Holy Easter, Batman
I honestly don’t think I’m sharing this to make fun of anyone but, to be frank, I can’t tell for sure. 🙂  I found the following advertisement so funny, and yet when I went to the church’s website (complete with promo video) I found their desire to retell the Easter story in a dramatic and contemporary was both so touching (admittedly in a very peculiar kind of way) and so funny, I just had to share. It’s Easter Monday, right – we can have a laugh about how some of our kin celebrate Easter, as laughter, too, is an essential part of faith. So check out the site if you have time, peruse some of their previous efforts, and share some of your favorite and funny Easter stories.
In the meantime, enjoy!
Good Friday Humor
We had a re-enactment of several sceens from Holy Week. At the end of Peter’s denial we had a recorded sound of a rooster. Unfortunately when it was played the volume on the PA was not up so there was silence. In the crucifiction scene when Jesus said “It is finished.” there was supposed to be a clap of thunder that had also been recorded. When we hit that our belated rooster crowed, immediately followed by the thunder.
Having messed up at the noon service we were determined to get it right at the 8:00 PM service so all was prepared and people informed. Unfortunately, our tardy rooster didn’t crow so one of the “actors did her best impression. True to form when the thunder clap was initiated it was again preceeded by our tardy rooster. I guess the lesson is we need more practice with the pecularities of Windows Media Player. I think we will cook this rooster and get another for next year.
Remembering when we celebrated Easter Monday as a Day of Hiliarity back in the last century. It was a popular Day of Hiliarity in the church for centuries celebrating the world’s greatest practical joke which God pulled on Satan by raising Jesus from the dead. There was much literature and humor published around that idea/event.