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College | Education | Father | Humor | Knowledge | Money | Short Shorts | Teens | Worldliness | Youth

COLLEGE BRED “College bred” describes a four-year loaf made out of the old man’s dough.

Bitterness | Gossip | Humor | Short Shorts | Speech | Tongue

SOUR GRAPEVINE Gossip travels faster over the sour grapevine.

Exercise | Failure | Football | Humor | Leisure | Service | Short Shorts | Spectators | Sports

WORN OUT END ZONE “I’ve watched so much football, I’ve worn out my end zone!”

Burden | Caution | Focus | Humor | Perspective | Purpose | Short Shorts | Strength | Success | Wisdom

MICE DON’T PLAY WITH CATS Never play cat and mouse games if you’re a mouse. Don Addis, quoted by Paul Dickson, Leadership Quotes

Courage | Fear | Humor | Preaching | Risk | Sermons | Sports | Strength

PUT THE HELMET ON THE NUMBERS Two years into his first pastorate, Rick Jones compares his first sermon on April 1, 1990 to the tackle that won him a spot

Communication | Failure | Humor | Phones | Sanctification/ Church | Service | Technology

STAY USER-FRIENDLY Don’t let your technology and methods stand in the way of the message of love and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. Here is an amusing example of good technology

Action | Church | Desire | Engineers | Experts | Failure | Humor | Planning | Sanctification/ Leadership | Service | Time

BUILD IT OR PLAN IT Sometimes putting the cart before the horse is the right thing to do. During World War II, General Douglas MacArthur asked one of his army

Church | Desire | Direction | Discipleship | Funeral | Humor | Leadership | Sanctification/ Leadership

KNOW YOUR DIRECTION One of my young colleagues was officiating at the funeral of a war veteran. The dead man’s military friends wished to have a part in the service

Church | Discipleship | Eternity | Future | Humor | Sanctification/ Heaven | Teaching

FLIGHT TRAINING A sign seen on a church bulletin board read: “Interested in going to heaven? Apply here for flight training.”

Church | Conflict | Division | Humor | Sanctification/ Church | Splits | Unity

LEFT FOOT BAPTIST CHURCH William P. Barker tells about a small town in Tennessee that had a place of worship with a sign in front that read: “LEFT FOOT BAPTIST

Church Attendance | Death | Humor | Procrastination | Sanctification/ Church | Worship

TIME FOR CHURCH Sign seen on a church bulletin board: “Don’t wait for the hearse to bring you to church.”

Differences | Doctrine | Emotions | Humor | Jews | Paranoia | Perspective | Religions | Trial | Trouble

RELIGIOUS VIEWS ON TROUBLE Elie Wiesel, Nobelist and philosopher, on religion: Taoism – Trouble happens. Confucianism – Confucius says trouble happens. Buddhism – If trouble happens, it is not really

Anatomy | Appearance | Children | Design | Humor | Perspective | Purpose | Understanding

A BOY’S ESSAY ON “ANATOMY” Your head is kind of round and hard, and your branes are in it and your hair on it. Your face is the front of

Age | Aging | Burden | Humor | Perspective | Revival | Sin

OLD SINS A middle-aged woman phoned her daughter in not a little exasperation. “Dear,” she said, “have you spoken to your grandmother recently? I’ve tried to call her every evening

Advice | Honor | Humor | Photographs | Recognition | Self | Short Shorts | Warning

PICTURE- PERFECT POINTER: Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you

Consistency | Humor | Hypocrisy | Judging | Judgment | Politics | Sin | Warning

JUDGE NOT – OR AT LEAST TRY On Nightline, January 27, 1992, a liberal political commentator was speaking out against the conservative opinions of Cal Thomas. The judgment made was

Failure | Gossip | Humor | Hymns | Praise | Speech | Worship

GOSSIP IN SONG The order of service of the Congregational Christian Church of Red Cloud, Nebraska, listed the sermon topic “Gossip.” Immediately following was the hymn, “I Love to Tell

Appearance | Communication | Humor | Interpretation | Misunderstanding | Trial | Understanding

THE POPE AND THE GRAND RABBI An apocryphal tale reports that during the Middle Ages there was a time of discord in Jerusalem. At that time the Holy City was

Blessing | Character | Healing | Humor | Joy | Laughter | Mirth | Value

A MERRY HEART DOES GOOD Jesus, the Great Physician, declared the intended result of His teachings: “…that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full”

Criticism | Critics | Exercise | Humor | Judgment | Luck | Short Shorts | Weakness

CRITICAL EXERCISE The only exercise some folks get nowadays is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.