Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Apr 27, 2009
THE STINK LETS YOU KNOW
March 18, 1937. It was just 17 minutes before school was to dismiss in the little town of New London, TX. It was oil country, and the school board had decided to save some money by using natural gas siphoned off an oil company’s pipeline. It would allow them to fuel the
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There was an old man that took a nap everyday. He had a mischievous grandson. One day as the old man slept, his grandson got some Limburger cheese. (Limburger cheese is a pungent semisoft surface-ripened cheese.) The grandfather had a long handlebar mustache. So His grandson rubbed the Limburger
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Assembly Of God
Contributed by Derrick Tuper on Jun 11, 2010
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RIGHT UNDER HIS NOSE
Sometimes we probably feel like the man whose grandchildren played a practical joke on him. Each afternoon, Grandpa would lie down for a nap. One day, the kids decided to put limburger cheese in his moustache.
Quite soon afterward, he awoke sniffing. "This room stinks," he
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 24, 2007
The King James version translates this verse saying, “Our righteousness is as flighty rags.”
The word translated there as “filthy rags” literally means, “menstrual cloth.” Forgive my bluntness but God says the best thing you have ever done, apart from Him, stinks like that. When we do things,
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Contributed by Lynn Floyd on Jul 29, 2003
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“The church is like Noah’s ark: The stench inside would be unbearable if it weren’t for the storm outside. It’s true—sometimes we stink and the world is stormy. But as imperfect as we are on this side of heaven, the miracle is that God in fact chooses to
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Contributed by Brian La Croix on Nov 1, 2003
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And let me be very frank with you for a moment. I have trouble getting in the Word every day. It’s hard for me, and it doesn’t always get done.
I offer no excuses, although I could think of some. The problem with excuses, though,
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Contributed by Joel Pankow on Sep 6, 2001
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One day some manure came out from a prize bull - landing right in the middle of the walkway. It thought to itself, “I’m going to rise above the rest of this dung. I’m not going to live in the gutter - I’m going to be great and famous. That same day, a farmer’s hat fell off on top of the manure.
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Contributed by Ken Henson on Oct 5, 2012
Billy Graham describes an experience he had walking down a street, and a drunk man recognized him, and accosted him, stinking of liquor, claiming “I became a disciple at one of your meetings”. Billy Graham said “he must have been one of my disciples. He certainly wasn’t a disciple of Jesus”.
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Contributed by Brian Harvison on Nov 12, 2008
WHAT'S THAT SMELL?
What are some of the things we experience as we walk through a cow pasture? Usually we see cows, hay, and cow patties. The cow pasture is a place full of sights, sounds and smells.
What is that smell? Some would say that the cow pasture really stinks
While others would say, no
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Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Feb 27, 2005
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In Judith Viorst’s book for children entitled I’ll Fix Anthony, Anthony’s younger brother complains about the way his older brother treats him. The little brother says: “My brother Anthony can read books now, but he won’t read any books to me. He plays checkers with Bruce from his school. But
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on May 19, 2009
When a worker at an AT&T building in San Jose, California, took it upon herself to clean out an office refrigerator during her lunch hour Tuesday, the smell from the moldy food was so noxious that it sent 28 of her co-workers to the hospital and prompted the evacuation of all 325 people in the
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Contributed by C Jordan on Apr 5, 2006
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Proverbs According To Kids: A first grade teacher collected old, well known proverbs. She gave each kid in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest.
As You Shall Make Your Bed So Shall You... Mess It Up.
Better Be Safe Than... Punch A 5th Grader.
Strike While
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