"Praise the lord, pass the collection plate" was a reference to a skit Terry and I used to do on our radio show, White Label Humour. It featured the Reverend Elrond Swankert and his organ playing wife Sister Carol. Sister Carol's job was two fold: to play the organ and cry on cue. The Reverend Elrond Swankert would deliver some sort of hell-fire-and-brimstone sermon and occasionally punctuate it with "praise the Lord and pass the collection plate".