A Sign of the Times

At a Prophecy Conference that we go to every year, the evangelist, Dr. Dave Reagan, always starts off his talks showing us something that he collects - funny church signs.  I am a big fan of clever wordplay and some churches are just so doggone good at putting interesting things on their signs.  Roadside signs really catch your attention.  Some can really make you smile or even shake your head.  Here are five pretty good ones (before we talk about a sign of our own):

I was waiting at a red light today and heard a loud bang behind me.  Two cars back a car had run into the back of a van.  Everyone got out and appeared to be okay, but the first thing I thought was, "I bet someone was on their phone!"  The sign above is wisdom.  Honking doesn't avert your focus from the road, but texting while driving sure does...

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much!:

Here is a word of warning to thieves who broke into this church:

I can't tell you how many times I've thought what this church put on their sign!"

Whoever thought of this one, I gotta hand it to them.  It's pretty good!:

Long about this time every year, we put up a sign by the road in front of our house and leave it up until December.  It doesn't say anything clever.  It just announces that our hens have started laying fresh, free range eggs.  With spring around the corner, our hens have begun laying and we are averaging about 3 dozen a day.  That count will almost double next month and then will come down in the dog days of summer.  We eat all we can and give away and sell the rest.

In previous years, we had a homemade sign that we made.  After election season, we picked up a politician's sign that had been left in a ditch and painted over it to make it a solid white background.  Then we stenciled "Free Range, Pastured Country Eggs" on it.  Passersby would stop in and purchase eggs.  After they had bought a time or two, we put them on the honor system and put eggs in the fridge in the garage.  They just pick up cartons of eggs and leave money in the fridge along with empty egg cartons.  I like that system!

Our poor old homemade sign is ragged and worn.  This year we found a sign online to purchase for $20 and "upped our egg sign game."  It was delivered to our back door and we put it up the other day:

It is colorful and even has a picture of a happy hen sitting on a nest full of eggs.  The only problem is that she's sitting on some white eggs.  Our hens lay brown eggs and blue and green eggs, but I'm not complaining.  I like our new sign:

We'll have to sell about 7 dozen eggs before our investment is paid off, but the sign is already working.  A customer from last year dropped in to purchase eggs and said, "I was wondering when you were going to put the egg sign back up!"