BRING A DRUM In Snafu, Santa is reading Christmas letters, “Dear Santa, My neighbor’s lawn mower woke me every Saturday last summer. Please bring his kid a drum set.” From […]
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CAN’T BE CHRISTMAS TREES! Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad and the grandkids all went to a farm to pick out and cut down their own Christmas tree one year. As they
KEEP THE DREAM A week before Christmas, a wife told her husband, “I had a wonderful dream last night. I dreamed you gave me $200.00 on a new Christmas wardrobe.
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TURNED OFF JESUS To show the splendor of the newborn Savior in the church Christmas pageant, an electric light bulb was hidden in the manger. All the stage lights were
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PRACTICE TURF Practice needed: A golfer who made a spectacularly bad shot and tore up a large piece of turf took the sod in his hand and looking wildly about,
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A NEW APPROACH FOR THE BOSS It wasn’t exactly what the boss expected when he asked his employees to put suggestions in a box as to how the business could
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UNCERTAIN MATURITY Maturity is when we change from cocksureness into thoughtful uncertainty…
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OILFIELD WISDOM An oilfield worker once offered some great advice to a speaker who had trouble concluding his public address: Once we start drilling, if we haven’t struck oil in
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LEARNING THINGS Here are some (I think) great pearls of wisdom from the book, Live and Learn and Pass It On. It was written by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. but
EVERY THIRD CAR EMPTY Statistics show that in 1940 each car on the road had an average of 2.2 persons; in 1950 it was 1.4. It won’t be long until
THE REASON FOR TRIALS A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the best lawyer. By Robert Frost
UNHEALTHY TIMING From under a beach umbrella: “Just when I can afford to lie in the sun, they decide it’s hazardous to my health.”
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PROPER MODE OF COMMUNION or TOO MUCH STATIC FROM THE LIPS I heard a story recently, supposedly true, about the new pastor at the Methodist? Episcopal? Lutheran? church. After the
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BETTER LEFT UNSAID For all the “speechifying” they do, you’d think our politicians could avoid putting their feet where their mouths are. But not so, as David Olive scathingly demonstrates
DRY ROT AND WORMS An English Vicar, who was concerned with his congregation’s aging and decaying building, made an announcement just before taking up the morning offering. He said, “The
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RIGHT WAS WRONG Do you remember Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards? He was the British ski jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics who received international attention because of his very bad
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PASTORS LACK DIRECTION My son David was given one of his first assignments in the first grade to help him learn his directions. The teacher asked the children in her
HE WAS ONLY A CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE, BUT I LOVED HI M… I met him at a party. There he was at the end of the buffet — a loner,
COMPARITIVE EULOGY A young pastor moved to a new church and during his first week is called upon to have a funeral. The day arrived for the service and the
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HOW OLD? The pastor was baptizing several people during the Sunday morning service. He asked one little girl, “And how long have you had Jesus in your heart?” “Five years.”
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