Dating | Family | Humor
LATE ADVICE “Momma, do you think I should stick to younger girls? Or should I go out with an older, classier and more experienced type?” “Son, you have a way […]
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Death | Eternal Life | Heaven | Hope | Humor | Resurrection
PRACTICAL TO THE END In Winston Churchill’s early years he often found assignments to travel as a soldier on special assignment and doubled as a journalist to various war- spots
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Communication | Ethnicity | Humor | Politics
MINORITY GROUP/ETHNIC HUMOR I have mixed feelings about finally getting admitted to a persecuted minority group. In the recent presidential campaign political pundit Mark Russell reported that Mrs. Mondale said
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Communication | Confession | Humor | Ministry | Weakness
A LETTER TO GOD FROM A CHURCH SECRETARY Dear God: It’s me again, Lord. I really try to be patient with the congregation, but . . . that’s my problem
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Children | Communication | Family | Humor
COMMUNICATION WITH KIDS One day while living in Louisville, KY and serving as a student pastor of a small church in the county, our daughter, Pam, who was only three
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Business | Humor | Labor
RETIREMENT PLANS A newly hired consultant breezed into the personnel manager’s office and interrupted his conversation with another employee to ask how many of the company’s employees were approaching retirement
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Evangelism | Humor | Zeal
ZEALOUS EVANGELIZING I heard one at Rotary today (probably apocryphal) about Clare Booth Luce and her zeal for Catholicism. It seems she was visiting Rome and had obtained a private
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Appearance | Discipline | Humor | Stewardship | Truth
THIS MAY BE STRETCHIN’ IT A LITTLE Joe Cannon (West Lane News) suggests these ways to know when you need to lose weight: When tourists say to you, “I didn’t
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Family | Fellowship | Friendship | Humor
YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN A SMALL TOWN WHEN The airport runway is terraced . . . Third Street is on the edge of town . . . Every sport is
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Humor | Love | Marriage | Money
LOYALTY TO THE END The wealthy old man was very enthusiastic about his lovely young bride but sometimes wondered whether she might have just married him for his money, so
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Criticism | Humor | Marriage
MARRIAGE Young couples often bring pastors their problems, Rev. J. Harold Stephens says. I’m thinking of the bride, a poor cook, whose husband came home to find her crying. “The
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Desire | Humor | Lost | Perspective
LOST CAUSE I found New York City immense and confusing on my first trip there. One evening during the rush hour, I stopped at a newsstand in the heart of
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Dating | Humor | Love | Marriage
ADVICE TO THOSE CONTEMPLATING MARRIAGE I was calling on one of our senior types the other night, Lillian Davenport. A delightful lady from Georgia, she told me about her early
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Care | Gift | Humor | Stewardship
PAY AS YOU GO A conductor on the Santa Fe was converted and united with the church. After he had been faithful in his religious duties for some weeks, he
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Humor | Perspective | Understanding
NOW I SEE! Rev. Don Holesapple, a Baptist preacher, tells the story on himself about the time he said he received a call from a woman who was quite upset
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Defeat | Discipline | Family | Humor | Stewardship | Youth
PARENTING TEENS I ‘m tempted to believe Mark Twain’s philosophy: When a kid turns 13, stick him in a barrel, nail the lid shut, and feed him through the knot
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Defeat | Discipline | Family | Humor | Youth
RAISING PROBLEM KIDS A college sophomore who had spent most of the school year in one kind of trouble or another received the following card from his parents who were
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Concern | Humor | Marriage | Revenge
GET EVEN Along the theme of “Don’t get mad, get even” is the story about the fellow who died and his widow expected to receive all his wealth. She gave
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Bitterness | Humor | Marriage | Revenge
BETTER LET GOD HANDLE VENGEANCE A husband and wife were having a quarrel over the breakfast table. The quarrel remained unfinished as it was time to get to work. The
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Business | Failure | Humor | Knowledge
PREPARING FOR A NEW VOCATION A man became disenchanted with the city life he was living. He decided to move to the country and start a chicken farm. He bought
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