Humor | Perspective | Understanding
DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS The two members of the Hell’s Angels brought their motorcycles to a stop at a crosswalk. A nun with her arm in a sling crossed in front of […]
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Humor
Disobedience | Guilt | Humor | Obedience | Temptation
WILL POWER/CONSCIENCE A man consulted a psychiatrist. He complained, “I’ve been misbehaving, Doc, and my conscience is troubling me.” The doctor asked, “And you want something that will strengthen your
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Business | Humor | Labor | Leisure | Motivation
ADJUSTING TO THE REALITIES A factory manager found that production was being hampered by the tardiness of his people returning from the lunch hour. When the whistle blew few were
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Communication | Failure | Humor | Perspective
ASSUMPTIONS We all find ourselves operating on assumptions from time to time that prove to be all wrong from square one. Like the new salesman who was carrying an important-looking
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Care | Humor | Prayer | Youth
PRAYERS WITH MORE POWER A young minister, learning that a lady from Boston who was visiting in town had been taken ill, stopped in to cheer her up. “I’d like
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Business | Humor | Loneliness
GOING OUT OF BUSINESS This sign appeared in the window of a store in New York City: “Don’t be fooled by imitators who claim to be going out of business.
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Appearance | Humor | Position | Value
IDENTITY CRISIS One day Charlie Brown was talking to his friend, Linus, about the pervasive sense of inadequacy he feels all the time. Charlie moaned, “You see, Linus, it goes
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Fear | Humor | Motivation
MOTIVATION FOR SELLING After his tour of duty overseas Corporal Jones was sent to a stateside induction center where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially GI insurance.
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Complain | Evangelism | Humor | Obedience | Salvation | Service
EVANGELISM METHODS One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of Evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord. Moody’s reply was “I agree with you.
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Apathy | Communication | Humor | Speech | Understanding
LISTENING President Franklin D. Roosevelt got tired of smiling that big smile and saying the usual things at all those White House receptions. So, one evening he decided to find
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Appearance | Blessing | Evangelism | Humor | Joy
TOUGH TO HIDE YOUR TRUE FEELINGS An Easterner who walked into a Western saloon was amazed to see a dog sitting at a table playing poker with three men. He
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Faith | Humor | Risk | Stewardship | Submission | Trust
LIFE AND RISK A newspaperman, visiting the Raider’s football camp a few years ago had just come from the Jack London Historic Monument. He read a sample of London’s prose
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Burden | Children | Commitment | Humor | Service
IT’S HARD TO HELP SOME PEOPLE Two Cub Scouts, whose younger brother had fallen into the lake, rushed home to mother with tears in their eyes. One of them sobbed,
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Discipleship | Humor | Obedience | Sanctification/ Motivation | Sin
THE POWERFUL MOTIVATION OF HABITS Farmer Brown and farmer Green were neighbors. Farmer Brown had a dog that loved to chase cats. Farmer Green had a cat that hated dogs.
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Conscience | Deceit | Disobedience | Honesty | Humor | Sin
THE LITTLE VOICE INSIDE Mark Twain once told the following story in a speech he delivered on “honesty.” When I was a boy, I was walking along a street and
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Humor | Perspective | Sports | Understanding
JUMPING TO CONCLUSION It seems these two men came from Arctic cold regions where they had lived all their life, flying into Miami airport. On the bus to the hotel,
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Children | Disobedience | Humor | Sin
THE DEEPER MEANING OF POISON IVY At a summer religious camp for children one of the counselors was leading a discussion on the purpose God had for everything He created.
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Christ | Christmas | Humor | Incarnation | Worldliness
UNDERSTANDING THE MODERN CHRISTMAS SCENE I liked the cartoon by Guindon that showed a weary lady shopper resting for a moment with her arms filled with packages. She is in
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Children | Christ | Christmas | Humor | Incarnation
A CHILD’S UNDERSTANDING OF CHRISTMAS Walter Lauster of the Naples, Florida Church of God, sent in the following true story from his own experience: I was sitting in my office
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Children | Christ | Christmas | Humor | Incarnation
WHAT YOU DO WITH JESUS AT CHRISTMAS The kids were putting on the Christmas play. To show the radiance of the new born Savior an electric light bulb was hidden
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