Joel JohnsAround the Corners

Topic: Humor

Welcome Snowbirds!

Just in case you needed a reminder of why you live in FL. Enjoy! I look forward to seeing you at church this weekend, and yes flip flops will be in order for Saturday Night Service…

Seriously Funny

What is amazing about this cartoon by John Bogenschutz is that nobody ever thought of this before! What a great idea! Life no doubt has its dangers and for many of us we are afraid…

Seriously Funny

Christmas is just around the corner and we are excited to begin practicing for our special Christmas services on the weekend of December 20th and 21st. I heard today that retailers…

Seriously Funny

One of the hardest things for us to realize as a church was to be content with the way that God has made us. This Sunday we will be looking at how to have Joy in the face of Povert…

Seriously Funny

Again John Bogenschutz makes a great point about how easy it can be for people to misunderstand and misapply His commands. Thankfully, God has given us His Word. The Bible not only…

Seriously Funny

Life is full of surprises, however many times there has been some level of warning that we have or have not thought worthy of our attention. Here are some areas that we often ignor…

Seriously Funny

My good friend John Bogenschutz is one of the most creative people in our church. He is not only a good neighbor, but a great dad and has a daily comic strip that I truly enjoy. In…

Snuggie Blanket's for Would-be Monks

Have you ever wanted to know where you could buy one of those wonderful robes that monks wear? Now, as Seen on TV anyone can own one. Snuggies come in several colors and even have …

Krispy Kreme Employee Attacks Church Plant

Davenport FL. - Worshipers were gathered on Sunday morning for the 8:15 Classic Worship Service, and the Pastor, Joel Johns of Four Corners was delivering his message when he notic…

Ever Google Your own name?

I know it is a bit egotistical, but this morning I was reading some blogs and typed my own name into the search box. I always thought Joel Johns was a bit of a unique name but mayb…

Teach my smart phone a lesson

I have a pretty smart phone, Motorola Razor to be specific. It can do anything. Well, I once tried shaving with it, but it was not so good. But here is my dilemma, Why don't smart …

My New Favorite Blog

My Sister Jessica suggested that I read this blog . I added "Prodigal Jon" to my reader and he is not only hilarious, he always has something funny to say and updates regularly. Pe…

Honey...., eharmony's on the phone.....

So for the last few weeks at random, but never convenient times the phone would ring and "eharmony" would show up in the caller ID. Amy and I had exchanged many curious looks as to…

What will you do with your extra day?

All of us complain that we never have enough time to accomplish the things on our to-do list. We whine and complain about wanting more hours in the day, more days in the week ad no…

The Real Reason

Conspiracy theorists everywhere now agree that the recent scrubbing of the NASA launch of the space Shuttle Atlantis was not sensors as widely purported, but an obvious attack by g…

Hanukkah Ham

You can't make these things up. Happy Hanukkah…

Christmas Under Repair

This Christmas it seems that we will be fixing things that we got previous Christmas seasons. I guess that goes to show that the more stuff you have, the more stuff has you. Right …

Those Crazy Classics

Not only did we have a record crowd attending our classic service, but we also had quite an exciting time. The excitement came just minutes into my message when people began raisin…

Philosophy of Football

The Dolphins are stuck in a tuna net, the Hurricanes blew it, the Gators got swamped, I have reservations about the Seminoles, and USF turned out to be a bunch of bulls. So who doe…

Daylight waiting time

Daylight savings time is an extra hour of sleep for most people, but for me it is an extra hour of waiting for church to start. I know I can spend more time in prayer and look over…

Confession

I have a confession to make. Until 12 hours before our Trunk or Treat, I had no idea what I was going to dress up as. I announced Sunday that I was going to decorate my car as a gh…

World's Laziest Mom

Been very busy with some cool stuff that I will post on later, but thought this might encourage you to exercise a bit when you have no other options.…

Stranger Danger

Our church is crazy about keeping kids safe. I think we are the only church in the area who requires secure check in with photo ID for our kid's zone so it was disturbing last nigh…

Interesting Photo

Here is an interesting photo of an elderly catholic nun being frisked by a Muslim Airport Security Guard. It just screamed irony and absurdity to me.…

What was that?

Sometimes pastors wonder how well they communicated the message. Many times we go home on Sundays feeling like this is how we did. Enjoy your Monday morning!…

The Time of My Life!

Life is a clock. Clocks measure on the small daily scale but in reality, the same principle can be applied to life. The Bible teaches that our life is like a vapor that appears for…

Joel made me eat a live iguana

So last Sunday I said in my message that we all need to live like pregnant women in reference to the immanent return of Christ. However, this is one exception. Today I read this in…

Tall meets small

FOX News posts this picture today of the World's tallest man in a meet and greet photo opt. You can read the story here . In all the bad news in the world it is good to see that we…

Your house is on fire... NOT!

Not much time for blogging today, but thought you might enjoy this video of the police kicking in the door on the wrong house. LINK…

The beard debate, Vote Now!

Many of you have shared your feelings on my recent mid-ministry beard crisis. After two months on, should the beard stay? for those of you snow birds and family, I have included a …

Save the Bunny

Have you done this yet? It took me three times to do the surgery in time. Click here to perform surgery on the bunny. For as silly as it is, you get to where you can't stop until y…

Nursery Catacombs Idea Flops

Here is a link to a great article from Lark News. For those of you praying and giving to our Tabernacle Project to improve our kidZone, you will appreciate the wisdom of our staff …

Dog owners 'fleeced' in poodle scam

I got this off of BoingBoing and I thought it would cheer your Friday. David Pescovitz: Thousands of Japanese people have apparently been scammed into buying "poodles" that are act…

Idol Goes Inspirational

Have you heard the news? Tonight American Idol will have the top six contestants perform songs of hope and inspiration. U2's Bono will be the special guest coach, and I know it wil…

Praising Mantis

I saw this photo on Flickr and thought that this guy finally realized that prayer is more than heads bowed and eyes closed. Prayer includes hands raised with our eyes to heaven. Th…

Sunday Shout Out

This Sunday's shout out has to go to Gabe Dunlap. After being called out half way through the second service he wrote a song about being emotionally ADD and played it as the offeri…

Video from 2nd Anniversary cookout

I was looking for something to post that you might enjoy and I came across this video back from our 2nd anniversary. I dusted it off and posted it here for your viewing pleasure. I…

Nasally's a form of singing

Watching American Idol last night, I almost fell out of my chair when Chris Richardson challenged Simon's criticism by actually defending his nasally sound. He said, to the one bef…

Tastes Like Chicken

Apparently that is what the Geico cavemen knew that we are just figuring out. According to Fox News and North Carolina State University, (Article here) the T-Rex is most closely ak…

Untitled

Well, well, the intelligent design folks have won. Evolution is finally going out of business. I guess we can stop making fun of Ray Comfort's banana video Steve. Photo snapped by …

Great Quote from Seth

Here is a quote from Seth on shopping at Publix. "...the girl that was bagging proceeds to ask me if she could carry my groceries out to my car... Now I am not sure if she was call…

Father's Day Rolling Stones Style

Well Dads, we all want our kids to remember us and even to take a little bit of us into the future, but this is just nuts. Keith Richards, lead guitarist with the very handsome gro…

Twas the night before Sunday

Twas the night before Sunday 'n one thing's for certain, Not a paper was printing not even the bulletin. The lessons were written on the hard drive with care, in hopes that the pri…

Godtube.com

Did you know that there is a new YouTube for Christians. It is still in Beta but is up and running here . It will most likely be filled up by churches who produce inhouse commercia…

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