Contributed by J.d. Tutell on Jan 23, 2012
based on 3 ratings
| 4,532 views
FIXING THE FENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Three contractors were on a tour of the White House. One is from Minnesota, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Chicago. As they are walking through they notice a broken fence and ask if it would be possible to submit a bid to fix it. They are
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 30, 2001
based on 217 ratings
| 5,981 views
Many years ago, a professor from Harvard University was speaking to a class on Columbus Day. He said that there were three profound things about Christopher Columbus’ discovery of America:
First, when he left Spain he didn’t know where he was going.
Second, when he arrived in the New World he
...read more
Tags:
Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 27, 2002
based on 52 ratings
| 6,715 views
NEVER ENOUGH
The story is told of two old friends who bumped into one another on the street one day. One of them looked forlorn, almost on the verge of tears. His friend asked, "What has the world done to you, my old friend?"
The sad fellow said, "Let me tell you. Three weeks ago, an uncle died
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Mennonite
based on 1 rating
| 705 views
One day a certain old, rich man of a miserable disposition visited a rabbi, who took the rich man by the hand and led him to a window.
He said, "Look out there my wealthy friend."
The rich man looked into the street. "What do you see"? asked the rabbi.
"I see men,
...read more
Scripture:
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Joel Vicente on May 27, 2004
based on 53 ratings
| 2,101 views
A College student had the following message on his dorm answering machine:
"Hi! This is Fred. If it's the phone company, I sent the money. If it's Mom or Dad, please send money. If it's the financial office, you didn't loan me enough money. If
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Baptist
Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 9, 2001
based on 83 ratings
| 2,116 views
An interesting article appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It was an interview of 6 top executives, all of them making 6-figure salaries. That means that they made somewhere between $100,000 & $999,999 a year.
Now you are probably thinking what I thought, "If I made even $100,000 a year, I’d
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jeff Strite on Nov 10, 2002
based on 11 ratings
| 4,681 views
William Boice once wrote:
"-- Dear Lord, I have been re-reading the record of the rich young ruler and his obviously wrong choice. But it has set me thinking. No matter how much wealth he had, he could not -
ride in a car,
have any surgery,
turn on a light,
buy penicillin,
hear a pipe
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Nov 16, 2002
based on 9 ratings
| 3,757 views
Some weeks ago I was watching the Health Channel on TV. They showed and described different types of plastic surgery procedures. I was amazed at the things that plastics surgeons can do now-a-days. If you need more luscious lips, they can inject collagen and make your lips downright pouty. If
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Lutheran
Contributed by Victor Yap on Jan 23, 2001
based on 69 ratings
| 1,682 views
Kevin McHale, the former Boston Celtics basketball player spoke bluntly about
the troubles that followed NBA players though they had discovered sudden
wealth: "I don¡¦t think basketball is the answer to all problems. If a guy
comes into the league with a ton of problems, and they
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
based on 1 rating
| 829 views
A young boy was invited to church by one of his friends.
On the way out the door, his mother handed him two dollars. Then she said, "There is one for you and for God when they pass the offering plate!"
As the boy walked along with his friend, the wind blew one of the dollars right out
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Tung on Mar 28, 2007
“The fallacy of misplaced concreteness” is a concept developed by Alfred North Whitehead, a philosopher who specialized in mathematics. And an example of what this says is that in a 2-dimensional world, giving the x and y axis location of a point is sufficient to precisely locate that point. But
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 22, 2008
When in Ireland, I saw versions of "Deal or No Deal" and "The Weakest Link." The biggest difference that struck me was the amount of the prize money. The money that was won and the money that was accepted as a decent prize was usually a tenth of what is won here in the US. In fact the largest prize
...read more
Tags:
Denomination:
Church Of God
Sermon Central