Care | Children | Concern | Humor | Self
A CHILD’S CANDOR There was an elderly lady who said to a little girl, “How do you do, my dear?” The girl replied, “Quite well, thank you.” After a long […]
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Commitment | Deceit | Desire | Humor | Motivation
THE HALF HEARTED DIET The generously overweight man got on the scale and turned to his friend and said, “Dag nab it! I began this diet yesterday, but the scale
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Communication | Gift | Humor | Sports | Thanks | Understanding
GOLF A woman stockbroker had made millions of dollars for an Arabian oil sheik. He was so pleased he offered her rubies, gold and a silver-plated Rolls-Royce. She declined the
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Burden | Children | Christ | Fear | Humor
A BOY’S PERSPECTIVE A little boy was afraid of the dark. One night his mother told him to go out on the back porch and bring her the broom. The
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Encouragement | Humor | Ministry | Motivation | Prayer
HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR PASTOR You may want to put this piece in your weekly newsletter or bulletin, if not used in a sermon: 1. Look the pastor
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Authority | Failure | Humor | Sports | Weakness | Youth
HOW IT’S EXPLAINED John Heisman explaining what a football is on the first day of practice: “A prolate spheroid — that is, an elongated sphere — in which the outer
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Humor | Short Shorts | Weakness
CHARGE! Misspellers of the world — UNTIE!
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Father | Humor | Short Shorts | Trust | Youth
OPTIMIST TO CYNIC An optimist is a father who will let his son take the new car on a date. A pessimist is one who won’t. A cynic is one
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Christ | Christmas | Humor | Incarnation | Knowledge
CHRISTMAS LORE A tramp stopped at a Catholic rectory shortly before Christmas and told the priest: “Father, I’ve been floating around long enough. Could I join your church and settle
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Busyness | Care | Christmas | Gift | Humor
DON’T BE TOO RUSHED AT CHRISTMAS In the rush of last-minute Christmas shopping, a woman bought a box of 50 identical greeting cards. Without bothering to read the verse, she
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Christmas | Gift | Greed | Humor | Youth
SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE “I’m sorry you don’t like my Christmas gift,” the aunt said to her nephew, “but I asked if you preferred a large check or a small
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Christmas | Communication | Humor | Perspective | Remembering
COMMUNICATION The pastor of a small town church sent one of his parishioners to the big city to order a Christmas sign to be hung outside on the door of
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Christmas | Humor | Justice | Kindness | Revenge
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT A lady went to buy a stamp at a post office during the Christmas rush where some of the clerks have a reputation for surliness. The stamp
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Faith | Humor | Trust | Trustworthy | Truth
LEVELS OF CONFIDENCE We were laying a drain line across a college campus as part of my former company’s construction contract. While excavating, we uncovered a power cable lying directly
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Humor | Lost | Love | Marriage
NO SEARCHING We were leaving a football game in a throng of people, and my husband, who never displays affection in public, took my hand. I was delighted. As we
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Gift | Humor | Love | Marriage
THE THRILL IS GONE About two weeks before our fifth anniversary, my husband asked me what I would like for a gift. I told him I wanted something impractical and
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Fear | Humor | Knowledge | Protection | Sports | Wisdom
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS While teaching in Malaysia with the Peace Corps, I was invited to spend a week with a student and his family. We bathed each morning in
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Humor | Money | Trust | Trustworthy | Truth
ARE YOU SURE? A teacher was having trouble with his bank. Neither the bank’s accuracy nor its mode of expression lived up to his standards. The last straw arrived in
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Honor | Humor | Perspective | Understanding
A RIGHT NICE TRIBUTE Then there’s the story of the uninformed protestant who happened to be visiting Rome on a day when the Pope was holding an audience at the
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Humor | Short Shorts | Youth
NATURE’S WISDOM Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother (Crown).
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