TIME TO WORRY A man once said, “I’ve got so many troubles that if anything bad happens today it will be two weeks before I can worry about it.
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HEAVEN’S NEW STORIES One night while getting her boys ready for bed, a mother told them she would read them a new Bible story. The older boy said, “You mean
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THE REAL BIBLE I went to visit a family. Before leaving I asked if they would like for me to read from the Bible. The lady of the house said
DO YOU TAKE THIS EPISTLE? Most church members think an epistle is the wife of an apostle. From The Springdale Lion’s Roar, February, 1991
ONE LAST FLING A friend of mine was with a group of golfers watching a fellow who was having some difficulty on this particular course. The frustration became too much
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CRASH-COURSE IN INTEGRATION Making a right turn off the main highway onto a narrow two-lane road, I skidded on the gravel and wound up just short of hitting a waiting
AFFAIR WITH TOUPEE On the Phil Donahue Show on January 13, 1992 a number of the reporters and anchor persons from the twenty years of the Today Show were being
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IGNORE THE ROBERTS BOYS In our church, we have a very large and active family by the name of Roberts. The family spans several generations. They are involved in almost
GOD REMEMBERS A pupil once brought to the philosopher Hegel a passage of the philosopher’s writings and asked for an interpretation. Hegel examined it and replied, “When that passage was
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A WORSE CASE SENARIO Climbing a hill on our moped at the end of a beautiful day in Bermuda we were suddenly slammed into the road by a car. It
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COMMITTEES While observing yet another huddle at another football game, writer George Will had this observation about the game: “It combines the two worst things about American life. It is
ULTIMATE CONFUSION I heard about a man who wore a button on his lapel with the letters B.A.I.K. Someone asked him, “What does B.A.I.K. mean?” “It means, ‘Boy, am I
WRONG BIBLE A rare book collector met a guy who said he’d just thrown out an old Bible that had been packed away for generations. “Somebody named Guten-something had printed
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NO CONFESSION WITHOUT CONVICTION While my wife was shopping, I sat comfortably and calmly in my car, but suddenly my serene reverie was interrupted by a crash. Another car had
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REWARDS OF INTERRUPTIONS Do you know what happens to little boys who keep interrupting? They grow up and make a fortune doing commercials on television.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The master of ceremonies is speaking: “Tonight we have a galaxy of international stars performing for us… from Indonesia, Mr. Frank Sumatra; from South America, the gorgeous Bolivia
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PREACHING TWIN OR PRACTICING TWIN Of the twin brothers, one became a minister and the other a physician. It was almost impossible to tell the twins apart. A man approached
EIGHT PLUS EIGHT The key to getting ahead is setting aside eight hours a day for work and eight hours a day for sleep, and making sure they’re not the
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RATING SYSTEMS FOR SERMONS Rev. Norm Shouten, member of our Board of Directors and pastor of Our Savior’s Reformed Church, has discovered a system for rating sermons which you may
FLOATING MEMO From a principal’s memo to the district superintendent: “On Tuesday, a frozen-water pipe broke and flooded four classrooms. Alternative arrangements were made by doubling classes and having special
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