I never noticed your sermon went over time 25 minutes. Personally, […]

Hmmmm

Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:47:49 -0400 From: Daniel Lewis <> Subject: Hmmmm If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that: electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed dry cleaners depressed Laundry workers could decrease, eventually becoming depressed and depleted! bedmakers will be debunked, baseball players will be debased, […]

Wilderness Humour

Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 07:47:38 -0400 From: CK Bannister <> To: christia listserv <> Subject: WILDERNESS JOKE FOR THE DAY These are actual comments left on Forest Service registration sheets and comment cards by backpackers completing wilderness camping trips: "Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spider webs. Please spray the wilderness to […]

Marriage According To The Bible

Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 21:27:08 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Jan Groenveld <> Subject: Marriage According To the Bible Smazing what you can do with the book …. have a great day! Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, trim her nails, and give her new clothes. Then she's yours. — […]

Deep Thoughts

Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 07:35:25 -0400 From: CK Bannister <> To: christia listserv <> Subject: DEEP THOUGHT JOKE FOR THE DAY A day without sunshine is like night. A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a […]

Cats

Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 21:37:33 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Jan Groenveld <> Subject: Don't think any have missed this experience <G> Rules for cats who have a house to run. I. DOORS: Do not allow closed doors in any room. To get a door opened, stand on hind legs and scratch the frame. You may […]

God’s Work – A Child’s Perspective

Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:27:56 -0400 From: CK Bannister <> To: christia listserv <> Subject: CHILDREN JOKE FOR THE DAY Written by Danny Dutton, age 8, from Chula Vista, Calif., for his 3rd-grade homework assignment to "Explain God": "One of God’s main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that […]

Professional Humour

An Engineer, a Physicist, and a Mathematician all go to the same Conference. University budgets being what they are, they all stay in the same cheap hotel. Each room has the same floor plan, has the same cheap TV, the same cheap bed, and a small bathroom. Instead of a sprinkler system, the hotel has […]

Confessional Troubles

Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 09:26:47 -0400 From: CK Bannister <> To: christia listserv <> Subject: CHURCH JOKE FOR THE DAY A drunken man staggers in to a Catholic church and sits down in a confession box and says nothing. The bewildered priest coughs to attract his attention, but still the man says nothing. The […]