After the fall in Garden of
Eden, Adam was walking with his sons Cain and Abel. They
passed by the ruins of the Garden of Eden. One of the boys
asked, "What's that?" Adam replied, "Boys,
that's where your mother ate us out of house and home."

Sunday School Teacher:
"What evidence is there in the Bible that Adam and Eve
were noisy?"
Boy: "They raised Cain!"

What a good thing Adam had
going. When he said something he knew nobody had said it
before.

A minister was opening his mail
one morning. Drawing a single sheet of paper from an
envelope, he found written on it only one word:
"FOOL." The next Sunday he announced, "I have
known many people who have written letters and forgot to sign
their names. But this week I received a letter from someone
who signed his name and had forgotten to write a
letter."

A pastor had a practice of
leaving his pulpit for a brief time during the morning
service. While one of his staff made the announcements, he
went to tell a Bible story to the children in children's
church. One new member didn't understand. One day he said to
the minister, "Pastor, you're the first preacher I ever
saw who takes a coffee break during the service."

Pastor's Announcement
Before Offering
"I would like to remind you that what your are about to
give is deductible, cannot be taken with you and is
considered in the Bible that the love of this is the root of
all evil."

"There will be a meeting
of the Board immediately after the service," announced
the pastor. After the close of the service, the group
gathered at the back of the auditorium for the announced
meeting. But there was a stranger in their midst. He was a
visitor who had never attended their church before. "My
friend," asked the pastor, did you understand that this
is a meeting of the Board?" "Yes," said the
visitor, "and after that sermon, I'm about as bored as
you can get!"

A preacher phoned the city's
newspaper. "Thank you very much," said he,
"for the error you made when you announced my sermon
topic for last Sunday. The topic I sent you was 'What Jesus
Saw in A Publican.' You printed it as 'What Jesus Saw in a
Republican' I had the biggest crowd of the year!"

The chairman of the pastor
search committee informed the congregation: "Next Sunday
our visiting preacher will be the Rev. Bill Oaks. If you
would like to see the other preachers, you will find them
hanging in the vestibule."

After coming out of the water,
a new member exclaimed, "Good grief, preacher, I forgot
to remove my wallet from these trousers. It's dripping
wet." "Hallelujah," exulted the preacher,
"We could stand more baptized wallets."

The parson had been disturbed
by a person who was a fast reader. "We shall now read
the Twenty-third Psalm in unison," he announced.
"Will the lady who is always by 'the still waters' while
the rest of us are in 'green pastures,' please wait a minute
until we catch up?"

The crumbling, old church
building needed remodeling, so the preacher made an
impassioned appeal, looking directly at the richest may in
town. At the end of the message, the rich man stood up and
announced, "Pastor, I will contribute $1,000." Just
then, plaster fell from the ceiling and struck the rich man
on the shoulder. He promptly stood again and shouted,
"Pastor, I will increase my donation to $5,000."
Before he could sit back down, plaster fell on him again, and
again he virtually screamed, "Pastor, I will double my
last pledge." He sat down, and an larger chunk of
plaster fell hitting him on the head. He stood once more and
hollered, "Pastor, I will give $20,000!" This
prompted a deacon to shout, "Hit him again, Lord! Hit
him again!"

From a church bulletin:
"A new loudspeaker system has been installed in the
church. It was given by one of our members in honor of his
wife."

A small boy's prayer: "Dear
God, I hope you take care of yourself. 'Cause if anything
happens to you, we would all be in a terrible mess."

The Sunday School teacher was
teaching a lesson on creation to a class of children.
"Now, children," she said, "Who can tell us
what makes the flower spring from the seed?" "God
does it," answered on little girl, "but fertilizer
helps."