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Long sermons can be deadly

Every once in a while you find something humorous in the Bible such as this passage from the twentieth chapter of Acts:

[9] And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
[10] And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
[11] When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
[12] And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on April 2, 2014 at 10:22am

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... {CLUNK!!!}
Huh? Huh? What, what happened?!?

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Permalink Reply by Idaho Spud on April 2, 2014 at 12:02pm

Ha ha ha ha!

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Permalink Reply by Idaho Spud on April 2, 2014 at 12:02pm

I often fell asleep in church. When I was about 30, I was sleeping and one of the head honchos came down from the stand, woke me up, and said "If you want to sleep, do it in your bedroom."

Wish I had taken his advice and never returned, but unfortunately, it took another 25 years.