God's Comic

“Rights” you are

Brad Stine — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:31:45 +0000

One of the easiest phrases to roll off the tongue of an American is when speaking of our "rights". I have the "right" to freedom of speech based on the 1st amendment. I have the "right" to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I have the "right" to believe in whatever God I choose or no God at all. I have the "right" to disagree with the decisions my government makes without fear of reprisal and the "right" to get rid of them if I think they're doing a bad job. I have the...

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A Garbage Trash-edy

Brad Stine — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:41:42 +0000

All I wanted to do was throw some trash away. I had a paper cup from coffee at the airport and decided when I was done with it the prudent thing to do was throw it away. Why Not? I’ve thrown stuff away all my life and it never was complicated before. Here’s how it used to work. You had some trash, which was easily distinguishable from non-trash because you were finished with it. It could be a paper cup I mentioned earlier or an already read newspaper or magazine. It could be a...

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A “hell” of a word

Brad Stine — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:35:10 +0000

I don’t think people take Hell very seriously anymore. We used too. As a matter of fact it was one of the reasons why people were nicer years ago because they didn’t want to go to hell. That was a curse word; literally to tell someone to go to Hell was bad. Why not? You are condemning someone to an eternal existence in a place where your flesh is being burned off your skull while demons are constantly poking your butt with pitchforks. Face it, it would suck. Now hell is apparently a...

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Polite as a microchip

Brad Stine — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:42:30 +0000

In an age where politeness seems to be a missing piece in America, isn’t it amazing how polite inanimate objects can be? There are signs that say “Thank You for not smoking”. First off when a sign says thank you for not smoking the question that needs to be answered is.. How did it know? What are signs now able to watch us or worse are precognitive and can anticipate our every move? It is sweet though that a painted sign is concerned about my health. Computers are the updated...

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My body is missing metal!

Brad Stine — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:27:30 +0000

As I got out of the shower this morning I had the pleasure of taking a glance at myself in the mirror. Nothing wakes you up in the morning like a hot cup of coffee and seeing yourself nude in the mirror. The good news is it’s the only time in your life you will look at a naked body and never be tempted with lust. It was as I was looking at myself that the reality hit me at just how imperfect my form actually was. The first thing I realized I was missing was a tattoo. I have no tattoos...

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Do I have to bite my tongue?

Brad Stine — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:56:02 +0000

After many years as a “Christian comedian” I have often been asked if I thought God had a sense of humor? Well here are a couple examples where I would vote for the affirmative. In all my many years on earth I can’t begin to count the times I have bitten my tongue. Everyone has experienced this annoyance and every time I do it makes me wonder if this is one of God’s great practical jokes? Being God and all powerful, when you finally get around to creating worshipers it probably...

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I’ll pray for ya!

Brad Stine — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:12:47 +0000

There are many terms used in the Christian world that sound good but often times don’t actually mean what they say. I would like to explore some of these but since these columns are limited to around 500 words let me start with these two. The first one is a phrase every Christian has used so it makes for a good start. 1)“I’ll pray for you” What a beautiful sentiment. I need prayer and so do you. We are supposed to pray for each other as well. The problem is, (I know this not...

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Heaven help us!

Brad Stine — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:20:44 +0000

My daughter sat me down the other day and was in tears. “Daddy I don’t want to go to heaven” What, I said, but why? Here I was ready to hear her impassioned plea that she wasn’t worthy to stand before a righteous God. Or perhaps she saw the plight of so many who would never see the pearly gates and, like Paul, would rather go to Hell if she could save all the lost souls. Shortly my romanticizing of my daughters plight was soon to be dashed by the concept only a child born in a...

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A New Year Rhyme

Brad Stine — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:52:47 +0000

Twas the first week of the New Year and all through the house there were ruined new toys and a returnable blouse. The kids back to school with a long heavy sigh and momma and me without guilt said goodbye. The take down of nativities and tinsel and trees and the sweeping and dusting while crawling on sore knees. No more songs of the Yule could be heard through the air, and quite frankly at this point I just didn’t care. I have to remove the outside lights from the gutters, and being a...

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A Year again?

Brad Stine — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:46:30 +0000

Around this time of year we always comment that another year has come and gone. But has it really? I mean we have arbitrarily created the calendar year based on the earth’s rotation around the sun or something to that effect. But just because it does rotate consistently doesn’t mean we had to choose that as our system of years. Haley’s comet comes around once every 75 yrs or so. What if we decided that every time Haley’s came by it was a year? Think how much younger we all would...

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