BRAIN WEIGHT The average human body contains 66 pounds of muscle, 42 pounds of bone, and only three and a half pounds of brain, which probably explains a lot of […]
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LOVE AT SECOND SIGHT Some folks believe in love at first sight; others believe in taking another look.” By Sam Levenson
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JUST A MINUTE A food editor of the local newspaper received a telephone call from a woman inquiring how long to cook a 22-pound turkey. “Just a minute,” said the
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FAMILY RESEMBLANCE When my three-year-old son was shown a portrait of his five older brothers, taken when they were much younger, he pointed and said, “Those guys are wearing my
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AFRICAN PROVERB “When bull elephants fight, the grass always loses.” From The Kingdom Quarterly, Summer 1990
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IMMERSED IN THE SCENERY A party of clergymen was attending a conference in Scotland. Several of them set off to explore the district. Presently they came to a river spanned
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UP OR DOWN? I am submitting a piece found in the September 27, 1990 Minneapolis Star Tribune that might be appropriate for Parables Etc. “The oxymoron of the week award
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GOOD, NOT GREAT One Sunday morning after the service, a woman came up to the pastor and thanked him for the encouraging sermon he had preached. In response he said,
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THE UNGRATEFUL PIG A group of small boys at Sunday School listened intently as the teacher told them the parable of the Prodigal Son. After emphasizing the disagreeable attitude of
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DAY OF PLENTY Bless, O Lord, These delectable vittles. May they add to Thy glory And not to our middles. By Yvonne Wright, from Reader’s Digest, November, 1988
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti from Great Quotes and Illustrations, compiled by George Sweeting,
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CRY-BABIES Our friend Lynda Pearce says she never regrets taking a couple years off to care for her new baby. “I thought the crying and whining would drive me crazy
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WATCH OUT FOR JESUS A local newspaper told an anecdote about a burglar who stalked the neighborhood watching for homes left unguarded by people leaving for vacation. He watched as
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UNWRAPPING CHRISTMAS It’s getting tougher all the time to unwrap Christmas. Modern technology has given us shrink wrap, which defies all attempts to tear it, fiber strapping tape which some
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DEVIL DAD Asked by a friend if she really thinks there is a devil, the little girl replied, “It’ll probably be like Santa Claus… my father.”
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A STRANGE NAME A young wife, wishing to announce the birth of her first child to a friend in a distant city, telegraphed: “Isaiah 9:6.” Which passage begins, “For unto
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REASONS FOR MARRIAGE HUSBAND TO WIFE: How can someone so beautiful, be so stupid? WIFE TO HUSBAND: God made me beautiful so you would marry me; He made me stupid
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HANDLING AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION Each salesperson sells a different product and is consequently subject to different circumstances and practices. Here’s how one salesperson handled his special product. As an explosives
BAPTISMAL RECONSIDERATION Wendell McClinton, Executive Director of the Gideons tells of his conversion and subsequent baptism during a speech given at the State Gideons Convention in Jackson, Mississippi on March
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ONLY TAKE WHAT YOU CAN EAT A man went into a pizza parlor and ordered a medium sized pizza. When it was ready, the cook asked him if he wanted
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