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Humility | Humor | Pride | Short Shorts

PRIDE: Swallow your pride occasionally. It’s not fattening.

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Food | Humor | Perspective | Short Shorts | Sin | Stewardship | Waste

There’s no greater sin than letting chocolate get so old that you have to throw it away.

Chemical Abuse | Evangelism | Example | Humor | Hypocricy | Hypocrisy | Liquor | Pastor | Standards

UNRIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION A pastor answered his telephone to hear a lady’s voice request: “Please have six cases of whiskey sent to my house as we’re having a party.” Inadvertently, she

Blindness | Deceit | Humor | Lost | Self | Self-deception | Sin

WRONG LEGS Soren Kierkegaard describes the one who fails to recognize himself as he truly is on the inside, but sees only the external characteristics with the following story: It

Disobedience | Forgiveness | Humor | Law | Sin | Temptation | Tresspass

TEMPT NOT THE OTHER A man left his car in a “No Parking” space with a note: “I have searched the area for an hour and now am late for

Communication | Failure | Humor | Leadership | Mistakes | Nudity | Standards | Understanding

OOPS! A Clergyman was concerned over nude bathing in his town. “This is a stable, family-oriented community,” he stressed. He went on to say that the town would not be

Gift | Humor | Marriage | Priorities | Remembering | Sales | Value

MOTIVATED GIVING About two weeks before their fifth wedding anniversary, a husband asked his wife what she would like for a gift. She told him she would love something impractical

Ability | Anger | Conflict | Grief | Humor | Marriage

FINAL OBSERVATION A lawyer was trying to console a weeping widow. Her husband had passed away without a will. “Did the deceased have any last words?” asked the lawyer. “You

Communication | Failure | Humor | Interpretation | Mother | Understanding

LOGIC LAPSES Letter from Dutch Mother to her son, Hans: Dear Son; I’m writing this letter very slow ’cause I know that you can’t read fast. You should also know

Appearance | Exaggeration | Gossip | Humor | Lies | Perspective | Speech | Tongue | Truth

AN ORAL EXAGGERATION A man with a toothache went to the dentist. “I have a huge cavity!” he said. The doctor, seeing only a moderate amount of decay, assured him,

Communication | Fear | Humor | Perspective | Questions | Understanding

LET HIM SPEAK A lawyer was questioning a farmer about an accident. The lawyer said to the farmer, “Tell me what happened right after the accident, when you were reported

Achievement | Gift | Giving | Humor | Ideas | Sports | Success | Understanding

A NEW GIFT Before a big game the high school quarterback approached the coach and said; “Coach, we’re going to give you a victory for your birthday.” “That’s great!” exclaimed

Character | Growth | Humor | Maturity | Perfection | Purity | Sanctification/ Sin | Sin | Trial

WASHED UP PERFECTION A man once came up to C. H. Spurgeon at a Christian retreat and said that he had reached a state of spiritual perfection. Spurgeon picked up

Church | Church Growth | Fellowship | Fellowship With God | Friendship | Humor | Prejudice | Welcome

GOD CANNOT GET IN For more than a year a little old cleaning lady who lived on the wrong side of the tracks had been trying to join a fashionable

Appearance | Courage | Faith | Humor | Motivation | Perseverance | Persuade | Try

JUST A LITTLE PUSH A very wealthy man bought a huge ranch in Arizona, and he invited some of his closest associates in to see it. After touring some of

Change | Conversion | Failure | Faith | Forgiveness | Hope | Humor | Life | Sin

GETTING PAST THE PAST “You look depressed, my friend. What are you thinking of?” “My future.” “What makes it seem so hopeless?” “My past.” From 10,000 Jokes, Toasts & Stories,

Appearance | Born Loser | Faith | Humor | Perspective | Sight | Trust

UNSEEN FRIEND Thornapple, the Born Loser, is sitting at the counter in a diner eating a sandwich and minding his own business. A guy two seats over leans over and

Church | Commitment | Courage | Details | Faith | Humor | Strength | Trust

THE DARING GURKHAS Tim Bowden, in his book One Crowded Hour, tells about an incident that happened in Borneo during the confrontation between Malaysia and Indonesia in 1964. A group

Adversity | Angels | Faith | Humor | Protection | Providence | Trial

MISSING GUARDIAN ANGELS In Family Circus by Bill Keane, Billy comes into the house all tattered and torn. He looks like he’s been in a wreck and then a fight

Belief | Failure | Humility | Humor | Prayer | Reverence | Trust | Understanding

A LEVEL OF TRUST From the B.C. cartoon: One guy says, “I’m in a lot of trouble. I don’t believe in prayer. I’ve tried to be good, I’ve never blasphemed.