I’m sure someone looked at the title of today’s message, “Victorious, But Not Unscarred” and thought, “Evidently the pastor just finished filling out [his] income tax form.”
April 15th it’s not only income tax day as you may remember. It’s also the day the Titanic sunk and the day Lincoln was shot.
Sometime back in California, a seventy-one year old grandmother pleaded not guilty to armed robbery, saying she had been driven insane by the Internal Revenue Service. That seems perfectly understandable to me.
Someone said the difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get more complicated each year.
The ambivalence people feel toward the IRS even made it into a lawyer joke: If a lawyer and an IRS agent were both drowning, and you could only save one of them, would you go to l…