At the beginning of a children's sermon, one girl came up to the altar wearing a beautiful dress. As the children are sitting down around the pastor,the pastor leans over and says to the girl, "That is a very pretty dress. Is it  your Easter dress?" The girl replies almost directly into the pastor's clip-on mike, "Yes.... and my Mom says it's a bitch to iron."

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After church one Sunday morning, a mother commented: "The choir was awful this morning." The father  commented: "The sermon was too long." Their 7-yr. old daughter added: "You've got to admit it was a pretty good show for a dime."

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After listening restlessly to a long and tedious sermon, a 6-year-old boy asked his father what the preacher did the rest of the week. "Oh, he's a very busy man," the father replied. "He takes care of church  business, visits the sick, ministers to the poor.... And then he has to have time to rest up. Talking in public isn't an easy job, you  now."The boy thought about that, then said, "Well, listening ain't easy, either."

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I had been teaching my three-year-old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime she repeated it after me.  One night she said she was ready to solo. I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer. "Lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us some e-mail. Amen."
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A mother was watching her four-year-old child playing outside in a small plastic pool half filled with water. He was happily walking back and forth across the pool, making big splashes.  Suddenly, he stopped, stepped out of the pool, and began to scoop water out of the pool with a pail."Why are you  pouring the water out, Johnny?" the mother asked. 'Cause my teacher said Jesus walked on water, and this water won't work." The boy replied.

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FMC member Pastor Stan Holdeman of Garden Baptist Church in Indiana went to an informal church gathering, wearing shorts and a T-shirt. A little girl from a newly religious family; who had seen him only in his Sunday morning suits loudly proclaimed: "Hey, preacher, you sure look different with clothes on!"

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 A four-year-old Catholic boy was playing with a four-year-old Protestant girl in a children's pool in the backyard. They splashed each other, got very wet and decided to take their wet clothes off.  The little boy looked at the little girl and said, "Golly, I didn't know there was that much difference between Catholics and Protestants

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A man was telling about his four year old daughter still having a hard time grasping the concept of marriage.  He got out the wedding album, thinking visual images would help, and explained the entire service to her.  Once  finished, he asked if she had any questions, and she replied, "Oh. I see. Is that when Mommy came to work for us?"
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A mother took her three-year-old daughter to church for the first time.  The church lights were lowered, and then the choir came down the aisle, carrying lighted candles. All was quiet until the little one started to sing  in a loud voice, "Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you..."

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