A PRINCE OF A KING Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy — in a […]
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CREATIVE CONFUSION If God wanted penguins to fly, he would have given them wings.
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ASSEMBLING JEHOVAH WITNESSES A certain family kept getting unwanted visits from the Jehovah Witnesses. It was an annoying inconvenience; the husband or wife would tell their unwelcome callers that they
GET OUT OF JAIL FREE Jorge Rodrigues, at age twenty-two, went before a Kenosha, Wisconsin municipal judge last November on a charge that he had hit a parked car while
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CAN’T GIVE NO HELP A teacher in an isolated mountain school had just given her class an examination. At the end of the exam, she told her class to write
MORNING ATTITUDES Bil Keane’s cartoon, “The Family Circus,” offers one particular cartoon with only two frames. In the first frame, Dolly gets out of bed and is standing looking out
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THE BIBLE SAYS JUMP One of the fathers in our congregation related to me how he and his five-year-old girl had been jumping together on their backyard trampoline. She was
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WINDY & THIRSTY Three aged senior citizens were out for a walk together and one made the comment, “It sure is windy!” The second responded, “It’s not Wednesday. It’s Thursday.”
ANOTHER COLLECTION AGENCYA woman has finally figured out how to stop those unsolicited and unwanted “chance-of-a-lifetime”-offers by hideous telemarketing phone callers. She enthusiastically welcomes these calls by saying, “Oh, thank
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THE FIRST OFFICIAL ACT A seminary president told this story: When candidates are ordained into the ministry, they have one thing to do in the service. At the conclusion of
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LIVING REVENGE Bumper sticker wisdom — “Get revenge: Live long enough to be a problem to your children.”
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NAVAL NON- MESSAGES I received a letter the other day from the U. S. Navy. The Navy was trying to recruit me to their chaplaincy program. On the bottom of
BAD CHOICES My all time favorite illustration concerns making the right choices: A man named Fred inherited a huge land grant, but the will provided that he could choose land
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MY SON IS A CHRISTIAN This is a story about Aaron the tailor, who was rushing down the street, when he passed Moishe the banker, who calls out to him:
LEGAL WASTE The definition of “waste” is a busload of lawyers who are plunging over a precipice with three unoccupied seats.
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JUST LOOKING AROUND A blind man walked into a store with his seeing eye dog. The man picked up his dog and began swinging the dog in circles by his
Appearance | Appearances | Blindness | Humor | Perspective | StoryHealth | Vision Read More »
ELEPHANTS REMEMBER A man who owned an elephant offered a standing bet that no one could force his elephant to kneel and for a long time many people tried, but
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PRESIDENTIAL PIG TRADE President Clinton returned after a visit from Arkansas carrying two baby pigs. A reporter said to Clinton, “Those are great looking pigs you have there.” The President
Bargains | Family | Humor | Justice | Marriage | Politics | Presidents | Trades | Value Read More »
24 HOUR BANKS You have seen the signs that say: “24-HOUR BANKING.” But who has that long to stand in line at the bank?
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COMPLETE FORGIVENESS In teaching my boys, ages four and three, the Lord’s Prayer, I was startled to hear my oldest boy say “As we forgive those who pass gas against
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