Tag: Churches
Church Signs
1. “No God – No Peace? Know God – Know Peace.”
2. “Free Trip to heaven. Details Inside!”
3. “Try our Sundays. They are better than Baskin-Robbins.”
4. “Searching for a new look? Have your faith lifted here!”
5. An ad for one Church has a picture of two hands holding stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments are inscribed and a headline that reads: “For fast, fast, fast relief, take two tablets.”
6. When the restaurant next to another Church put out a sign with big red letters that said, “Open Sundays,” the church reciprocated with its own message: “We are open on Sundays, too.”
7. “People are like tea bags – you have to put them in hot water before you know how strong they are.”
8. “Fight truth decay – study the Bible daily.”
9. “How will you spend eternity – Smoking or Non-smoking?”
10. “Dusty Bibles lead to Dirty Lives”
11. “Come work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long and the pay is low. But the retirement benefits are out of this world.”
12. “It is unlikely there’ll be a reduction in the wages of sin.”
13. “Do not wait for the hearse to take you to church.”
14. “If you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns.”
15. “If you don’t like the way you were born, try being born again.”
16. “Looking at the way some people live, they ought to obtain eternal fire insurance soon.”
17. “This is a ch_ _ ch. What is missing?” —– (U R)
18. “In the dark? Follow the Son.”
19. “Running low on faith? Step in for a fill-up.”
20. “If you can’t sleep, don’t count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd.”
21. There was a church that had problems with outsiders parking in its parking lots, so they put up a sign: CHURCH CAR PARKING – FOR MEMBERS ONLY, TRESPASSERS WILL BE BAPTIZED! That took care of the problem!
The Crypt At Center Church On The Green
How A Cemetery Ends Up Underground
Known as one of New Haven’s best kept secrets, the crypt at Center Church on the Green is an ancient cemetery with gravestone dates ranging from 1687 to 1812.
In 1813 Center Church was built over a portion of the town’s burial ground, but all of the remains and gravestones were left in their original positions, with the church’s crypt built to hold and protect them.
In America’s colonial era, thousands of people were buried in a cemetery that is now the Green in New Haven, Connecticut. The Center Church on the Green, as it is called now, was built in 1814 right over top of a section of the cemetery! They set up pillars in the cemetery, and built the church on top, then put fill dirt around the church to make it ground level. That left a “basement’ of sorts for the remaining graves, complete with their original headstones. And it is there still. But that was only part of the large cemetery on the Green. What of the bodies outside of the church?
Yet in true Poltergeist-fashion, when in the 1820s the graveyard was relocated to the new Grove Street Cemetery, only the headstones were moved. By some estimates there are between 5,000 to 10,000 souls still buried below the Green, although one was disturbed during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy when a tree was dislodged from the ground, and a skeleton was found coiled in the roots. Specifically, a skull was spotted just before Halloween with its jaw swung open as if in a silent howl, while a spine and rib cage remained attached.
The Churches of Jerusalem
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Though there are many sacred sites peppered around Israel, Jerusalem has a magic no other place can produce. Jerusalem is home to beautiful churches and other sacred and historical sites.
Israel has more than a million specifically Christian visitors each year. Many of them spend most of their time in Jerusalem — where pilgrims from all sects of Christianity can pray at the city’s sacred sites.
One of the churches that stand out is the gold topped Church of Mary Magdalene — a distinctive Jerusalem landmark on the Mount of Olives.
There’s also the Church of All Nations, located at the foot of the Mount of Olives next to the Garden of Gethsemane. According to Catholicism, a section of stone in the Garden of Gethsemane is believed to be where Jesus prayed on the night of his arrest. Protestants, however, believe this to be the site of Jesus’s crucifixion.
Above all, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City, attracts the bulk of tourists. Within the walls of this enormous church it is believed that Jesus was stripped of his clothes, nailed to the cross, crucified, and buried. The energy in this church is exciting even for non-believers.
In addition to their historical significance, many of the churches are architecturally interesting as well. Visitors will delight in the Gothic-style stained glass windows, the 19th century mosaics, and the structural design of the churches.