Inscribed in stone over the great front doors of an old church being restored was:
"This is the Gate of Heaven."

Just below it someone had placed a small cardboard sign which read:
"Use Other Entrance."

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A Sunday School teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took Jesus with them to Jerusalem.

"They couldn't get a baby-sitter," a small child replied.

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A woman went to the Post Office to buy stamps for her Christmas Cards.

"What denomination?" asked the clerk.

"Oh, good heavens! Have we come to this?" said the woman. "Well, give me 30 Catholic, 10 Baptist ones, 20 Lutheran, and 40 Presbyterian."

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During a children's sermon the pastor asked the children what "Amen" means.

A little boy raised his hand and said: "It means-tha-tha-tha-that's all, folks!"

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A confirmation student was asked to list the Ten Commandments in any order.

He wrote, "3, 6, 1, 8, 4, 5, 9, 2, 10, 7."

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A woman went to the beach with her children. Her four-year-old son ran up to her, grabbed her hand, and led her to the shore where a dead seagull lay in the sand.

"Mommy, what happened to him?" the little boy asked.

"He died and went to heaven," she replied.

The child thought for a moment and said, "And God threw him back down?"