Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 27, 2007
I worked with my Daddy on Saturdays in the grocery from the time I was a senior in high school through being a senior in college. The farmers would come to the movies on Saturday night and wait until after the double feature and the serial and the previews to pick up their groceries. Daddy would
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 24, 2002
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MEANING OF CHRISTMAS?
A television interviewer was walking the streets of Tokyo at Christmas time. Much as in America, Christmas shopping is a big commercial success in Japan. The interviewer stopped one young woman on the sidewalk, and asked, "What is the meaning of Christmas?"
Laughing, she
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Contributed by James Chandler on Apr 4, 2003
A bank in Binghampton, New York had some flowers sent to a competitor who had recently moved into a new building. There was a mix up at the flowers shop, and the card sent with the arrangement read, “With our deepest sympathy.” The florist, who was greatly embarrassed apologized. He was even
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 15, 2007
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WOMEN’S REVENGE
"Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.
As she fumbled for her wallet , I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.
"So, do you always carry your TV remote?" I asked.
"No," she replied, "but my husband refused
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 19, 2021
.A customer walked into my clothing shop and asked to see the pants that were advertised in the paper that day. “We don’t have an ad in the paper today,” I told her. She insisted I was wrong, so I got a copy of the paper, and we went through it, eventually landing on an ad for pants from another
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Ian Biss on Sep 30, 2001
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As she awoke this day, thoughts of Sunday danced through her mind, Nancy was looking forward to Easter, the whole family would be coming over to visit this year because they were all close to home. Now that the grandchildren were getting older, the Easter egg hunts became more lively with all the
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Grace Brethren
Contributed by Scott Weber on Dec 14, 2005
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I heard a story of a woman who was out Christmas shopping with her two children. After many hours of looking at row after row of toys and everything else imaginable. And after hours of hearing both her children asking for everything they saw on those many shelves, she finally made it to the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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LOSING CONTROL, ONE MISTAKE AT A TIME
"According to the Associated Press, on December 14, 1996, a 763-foot grain freighter, the Bright Field, was heading down the Mississippi at New Orleans, Louisiana, when it lost control, veered toward the shore, and crashed into a riverside shopping mall. At
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United Methodist
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 8, 2003
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Let me demonstrate with the following: "The mall was shoppers. They were it seemed racing every which way in the halls and stores. Cashiers struggled to stay ahead of the growing lines of impatient customers. Amid the havoc, nobody noticed that an elderly woman had dropped her packages near an exit
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Lutheran
Contributed by Charles Wallis on Feb 18, 2009
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Does God exist? Barbers Don’t Exist…
This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen. It’s an explanation other people will understand.
Does God exist? A man went to a barber shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work,
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Pentecostal
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Jun 16, 2009
ALL THINGS NEW
Years ago, I had the classic New Jersey car accident: I was hit from behind as I stopped for someone in a crosswalk. The guy actually got out of his car threw up his hands and exclaimed, "What the blank are you stopping for?" I got out of my car and motioned to the crosswalk, "I
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2001
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In February of 1996, John Howard opened a Ku Klux Klan museum and apparel store called The Redneck Shop in Laurens, S.C. Asked by a reporter what the reaction was by townspeople, Howard said, "The only people I’ve had a problem with, who took it as an insult and a racial situation, have been
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 11, 2002
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Boss’ Sign
The boss was complaining in our staff meeting the other day that he wasn’t getting any respect.
Later that morning he went to a local card and novelty shop and bought a small sign that read, "I’m the Boss." He then taped it to his office door.
Later that day when he returned from
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Contributed by Paul Decker on Dec 1, 2002
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PREPARED TO WAIT
Ed Watt was visiting a local department store with his wife, and they had just purchased a piece of luggage and a cooler. As Ed browsed in the shoe depart-ment waiting for his wife to finish the rest of her shopping, a clerk asked if he could be of assistance.
“No, thank you,"
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Baptist
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