{"id":105,"date":"2006-03-23T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=105"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:39:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:39:50","slug":"you-are-entering-a-no-prayer-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"You Are Entering a No Prayer Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/blogger\/Funny%20Church%20Sign.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/blogger\/Funny%20Church%20Sign.jpg\" \/><\/a>If anyone showed up at my church last night thinking that there might be a little &#8220;praying and praising&#8221; going inside, they received a rude awakening when they were greeted by this sign. Who needs a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchsigngenerator.com\/\">funny church sign generator<\/a> when you have the real thing right there in front of you?<\/p>\n<p>OK, by way of explanation, &#8220;Praise and Prayer&#8221; is the name of our upbeat Wednesday night &#8220;Peak of the Week&#8221; style devotional designed to recharge our spiritual batteries so that we can run (not walk or crawl) past <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hump_day\">&#8220;Hump Day&#8221;<\/a> and on through the rest of the work week. This week, area schools are on Spring Break and many folks are out of town, ergo, no quorum for &#8220;praising and praying.&#8221; Still, you have to admit that this is at least as funny as some of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouryouthgroup.com\/funnybulletins.html\">&#8220;Bulletin Bloopers.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I bet some of you have some stories to tell when it comes to inadvertantly funny church signs, bulletin blunders, and sermon slips-of-the-tongue. Let&#8217;s stir up a little &#8220;holy laughter&#8221;&#8211;after all, it is &#8220;good for the soul.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A cheerful heart is good medicine,<br \/>\nbut a crushed spirit dries up the bones.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;Proverbs 17:22<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone showed up at my church last night thinking that there might be a little &#8220;praying and praising&#8221; going inside, they received a rude awakening when they were greeted by this sign. Who needs a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33,44,51,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-churches-of-christ","category-humor","category-religion","category-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9733,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}