Gender | Humor | Marriage | Perspective | Thanks | Thanksgiving | Trial
ALMOST THANKFUL Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. By Erica Jong
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Authority | Bureaucracy | Business | Efficiency | Government | Humor | Labor | Leadership | Organization
ORGANIZED NOW A homeowner in a new community went to the town’s building inspector to get permission to build an addition to his house. He found the inspector unloading boxes
Burden | Common Sense | Complain | Humor | Labor | Laziness | Technology | Work | Worldliness
CONFUSING COMPLAINTS This news clip appeared in the papers after an electricity blackout: “During the power failure many people complained of having gotten stuck for hours on escalators.”
Advice | Complain | Complaints | Criticism | Experts | Guidance | Humor | Leisure | Sports
MANY QUARTERBACKS At football games other players are far outnumbered by quarterbacks; two on the field, four on the bench and hundreds in the stands.
Authority | Child | Children | Christmas | Elvis | Humor | Identity | Kings | Understanding
WHICH KING? Two little boys were sitting in the front row for a Christmas pageant at their church. The characters of the Christmas nativity scene were entering from the back
Deceit | Disappointment | Discouragement | Humor | Perspective | Service
SUBMARINE TOUR I happened upon a friend from high school after moving back to my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. It was obvious by his appearance that he had joined the
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Blind | Failure | Humor | Judgment | Lost | Sight | Vision
BLIND REFEREES Red Kerr, the announcer for Chicago Bulls described a referee after what he considered a terrible call: “That fella must have been a plane spotter at Pearl Harbor!”
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Assumptions | Christmas | Failure | Friends | Friendship | Humor | Memory | Remembering | Responses | Weakness
MYSTERIOUS CHRISTMAS CARDS A university professor from Salt Lake City conducted an experiment at Christmas time a few years ago. He randomly selected six hundred names from telephone directories from
Atonement | Children | Christ | Christmas | Humor | Incarnation | Manger | Understanding
MARY’S LITTLE LAMB Another little girl was taking all the figures out of the box and listing them off, “Here’s Mary and Joseph and the baby Jesus and the wise
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Children | Christ | Christmas | Deity | Humor | Incarnation | Jesus
IT’S A GOD A group of first graders decided to produce their very own Christmas program. They produced their own updated Nativity Story. All the major characters were there —
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Christmas | Cooking | Failure | Food | Humor | Mistakes | Poetry | Trial
THE COOK BEFORE CHRISTMAS ‘ Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house Roared the flames from my kitchen Too many to douse My oven exploded I started
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Christmas | Creativity | Desire | Gifts | Humor | Money | Perseverance | Requests | Solutions
WATCH OUT A certain little boy wanted a watch. Day after day he begged his parents about getting a watch. His parents did not see the real need and tried
Children | Christmas | Family | Humor | Incarnation
PARK THE HERALD ANGELS In the midst of practicing Christmas carols for her Sunday school program, our four-year-old seriously noted, “I don’t know where we’re going to PARK all those
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Children | Christmas | Desire | Family | Humor | Money
SANTA LIKES DADDY Acting bashful, our three-year-old didn’t know what to say to Santa. Her daddy suggested she ask him for educational toys: a globe, Lincoln Logs, a children’s dictionary,
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Children | Christmas | Family | Humor | Perspective | Weather
MISSING ALL THE WEATHER As a Midwest snowstorm swirled around us, I sighed wistfully to our six-year-old, “Your grandparents are in sunny Florida, where it’s warm and the grass is
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Children | Church | Family | Gift | Humor
SMELLS LIKE DAD My little sister, helping us celebrate the birthday of my father- in-law, took a whiff of one of his gifts — a bottle of cologne. “Mmm!” she
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Children | Christmas | Family | Grandparents | Humor | Incarnation
GRAMMIELAND Our son, age four, is fortunate to have three great-grandmothers and both of his grandmothers living close together. During a visit to them last Christmas, he happily announced, “I
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Finances | Giving | Humor | Money | Offerings | Peace | Simplicity | Stewardship
BARELY ENOUGH A man went to the bank to cash a check. After receiving the money, he stood at the window and counted and recounted and recounted. The cashier finally
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Assistance | Children | Cooperation | Humor | Opportunity | Purpose | Servanthood | Service | Spiritual Gifts | Success | Teamwork
THE POSITION OF THE DRAWBACK The little boy’s first grade teacher asked him, “What position does your older brother play on the football team?” The boy thought for a moment
Bible | Creation | Gender | Goodness | Humor | Men | Value | Women
THE FINISHING TOUCH OF CREATION In an article in Bible Review title “If the Bible’s So Patriarchal, How Come I Love it?” Phyllis Trible of Union Theological Seminary recalls a
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