Village Parson

Listen to these classic excuses for not attending church:
– I just feel closer to God in the out-of-doors.
– I don’t think you have to go to church to worship God.
– The church is full of hypocrites.
– My parents forced me to go to church when I was young.
– I used to be very active. I guess now I’m just “burnt out.”
– We just get with our family and have home church.
– Sunday is my only day to sleep in.
– They pay me extra to work on Sunday and I need the money.
– All churches are different. How do you know which is right?
– We’re planning to attend, we just haven’t got around to it yet
(This is the grand daddy of all excuses).
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Harold Hill told me this story himself. He loved to tell it. After he told me the story if he asked me if I had heard it before I always lied and enjoyed watching him tell it again. It was either true or he had told it so many times that he had the details down pretty well because he always told it the same way.
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Al and Betty are retired. They have been retired for years and they are spending their retirement years in a unique way. Like many who retire, they bought a travel trailer to rove the county. But unlike many who retire they had no intention of taking it easy.
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It’s April tomorrow and we have springtime in our heart at the Pine Street Parsonage.
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