“Our God is awesome”? Not only is this entirely grammatically correct, or within the typical Christian use, but likely influenced by the lyrics of the song “Awesome God” by Rich Mullins, which is quite popular among evangelicals. The flame does not represent hell, but the fire of faith, or the Holy Spirit. Terrible graphic design is par for the course in Christianity, today, sad to say.

And, as for the blank below the name, I’ve seen far more ironic things written on church signs, often accidentally.

I was looking for some phonetic phunny in the pastor’s name. I don’t see any.

I guess it’s possible that the street sign has to lean over to get a better look?

Or perhaps it’s that the fire, together with the motto, could look like the heatmiser: arms spread, head full of fire…as though the lamb of god himself was scaring you into attending?

Ehh…just not getting it.

Get out more *wink*

Sad.

I laughed.

It’s funny. But hard to say why.

I learned English in high school - right at the end of the brain plasticity period for learning languages. I learned Spanish a couple of years later and Japanese afterwards, but they don’t stick - the window had closed by then.

So if I make a gaffe every now and then, please forgive me.

Didn’t the word “awesome” mean something else entirely before it meant “inspiring awe”? Isn’t the root “awe” also mean “fear” (like the word awful used to mean “filled with awe”?)

Now if it said “awful”, that would be funny, even though an older definition of awful does mean “full of awe”.

Does it have something to do with the word “Jesus” being placed under the fiery furnace of H E Double Hockey Sticks? Kinda like the coals in a BBQ, or the dead wood in a campfire?

OK. I’m done. Time to go sinning.

And “Jesus!” is sung in a high metal vocal.

If that doesn’t work, you can try saying “Jesus!” in that voice that announces monster truck shows.

Maybe somebody needs to spend more time with the dictionary.