Three boys are in the school yard bragging about their fathers. The first boy says, "My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a poem, they give him $50."

     The second boy says, "That's nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a song, they give him $100."

     The third boy says, "I got you both beat. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a sermon... and it takes eight people to collect all the money!"

     Rev. Warren J. Keating, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Yuma, AZ, says that the best prayer he ever heard was: "Lord, please make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am."

     A Woman went to the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas
cards. "What Denomination?" Asked the clerk.

     "Oh, good heavens! Have we come to this?" said the woman. "Well
give me 50 Baptist and 50 Catholic ones."

     On a very cold, snowy Sunday in February, only the pastor and one
farmer arrived at the village church. The pastor said, "Well, I guess we won't have a service today."

     The farmer replied: "Heck, if even only one cow shows up at feeding time, I feed it."

     During a children's sermon, Rev. Larry Eisenberg asked the children what "Amen" means.

     A little boy raised his hand and said: "It means Tha-tha-tha- that's all folks!"

     A student was asked to list the 10 Commandments in any order. His
answer? "3, 6, 1, 8, 4, 5, 9, 2, 10, 7".

     I was at the beach with my children when my four-year-old son ran up to me, grabbed my hand, and led me to the shore, where a sea gull lay dead in the sand. "Mommy, what happened to him?" he asked.

     "He died and went to Heaven," I replied.

     My son thought a moment and then said, "And God threw him back down?"

     Bill Keane, creator of the Family Circus cartoon strip tells of a time when he was penciling one of his cartoons and his son Jeffy said, "Daddy, how do you know what to draw?"

     I said, "God tells me."

     Jeffy said, "Then why do you keep erasing parts of it?"

     After the church service, a little boy told the pastor: "When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money."

     "Well, thank you," the pastor replied, "but why?"

     "Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've
ever had."

     My wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to our six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?"

     "I wouldn't know what to say," she replied.

     "Just say what you hear Mommy say," my wife said.

     Our daughter bowed her head and said: "Dear Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"