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  • George Duncan Once Went To Visit Some Friends In ...

    Contributed by Bruce Howell on May 20, 2009
     | 2,476 views

    George Duncan once went to visit some friends in the English countryside. For years they had lived in an old-fashioned, rundown building. To Mr. Duncan’s surprise, he discovered that the house had been completely remodeled. The people had installed new lights, an electric stove, and many other ...read more

  • Kfc Chicken Joy

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Jun 30, 2009
     | 2,790 views

    KFC CHICKEN JOY A few weeks ago, KFC through Oprah made it possible for every person to get a free meal of KFC’s grilled chicken. People were exuberant. The computer server was overwhelmed with requests. We were able to get the coupons and went the next day. The restaurants were overwhelmed by the ...read more

  • Your Secret Sins Will Come To ...

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 11, 2009
     | 1,920 views

    “Your Secret Sins Will Come to Light” The newspapers of Cincinnati recorded that a poorly dressed woman went to Dr. George Herman asking him to make an X-ray examination of her heart free of cost. She claimed that she was very poor and couldn’t pay. The doctor consented to do the work. But when ...read more

  • Caught In The Barn  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 13, 2010
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,554 views

    CAUGHT IN THE BARN During one of his political campaigns, a delegation called on Theodore Roosevelt at his home in Oyster Bay, Long Island. The President met them with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up. "Ah, gentlemen," he said, "come down to the barn and we will talk while I do some work." ...read more

  • Chicken For Dinner

    Contributed by Tim White on Sep 7, 2011
     | 2,890 views

    CHICKEN FOR DINNER When my dad was a small boy, he wanted to go fishing, but no one would take him. He sat on his porch with his fishing pole and pretended to be fishing until that became too boring. So he put a hook on and put a piece of bread on the hook. My grandmother let her chickens run ...read more

  • The Mortal Work Of Art

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Jan 16, 2012
     | 1,122 views

    THE MORTAL WORK OF ART Shelley Jackson is a writer. Yet, you cannot read anything she's written in a magazine, book or screen. Instead, you have to look at people. Her story is written on human skin. Her story is called "Skin." Jackson calls it "a mortal work of art." It is a fictional piece ...read more

  • The Only Sunlight They See

    Contributed by Christian Cheong on Feb 4, 2013
     | 5,830 views

    THE ONLY SUNLIGHT THEY SEE Two orphaned brothers stay in a slum district of New York City. One of them is crippled and hardly leaves the room. The older brother has to take care of him and buys him food. His younger brother lamented one day that he has not seen the sunlight for a long time. ...read more

  • Betting On Goliath  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 2, 2013
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,431 views

    BETTING ON GOLIATH Death was handled differently in the ancient world. An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy. After examining it, he called the curator of a prestigious natural history museum. "I've just discovered a 3,000 year old ...read more

  • The Mirror  PRO

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on May 21, 2008
    based on 4 ratings
     | 10,613 views

    THE MIRROR Author Robert Fulghum tells this story of one of his professors, a wise man whose name was Alexander Papaderos: At the last session on the last morning of a two week seminar on Greek culture, Dr. Papaderos turned and made the ritual gesture: "Are there any questions?" Quiet quilted ...read more

  • The ...

    Contributed by Eric Ferguson on Aug 22, 2008
     | 1,952 views

    The Mirror Author Robert Fulghum tells this story of one of his professors, a wise man whose name was Alexander Papaderos: At the last session on the last morning of a two-week seminar on Greek culture, Dr. Papaderos turned and made the ritual gesture: "Are there any questions?" Quiet quilted ...read more

  • Ashamed When It Counted The Most

    Contributed by Jonathan Spurlock on Dec 18, 2019
     | 2,632 views

    Ashamed when it counted the most My two sisters, when they were somewhat younger, liked to play the piano and took lessons for some time. I like music, too, but not all the practicing that went along with it! We found out there was going to be a “recital” where all of the students in their ...read more

  • I Think We Could All Agree That We Don’t ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lynn Floyd on May 10, 2001
    based on 123 ratings
     | 2,378 views

    I think we could all agree that we don’t have to teach children how to do wrong. Here are the property laws of a toddler. a). If I like it, it’s mine. b). IF it’s in my hand, it’s mine. c). If I can take it from you, it’s mine. d). If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine. e). If it’s mine, ...read more

  • The Roof Of The Church Hall Of A Little Swiss ...  PRO

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 8, 2001
    based on 120 ratings
     | 7,309 views

    The roof of the church hall of a little Swiss church, at the turn of the 20th century, was falling down. So the members of the church held regular prayer meetings in the hall after the service to pray for funds to repair the roof . There was an old man, known to be very tight with his money, ...read more

  • We Shall All Be Changed  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Mar 28, 2002
    based on 18 ratings
     | 4,338 views

    WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED The first Law of Thermodynamics says that no mass or energy is ever destroyed, that it merely changes form. When a piece of wood is burned, it is not gone. Some of it becomes heat; some deteriorates into the ashes. But it is not destroyed - it just changes. When a lake ...read more

  • Unamuno, The Spanish Philosopher, Tells About The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Steven Dow on Jul 9, 2002
    based on 48 ratings
     | 1,933 views

    Unamuno, the Spanish philosopher, tells about the Roman aqueduct a Segovia, in his native Spain. It was built in 109 A.D. For eighteen hundred years, it carried cool water from the mountains to the hot and thirsty city. Nearly sixty generations of men drank from its flow. Then came another ...read more

  • We Live In The Age Of Information Overload. ...  PRO

    Contributed by James Botts on Aug 29, 2002
    based on 7 ratings
     | 2,159 views

    We live in the age of information overload. Consider the following: Ø New York Times contains more factual information in one edition than all the written materials available to a reader in the 15th century. Ø In 1472 the finest university library in the world was Queen’s College, Cambridge, it ...read more

  • The Hallmark  PRO

    Contributed by Charles Salmon on Jul 20, 2003
    based on 10 ratings
     | 3,684 views

    "The Hallmark" Many of us can t tell fourteen caret gold from eighteen carat. Sone of us can t even tell gold plate from solid gold. In old London town the jewelers of Goldsmith’s Hall took pride in doing good work, and they wanted each customer to know what he was buying. So they devised a mark ...read more

  • Just A Couple Weeks Ago, A Sweet Lady In Our ...

    Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Oct 10, 2004
     | 1,560 views

    Just a couple weeks ago, a sweet lady in our church family stood before the congregation to share her story. She had been raised in a sound Christian home and had received proper instruction as well as all the comforts a modest home could provide. Although she acknowledged that she was loved by her ...read more

  • God Is Not A Genie  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 11, 2004
    based on 11 ratings
     | 5,555 views

    GOD IS NOT A GENIE An auto dealer, facing bankruptcy, was walking along a beach when he kicked a bottle and out popped a genie. "Thanks for setting me free," said the genie. "To show my appreciation, I’ll grant you one wish." "Okay," said the auto dealer, "I want to be the only foreign car dealer ...read more

  • A Farmer Went To His Banker And Announced That He ...  PRO

    Contributed by Lou Nicholes on Dec 28, 2004
    based on 2 ratings
     | 9,382 views

    A farmer went to his banker and announced that he had bad news and good news. “First, the bad news...” “Well,” said the farmer, “I can’t make my mortgage payments. And that crop loan I’ve taken out for the past 10 years—I can’t pay that off, either. Not only that, I won’t be able to pay you the ...read more

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