Mike Huckabee returned to his ministerial roots on Sunday at Christ Church at Ohio Township in Pennsylvania.
The normal 500 congregants ballooned into 1,600 for Huck's sermon.
Thomas Olson reports:
[Huckabee] strode comfortably around the megachurch's stage as guest preacher, mixing humor and Scripture for nearly 40 minutes.
"We don't have to do anything grand to make God love us," Huckabee said in his "Sin of Being Good" sermon. "It's not like if we do something, it prompts God to love us. He already loves us."
But as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported on the event, things don't always go as planned (e.g. Adolf Hitler attacking Russia), so Huckabee improvised.
Hundreds of churchgoers formed a line that persisted for more than an hour after the second of his two sermons. Mostly they waited for Mr. Huckabee to personalize their books. Many posed for pictures with the once and perhaps future White House aspirant. A few had more unusual requests.
With traffic backed up on choked Ohio Township roads, the church had briefly delayed the starting time of its second service. To fill the unplanned gap, Mr. Huckabee, who plays with his band, The Little Rockers, on his Fox television show, borrowed a bass guitar to join in an impromptu concert with the church's musicians.
