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  • Three Athletes  PRO

    Contributed by Peter Bines on Aug 25, 2005
    based on 6 ratings
     | 6,728 views

    Three athletes are about to be executed. One is a short dark haired hockey player; one is a bald headed tennis player, and the third is a tall blond haired soccer player. The guard brings the dark haired hockey player forward and the executioner asks if he has any last minute request. He replies ...read more

  • In The Glovebox Of Most Every Car In Our Parking ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 13, 2006
     | 971 views

    In the glovebox of most every car in our parking lot this morning, besides your registration and proof of insurance, there’s a book – a small book maybe ¾” thick. If you go to change your oil, it tells you what kind and how much to put in. It tells you what pressure to have in your tires, and how ...read more

  • I Knew Of A Good-Looking Young Boy Who Attended ...

    Contributed by C Reola on Nov 26, 2006
     | 1,787 views

    I knew of a good-looking young boy who attended a Youth Camp. He was 14 years old, starting the High School life. During the camp, there was what they call Talent’s Night wherein the campers are to perform and show his/her talent. His leader asked him what his talent was? The boy doesn’t know how ...read more

  • Pride At The Donut Shop

    Contributed by Brad Henry on Jul 29, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 6,248 views

    PRIDE AT THE DONUT SHOP I was living in Phoenix at the time and on my way to work I stopped at a Dunkin Donuts drive through. I said to the woman at the window, "I'll have 3 cake donuts and a cup of coffee." She started mumbling something that I couldn't hear. I thought she may be able to hear me ...read more

  • The Old Man And The Savior

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Nov 9, 2011
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,938 views

    THE OLD MAN AND THE SAVIOR Jan Weinert wrote: "The old man came into the service shortly after it started. He sat at the end of my row, with two vacant seats between us. A noticeable hearing aid was in his ear, and he held the bulletin up to within inches of his thick glasses to try to read it. As ...read more

  • Where Your Treasure Is...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 31, 2012
     | 3,283 views

    I once read about in one of Richard Wurmbrand’s books. “An elder of a local free Church in Communist Romania was brought before the judge for embezzlement - a crime he had not committed. His defence lawyer started his defence plea by telling the Court of a well known story about the man that was ...read more

  • A Light In The Dark

    Contributed by Carl Allen on Jul 8, 2022
     | 3,966 views

    While leaving in Germany, I had the fortune of going camping in the black forest. I found out quickly why they call it the black forest. When the sun goes down it is pitch black and you can barely see your hand in front of your face. We had just finished setting up camp and I had to run back out ...read more

  • A Squirrel In The Road

    Contributed by Jim Heidebrecht on Jul 2, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,350 views

    A Squirrel in the road: This week as I was thinking about roads and signposts and choices, I was on our road right out here and as I turned the corner, I saw a squirrel He was halfway across when he noticed me I didn’t have room to stop He froze in the middle, he started across, started back, ...read more

  • I Have Played Baseball Since I Was A Little Boy, ...

    Contributed by Roy Probus on Dec 27, 2007
     | 1,571 views

    I have played baseball since I was a little boy, probably like most of you we started out playing stick ball or some variation. But as we grew up, our game became more sophisticated and so did our equipment. This bat cost me $150, probably the most amount of money I have spent on any sports ...read more

  • Almost Every Culture Has A New Year's ...

    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jan 10, 2008
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     | 3,262 views

    Almost every culture has a New Year’s celebration. The ancient Romans celebrated the new year with the birth of Janus, the two faced god who could look back into the past and forward into the future. They exchanged gifts, not because they were overjoyed with each other, but as a method of bribery ...read more

  • Trapping Wild Pigs

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Oct 27, 2008
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     | 2,310 views

    Trapping Wild Pigs You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When ...read more

  • Come Hell Or High Water

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Mar 2, 2009
     | 3,072 views

    COME HELL OR HIGH WATER Glen and Jo Ann live in Orange County, California in a low lying area. It flooded one year and the local newspaper sent a reporter, in a boat, out to Glen and Jo Ann’s neighborhood. The reporter found Jo Ann, sitting on their roof watching large objects floating by, so he ...read more

  • Words Of Discouragement From Lucy To Charley ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 19, 2009
     | 6,370 views

    Words of Discouragement from Lucy to Charley Brown Charley Brown says to Lucy, still dispensing sage wisdom for the pre-inflationary price of five cents, "Nobody likes me, Lucy. Everybody hates my guts. Do you see that plane up there, Lucy? It’s a plane full of people going somewhere else. That’s ...read more

  • Eternal Life  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 1, 2008
    based on 2 ratings
     | 5,771 views

    ETERNAL LIFE If you are Christian, eternal life does not simply mean going to heaven for eternity. Eternal life means a never-dying spirit that has already sprung to life in you! In other words, eternal life starts NOW! Your life that lasts eternally in the next world is the same life that begins ...read more

  • Eternal Life

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 12, 2008
     | 5,251 views

    Eternal Life If you are Christian, eternal life does not simply mean going to heaven for eternity. Eternal life means a never-dying spirit that has already sprung to life in you! In other words, eternal life starts NOW! Your life that lasts eternally in the next world is the same life that begins ...read more

  • Seven Types Of Loneliness

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Feb 1, 2021
     | 1,895 views

    7 Types of Loneliness 1. New-situation loneliness. You’ve moved to a new city where you don’t know anyone, or you’ve started a new job, or you’ve started at a school full of unfamiliar faces. You’re lonely. 2. I’m-different loneliness. You’re in a place that’s not unfamiliar, but you feel ...read more

  • American Army Of Two  PRO

    Contributed by Mike Kern on Jan 27, 2002
    based on 13 ratings
     | 3,649 views

    AMERICAN ARMY OF TWO Rebecca and Abigail Bates lived on the coast of Massachusetts, near a little village named Scituate. Their father was the keeper of the lighthouse, which stood at the entrance of the harbor and warned ships away from the rocky coast. One day Rebecca and Abigail were up in ...read more

  • Life Is An Arugula Sandwich! (09.14.05--Heavenly ...

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Sep 12, 2005
     | 2,151 views

    Life Is An Arugula Sandwich! (09.14.05--Heavenly Citizens!--Proverbs 10:28) Arugula, Also known as rocket, roquette, rugula and rucola, was a name of something I may of heard of once or twice; but never really had an appreciation for what it was. Over the past week that has all changed. Arugula ...read more

  • A Man, I'll Call Him Ken, Once Wrote Of A ...

    Contributed by Curry Pikkaart on Dec 24, 2009
     | 2,758 views

    A man, I’ll call him Ken, once wrote of a ‘chance’ encounter in his life. As a freshman in high school, he saw a boy from his class walking home from school. His name was Kyle. He had an arm full of books. Ken wondered why anyone would carry home so many books on a Friday. He wrote Kyle off as a ...read more

  • Saying

    Contributed by Jeffrey Dillinger on Apr 30, 2010
     | 4,010 views

    Saying “Good-bye” to Mom It is Mother’s Day weekend and my mom is dying from pancreatic cancer. She is only 65 and I will miss her very much. We are a family who believes in and loves God very much. Faith is the victory that overcomes. Right now, faith is what is needed to overcome my grief. ...read more