They picked someone--someone pretty desperate--to be the sin eater. Whenever there was a death, they called the sin eater to the wake to eat the food and take the person's sins into himself so that the dead person could go to heaven clean and free. For fifteen years Blind Benny was the sin eater of that town.

Dustin Hoffman, the Academy Award winning actor, amazed audiences with his incredible characters like Tootsie and Rainman. In an interview, Hoffman revealed his plans for the epitaph on his tombstone. He said it will simply read, "I knew this was going to happen."

Pastor Robin Myers once saw a sign in front of a church that said, "If you're done with sin, come on in." But then he noticed written underneath that in smaller letters printed in lipstick these words, "But if you're not quite through, call 272-3550!"

This is the story of the faith of one nameless, homeless street person. Tapes of this homeless man have been played in homeless shelters all across America. Most of us wouldn't know that because we aren't in shelters very often, are we? What distinguished this old man from other street people was his song.

"Cut that out!" can be a stern word of judgment uttered by parents correcting rowdy children. On the other hand, imagine a hospital patient who has cancer. She would be given options for treatment, to which she might reply, "Cut that out." In that case, the cutting out has an entirely different tone.