Interest Compounded Eternally?

Posted on October 8, 2023 by mitchteemley

market-street-mission-jesus-saves-signI was raised in a non-religious home and, as a kid, was clueless about God stuff. We used to drive by a non-traditional church building with a neon sign that said, “Jesus saves!” And for years I thought it was a bank.

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33 Responses to Interest Compounded Eternally?

  1. dorahak says:
    October 8, 2023 at 11:53 am

    Make it make sense (or cents)! Smart kid. 🙂

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  2. Nancy Homlitas says:
    October 8, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    The church sign “Jesus Saves” stayed with you even though you thought it was a bank. You’ve likely forgotten most signs you’ve seen during your life, but not this one. Maybe it was a stepping stone.

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  3. atimetoshare.me says:
    October 8, 2023 at 12:06 pm

    Glad you showed interest and are reaping the benefits ❤️

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  4. Vera Day says:
    October 8, 2023 at 12:22 pm

    A bank, haha! We had a sign like that in our town, and I didn’t know what it meant, either.

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  5. trE says:
    October 8, 2023 at 12:36 pm

    😆😂🤣 The things we remember.

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  6. Cindy Georgakas says:
    October 8, 2023 at 1:33 pm

    😹😂😎

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  7. Awakening Wonders says:
    October 8, 2023 at 2:02 pm

    🤣😂🤣- Bank you very much!!!!

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  8. mich says:
    October 8, 2023 at 2:05 pm

    I spent some time in a flophouse in downtown L.A. with a window that looked out onto the Church of the Open Door with a huge neon sign atop that flashed: JESUS SAVES. There was always at least one letter blown out, one of the S’s usually.

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  9. Phil Strawn says:
    October 8, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    There was a similar sign in downtown Fort Worth in the 1950s. A neon cross over the door of an all-night mission. Even back then, folks needed a place to go during the wee-hours.

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  10. Donald N. Norris says:
    October 8, 2023 at 2:34 pm

    When I was very young, I remember my Mom driving us to the local cider mill, and that was the first time I had seen that sign. It was on the top of what used to be a ban building. I saved to myself, gee, I have a piggy bank also. It was only later that I learned the bank had been converted to a Baptist Church. True story.

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  11. SanVercell says:
    October 8, 2023 at 3:11 pm

    Love it! Too funny.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    October 8, 2023 at 3:40 pm

    It is funny how our minds work, especially as kids. You go with what you are familiar. Heaven is quite a large bank!!!

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  13. Pure Glory says:
    October 8, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    Heaven is actually the largest bank ever!!!

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  14. Carl D'Agostino says:
    October 8, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    Jesus urges us to put our treasure in heaven not a bank.

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  15. Uncoffined says:
    October 8, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    I once asked my mum what a cemetery was, and she said ‘It’s where dead people go’
    That left me wondering how they got there, or how they knew where to go…

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  16. Rebecca Fegan says:
    October 8, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    There was this place that was an “open door” mission that was chained shut during the day.

    They opened about 5:00 PM when the people could get there to start setting things up as they all had day jobs. But when they’d left it unchained, sometimes they’d get there to start the kitchen up and the pots and pans and all the food would be gone.

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  17. Jon says:
    October 8, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    When I was a mere boy, my dad told me that in Sunday school as a boy himself, he sang about Gladly, the cross-eyed bear. Kids tend to be literalists.

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  19. Mike and Kellye Hefner says:
    October 9, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    Sorry, but I laughed out loud.

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  20. Ann Coleman says:
    October 9, 2023 at 2:47 pm

    That is hysterical!!!

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  22. Anonymous says:
    October 11, 2023 at 3:48 am

    Oh I love this!!

    We moved to Germany when I was in my 30’s and I was shocked to learn that prostitution is legal here. So in various places there are buildings with huge neon hearts in the window. My kids thought they were ‘love houses’ and one of them would always whine in the back of the car, why can’t we go and visit a love house one day Mama?

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