{"id":40777,"date":"2014-01-12T14:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/preachers-dont-try-this-at-home.html"},"modified":"2014-01-12T14:44:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:44:03","slug":"preachers-dont-try-this-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/preachers-dont-try-this-at-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Preachers, Don't Try This At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"
Okay, as big of a laugh as it is, I give the late\u00a0Pastor Franck Kabele credit for putting his faith where his mouth is, and not claiming to remotely perform miracles via TV broadcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also it reminds me of the old joke (of which there are many forms besides this one http:\/\/www.waynesthisandthat.com\/religious.htm<\/a>):<\/p>\n

A priest, rabbi and minister went fishing in a boat on a lake. The priest said that he was thirsty, stood up, stepped out of the boat and walked across the water to shore where he purchased a can of soda. After he returned in the same manner the minister thought the soda was a good idea so he also stepped out of the boat and walked on the water to shore for a soda. After he returned the rabbi decided to follow their exampled. He took one step out of the boat and promptly sank out of sight.<\/i><\/p>\n

The priest turned to the minister. "I guess we should have told him where the rocks were."<\/i><\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>steph wanamaker<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Pastor Tries to Walk on Water Like Jesus, Then Drowns in Front of His Congregation<\/a>
\n by Barry Burch Jr. Walking on water is not easy. \u00a0Not too many people have the ability. \u00a0Let’s see, there’s Jesus, and well, that’s about it. \u00a0Unfortunately for one pastor on the West Coast of Africa, his attempt to become the second man to make this impossible feat a reality cost him his life.\n <\/p>\n

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Okay, as big of a laugh as it is, I give the late\u00a0Pastor Franck Kabele credit for putting his faith where his mouth is, and not claiming to remotely perform miracles via TV broadcast.\u00a0 Also it reminds me of the old joke (of which there are many forms besides this one http:\/\/www.waynesthisandthat.com\/religious.htm): A priest, rabbi … Continue reading “Preachers, Don't Try This At Home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5219,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/26\/tastes_like_bur.html","url_meta":{"origin":40777,"position":0},"title":"“Tastes like … burning …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Apr-04 7:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first started watching my calories, I mentioned changing from regular soda to diet soda. 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