On the Lighter Side (January 2024)

Worst Sermon Ever A preacher was suddenly called out of town and he asked the new youth minister to conduct services on Sunday. When he returned, he asked his wife how the young man had done. “Not so well,” she reported. “It was the poorest sermon I had ever heard—nothing to it at all.” Meeting the youth minister later, the preacher asked him how he had managed. “Pretty good, I guess,” replied the young man. “As I did not have time to prepare anything myself, I just used one of your old sermons.” — “An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.” — Earl Wilson — “There has never been a smoke detector as efficient as the mother of a 14-year-old with his first cigarette.” — James Holt McGavran — Grandchild’s View A grandson was visiting his…