Business | Humor | Perspective | Short Shorts
UNFINISHED FURNITURE A sign in a Christmas tree lot the day after Christmas: We sell unfinished furniture!
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Endurance | Humor | Love | Marriage | Perseverance
LONG TERM COMMITMENT A young couple were preparing to marry and assured each other of how hard they would both work to see this marriage last. They would be willing
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Communication | Humor | Perspective | Tradition | Understanding
LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND I must confess that I have spent little time in this part of the United States. Here are a few cute stories that will hopefully portray
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Care | Excuses | Gift | Humor | Stewardship | Technology
MORE BLESSED TO GET? Jim Taylor, pastor of Tri-Community Christian Fellowship in Oracle, AZ, wrote in the November/December, 1989 issue of Charisma of an interesting experiment with some of the
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Children | Church | Humor | Perspective | Understanding
KID’S CONCERNS Here are some letters kids wrote to their ministers. . . Dear Minister: I know that God loves everybody, but he never met my sister. Dear Minister: I
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Courage | Excuses | Failure | Faith | Fear | Hesitation | Humor | Thinking
COLD FEET “Psychiatrists say that in the process of thinking, blood is drawn from the feet to the brain, suggesting that this may explain why, when we think very long
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Appearance | Care | Church | Clothes | Humor | Motivation | Pride | Worship
CLOTHES MAKE MAN AND DETERMINE THE CHURCH A Methodist Church tried to get a man to attend, but he never did. “Why don’t you come?” the minister asked, and the
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Appealing Talk | Church | Churches | Humor | Intelligence | Knowledge | Wisdom
COLSON’S CHANGE In July, 1984 Charles Colson was speaking at a Baptist gathering. He told of his change from being an Episcopalian to becoming a Baptist. He had considered a
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Appealing Talk | Appearance | Deceit | Deferral | Humor | Knowledge | Presentations | Questions
“ASK HIM!” A young trial lawyer had developed a reputation for himself within a very short time as being an accomplished and shrewd attorney. His court room techniques had been
Art And Music | Forced Commitments | Humor | Money | Motivation | Praise | Stewardship
THE RIGHT SONG PREACHER TO ORGANIST – “When I finish my sermon, I’ll ask for all those in the congregation who want to contribute four hundred dollars toward the church’s
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Blessing | Honesty | Humor | Obedience | Reward | Rewards
HONESTY PAYS One of two women who were riding on a bus suddenly realized she hadn’t paid her fare. “I’ll go right up and pay it,” she said. “Why bother?”
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Choice | Committees | Compromise | Decisions | Failure | Humor | Weakness
BRANDED A certain family had become fed up with the noise and traffic of the city and decided to move to the country – to try life in the wide
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Appreciation | Busyness | Humor | Rest | Rushed | Time | Touring | Weakness
INSIDE AND OUT A tourist on a rush tour of Europe screeched to a stop in front of Chartres Cathedral, jumped out, and called to his wife, “You take the
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Busyness | Frustration | Humor | Hurry | Patience | Rest | Time
GOD’S NOT IN A HURRY! One day a friend of Phillip Brooks, a great preacher of another generation, called on him and found him impatiently pacing the floor. He asked
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Children | Humor | Patience | Perspective | Preaching | Time | Waiting
LONG-WINDED DRIVING We were driving to visit Grandma and Grandpa for the Christmas holidays. Since they live in Illinois and we live in Minnesota, the drive down can become quite
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Children | Humor | Patience | Perspective | Time | Understanding | Waiting
LONG TERM DRIVING A little boy was riding along with his father from New Mexico to Colorado. They were traveling 250 miles to go fishing. After about fifty miles the
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Early | Humor | Late | Materialism | Procrastination | Ready | Time | Women
NEVER TOO EARLY Bob called his wife from work in the middle of the afternoon. “I am able to get two tickets for the show we wanted to see. It’s
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Humor | Law | Short Shorts
LAWYERS: A lawyer is someone who writes a 30 page document and calls it a brief. (Alfred E. Neuman)
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Children | Church | Coffee | Communion | Humor | Kid’s Perspectives | Perspective
OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES My sister and her children moved to my city not long ago and began attending church for the first time in their lives. They
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Compromise | Conviction | Diplomacy | Discipline | Humor | Obedience | Pacifism | Self- Control
REGRETTABLE ACTIONS A father and his young son were out for a ride with the horse and buggy (many years ago). It had been a very rainy week, and the
