ECONOMIC LAWS The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist. The Second Law of Economists: They are both wrong.
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WILD THING FEAR This past August our youth went to Valley Fair, an amusement park in Minnesota. A new roller coaster opened in 1996 called the "Wild Thing," and our kids were crazy about going…
KEEPING CLEAN When we furnish our bedroom with only a bed, night stands and chests, we find that we put all of our clothes where they belong and our room stays clean. As soon as…
Children | Family | Heritage | Knowledge | Loneliness | Mother | Mothers | Opportunity | Remembering
PEANUT IN HER POCKET Sally was growing up, becoming a woman preparing to go off to college. Her mother had struggled to provide for her education, an especially difficult task since her father had died…
IN CONCLUSION A pastor began his sermon as follows: "I asked my wife to go through the notes for this sermon and to take out anything that was irrelevant or boring. So, in conclusion, "let…
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 no one was able to…
HOPE FOR GOODNESS Goodness isn't possible without hope at least I hope so. Written and
LITTLE MISSIONARIES We little children cannot go Across the ocean's foam And bring the truth to heathen lands But we can work at home./We cannot preach the Word of God Unto the sick or poor…
THE CHASE IS ON One day I was in the mall with my three year old son Jacob. We walked by the coat and tie store, and I saw a suit that I had wanted…
LONG LINE OF REVENGE From the April, 1990 issue of Wendoll's Newsletter comes the following conversation. Before the Romanian revolution, Ceausescu telephones the most honest man in Romania: "Do people really hate me?" The man…
THE FATHER CAN SEE The city was being bombed, and a father picked up his son and ran for shelter. The father found a deep hole. He put down his son and jumped into the…
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 tail. The sales clerk ran…
LEGAL WASTE The definition of "waste" is a busload of lawyers who are plunging over a precipice with three unoccupied seats.
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: "Aaron, where are you rushing!"…
GOOD AT THE END Dad turned on the television so his five-year-old daughter could watch her favorite cartoon. When he turned on the program, there was a mean cartoon character threatening "the good guys." Marie…
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 in either Chile or Brazil.…
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 the letter was this disclaimer:…
A-B-C & D-E-F The gospel is as simple as A-B-C. But some people are D-E-F.
THANKS FOR NOTHING Bart Simpson - praying at a meal: "Since we paid for all this ourselves, thanks for nothing." From Moody Pastors' Conference Guideline Book, 1994, pg. 2
GRATITUDE AGES QUICKLY Martin Luther laid stress on the old Latin proverb, "Nothing ages more quickly than gratitude." From Doubt, by Os Guinness, pg. 62
