DAY SUBSTITUTES Try announcing this from the pulpit: “Due to the fact that Monday falls on Tuesday this Wednesday, Thursday’s regular meeting will be held on Friday this Saturday because […]
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MAILING LIST IMMORTALITY I ‘ll always be remembered, Wherever I may roam, My presence will be noted, My whereabouts be known. I’ll never be abandoned, Deserted or dismissed. My name
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FUTURE INVESTMENTS Investment analysts are telling the story of the fellow who bumped his head and went into a 20- year coma. Awaking refreshed and clearheaded in 2007, the first
YOU DIDN’T GET ONE? God called St. Peter into the head office of Heaven one day and told him that they needed to get a count of everyone who would
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OCEAN OF EMOTION Love is an ocean of emotion in a sea of expense. From Pastor’s Conference Notes, 1990
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HEAVE QUIETLY Found in a Magnolia, NC, Church bulletin: “If you choose to heave during the Postlude, please do so quietly so as not to interrupt those remaining for worship
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IMPERSONAL CONFRONTATION The Boss is talking to his secretary and says, “I’m afraid I’ve lost touch with the employees, Miss Jones. Do you think a personal letter from the heart
MORE COURAGEOUS THAN WISE Two little girls are sitting and talking about the first girl’s dog. “My father has been training our dog to protect our house from strangers. He’s
GOING TO GET HELP Once, when riding in a four-engine propeller job over Kansas, three of the engines conked out. Immediately, the cabin opened up and the pilot appeared with
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WHO’S FLYING or NO PILOT ON BOARD Ronald Reagan tells a story, he says is true, about a newspaper photographer out in Los Angeles who was called in by his
I CAN LIVE WITH THAT Hagar the Horrible, the comic strip Viking, is talking to his men, trying to encourage them before the ensuing battle. “This will be a dangerous
AN OPEN OFFER Sign in the window of a New York City shop: “Errant girl wanted.” Russell F Anderson, quoted by Lawrence Van Gelder in New York Times
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TOO HARD ON MOM A father and his son were talking together when the father asked the son what he wanted for his birthday. The boy said he wanted a
THE YANKEES SHOT GRANDMA It was a military funeral on a hot, muggy day in central Mississippi. Grandpa, a war veteran, had passed away. The funeral had gone well, the
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GENETIC EQUATIONS A ten year old boy was listening to his brother as he read about Handel’s background: “Handel was half German, half Italian and half English.” The ten-year-old exclaimed,
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CONSULT ANOTHER DOCTOR Three men engaged in one of those profitless conversations which involve all of us at one time or another. They were considering the problem of what each
NATION OF EDEN An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Russian were discussing the nationality of Adam and Eve. Each said that Adam & Eve were of their own nationality with
BUSIER THAN ISAIAH One minister remarked sorrowfully: “The prophet Isaiah wrote, ‘In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord.’ If he were a modern minister, he would
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OSWALD SANDERS ON HUMOR Oswald Sanders called humor the “lubricant of missionary life” after he quoted Helmut Thielecke: “Should we not see that lines of laughter about the eyes are
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TOO LONG TO WAIT Two friends were talking together. The first man asked, “How did you enjoy the play last night?” His friend who was making a genuine attempt at
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