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Posted on 02/23/2026 9:52:38 AM PST by DFG
Pastor Scott Thomas is the pastor of Free Life Chapel in Lakeland, Fl who was recently invited to speak at Fellowship Church’s 2026 Creative Marriage Conference in Grapevine, Tx.
During a spirited sermon illustration with a wedding cake, he slammed it onto the table, not realizing there were skewers holding it together. He explains what happens next:
“Cindy and I spoke on “Building A Marriage” and used a wedding cake for our illustration. To close the teaching, we stressed that if we build our marriages outside of God’s order… the whole cake (marriage) crashed! All went well… until I slammed the cake upside down and SURPRISINGLY DISCOVERED that the cake company had implanted a dowel inside to hold the cake layers together.
When I slammed the cake upside-down the dowel pierced through the bottom of the cake and traveled completely through my hand! When I looked down… the dowel was sticking 5 inches out the back of my hand! I immediately pulled the stick out of my hand and tried to wrap my head around what just happened!
Cindy immediately slid me a towel… I wrapped my hand, finished the message and prayed to close out the session in the next 5 minutes.”
He later shared pictures of the injury on social media:
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What an idiot!!!
Stigmata!
Pastors often aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.
He found some though.
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Upside-down dowel could go on my marriage description list.
OK, come on: he told it as an anecdote of his own moment of stupidity. You’ve never done something stupid? Did doing one poorly thought-out action make you an idiot?
#1. He’s very lucky that he could simply yank the blade out of his hand w/o it resulting in heavy bleeding.
Most First Aid manuals advise to leave the blade in, as a means of corking the wound, then wrapping the injured hand in soft clean towel, heading straight to the ‘E’ Room.
My first impulse would also be to remove what didn’t belong in my hand.
#2. Who the heck puts sharp, thin blades on top of a cake, with tips pointed up and out like a porcupine?
#3. Change yr Catering Service Vendor!!
I will never forget getting an Avocado pit off of a knife blade and saying, “What just happened?”
Agreed. We shouldn’t disparage someone doing God’s work. Leave that to the leftists who are actively destroying marriage as they push pedo.
Not one Young Frankenstein reference yet? This place is slipping!
Stick to snake handling, Rev.
Agreed. How is this news again?
It happened at some indeterminate time in the past, if it happened at all.
Did he yell, “Jesus Christ!!!! Er, thank you Jesus!”
I hastily tried to shove a sheet of plywood out of my way and got impaled with a nice sliver of wood for my trouble.
After trying various pliers to pull it out, I gave up and drove to a WV ER.
I politely and quietly sat while the receptionist finished a phone call she was on and she asked me what could she do for me today.
I held up my hand with wood sliver poking out both sides and asked “ could someone please take this out?”
I thought she was going to faint.
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Were you looking for your hand in the snow?
Yup. I’ll never forget the time I discovered that a spinning meat slicer blade looks the same as a stationary one.
Smart-ass ER nurse asked, “Did you charge you them for the extra slice of meat?”
I actually did answer right away (and not in the shower the next morning, so I’m proud of it): “You mean did I leave my thumb on the scale? Hell, yeah!”
(Slightly less smart nurse asked me which hand. With one hand wrapped in blood-soaked bandages, “I’ll give you two guesses,” I answered. “Careful, she’s in charge of your stitches,” said the first nurse.)
>> Most First Aid manuals advise to leave the blade in, as a means of corking the wound, then wrapping the injured hand in soft clean towel, heading straight to the ‘E’ Room. <<
Nurse: “Patient arrived with a bloody cake for a hand.”
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