Sam Houston was the first president of the Republic of Texas. It’s said he was a rather nasty fellow with a checkered past.  Later in life Houston made a commitment to Christ and was baptized in a river. The preacher said to him, “Sam, your sins are washed away.”  Houston replied, “God help the fish.”  It’s fortunate that you and I were not baptized as adults in a river. Somebody would probably be saying, “God help the fish.”

A man named Ray says that at one point in his life he considered joining the Baptist Church. For those who don’t know, the Baptists practice total body immersion to baptize a person.  Ray notes that he is a big man, so he was concerned about finding a baptistry in a church that could handle an oversized load.  Luckily he knew a Baptist minister, having dated his daug…