And just what as the Reverend Billy H. Burris thinking on that day?Sign spotted at Praise Assembly of God in Springfield, Missouri. HT: DocLarry at Lost Chord [tags]BlogRodent, church, praise-assembly, assembly-of-god, assemblies-of-god, church-sign, funny, humerous, marijuana, pot, reefer, stoner, drugs[/tags]
Blake Bergstrom, pitched tents, and the fake FCC fine
Remember the “pitch his tents” sermon by Blake Bergstrom? No, tell me you haven’t forgotten about the youth pastor who insisted that Lot pinched his bosom … several times–and then nearly passed out from embarassment. Well, then refresh your memory over at “When sermons go awry“, first, because the followup here is…
When worship goes awry…
Okay, okay, okay. I know. This is a day of tragedy and mourning for my lost and beloved RodentMobile. But blame it on Travis Johnson. He posted a link to the “Concerned pastor” voicemail Trent Fuller released on the GraceHead blog, and I badly needed the humor. Perhaps you do,…
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F-bombs, poets, and church. Or, “When church goes intentionally awry!”
First, I blogged about Blake Bergstrom and his hilarious attempt to have Lot say “pitch his tents.” Then we had John Ortberg entreating: “Let everything that has breasts, praise the Lord,” along with William Willimon’s story of an evangelist unintentionally preaching the shorts off a church-skipper. On the time-worn religious…
When sermons go awry, revisited
As I shared Blake Bergstrom’s “pitch his tents” experience with coworkers at Christianity Today (especially Preaching Today, where they got a big vicarious and empathetic kick out of it) I jokingly bemoaned the lack of well-known and well-salted preachers who had the grace to let their verbal gaffes get out…
When sermons go awry…
Okay, I wasn’t going to post merely frivolous stuff here, but this is far too precious to pass up. You who preach … well. If you gotta slip up, go big. Here’s a clip below of poor high school pastor Blake Bergstrom, who tried to work his way around a…
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