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  • A New York City Businessman Decided To Avoid A ...  PRO

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 29, 2005
    based on 13 ratings
     | 1,753 views

    A New York City businessman decided to avoid a $20 service charge by replacing a fluorescent light himself. After he had smuggled a new light into his office and put it in place, he decided to get rid of the old tube by throwing it in the trash can near his subway stop. That night he got on the ...read more

  • A Real Christian Is An Odd Number Anyway. He ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2005
     | 2,916 views

    A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feel supreme love for One whom he has never seen. Talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see. He expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order that he might be full, admits he is wrong to he can be declared right, ...read more

  • Teen Abortions Are Now Just 19% Of The Total ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,795 views

    Teen Abortions are now just 19% of the total number, according to a study by Janice Crouse of the Beverly LaHaye Institute. Women over 20 get 80% of all abortions, with 48% by women 25 and older, increasingly as a method of birth control. Repeat abortions have also risen steadily over the years, ...read more

  • Multi-Site Churches There Are Now At Least 1,500 ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,494 views

    Multi-Site Churches There are now at least 1,500 multi-site churches in the U.S. finds a new Leadership Network survey. 51% say their reason for going multi-site was evangelistic outreach, and 21% did it to get closer to their target audience. The remaining 19% view it as a solution to overcrowding ...read more

  • Author Irving Stone Has Spent A Lifetime Studying ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Jan 31, 2006
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,102 views

    Author Irving Stone has spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of these exceptional people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their ...read more

  • Listen With Your Face! In Other Words, Look At ...

    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Mar 4, 2006
     | 1,339 views

    Listen with your face! In other words, look at your mate when they talk. One day, when my youngest Zach was about 5 or 6, he walked into the kitchen and said, “Daddy?” I was reading so, without looking up I said, “uh, huh.” He said, “Daddy?” I said, without looking up, “Yes.” He said, “Daddy?” ...read more

  • E. Stanley Jones Tells Of A Missionary Who Was ...

    Contributed by Alan Tison on Jun 22, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,034 views

    E. Stanley Jones tells of a missionary who was lost in an African jungle, nothing around him but bush and a few cleared places. Finally he found a hut and asked the owner if he could get him out. The native said he could. “All right,” said the missionary, “show me the way.” The native said, ...read more

  • Legal Drug Addiction While Use Of Illegal Drugs ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 17, 2006
     | 2,554 views

    Legal Drug Addiction While use of illegal drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine appear to be going down or leveling off, prescription drug abuse is increasing at an alarming rate. In an ‘05 Partnership for a Drug Free America survey, nearly 20% of teens admitted to taking some sort of ...read more

  • In 1982, "Abc Evening News" Reported On An ...

    Contributed by Charles R. Swindoll on Sep 13, 2006
    based on 1 rating
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    In 1982, "ABC Evening News" reported on an unusual work of modern art--a chair affixed to a shotgun. It was to be viewed by sitting in the chair and looking directly into the gun barrel. The gun was loaded and set on a timer to fire at an undetermined moment within the next hundred years. The ...read more

  • Rejection Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Oct 2, 2006
     | 4,820 views

    Rejection is in the Eye of the Beholder A young salesman became discouraged because he had been rejected by so many customers he approached. He asked a more experienced salesman for some advice. “Why is it that every time I make a call on someone I get rejected?” “I just don’t understand that,” ...read more

  • Nova Scotia. The Manager Of An Insurance Agency ...

    Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
    based on 1 rating
     | 1,229 views

    Nova Scotia. The manager of an insurance agency group told the salesmen under him that they weren’t being assertive enough. They weren’t showing a willingness to do whatever it takes to get their job done. One agent wanted to change that right away. Outside the window, on the 17th floor, were ...read more

  • Then He Appeared  PRO

    Contributed by John Shaw on Dec 2, 2006
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,662 views

    Then he appeared THE TRAMP SAID HE had walked 70 miles from a dry brook in Israel SAID His name was ...... something Jewish and unprouncable Slicker or HE..LIKE..HER .......Whatever SAID his name meant .. My god is Jehovah SAID he had shut up the skies Stopped the rain Him ...read more

  • It's Interesting That There Has Been Such An ...

    Contributed by David Henderson on Jan 3, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 2,175 views

    It’s interesting that there has been such an increase of shows on television that involve the court room. These shows really are all about the judge. He or she is the focus of the program. There is an entire station now devoted to Court TV. It all started with the “people’s Court” and Judge ...read more

  • Don't Move The Piano  PRO

    Contributed by James Chandler on Jan 10, 2007
    based on 2 ratings
     | 10,307 views

    A new preacher at the local church walked into the auditorium of His new church. He thought it would be best to move the piano from the right side of the stage to the left side of the stage, so he moved it. Soon after he was fired for the disruption caused by the new ...read more

  • Have You Ever Noticed That Good Feeling That You ...

    Contributed by Michael Trask on Jan 18, 2007
    based on 1 rating
     | 3,329 views

    Have you ever noticed that good feeling that you get when you give of yourself? Perhaps you gave time to help someone with a flat tire on the side of the road, or perhaps you helped a lost child be reunited with his mother in a crowd, or maybe when the clerk at the store gave you too much ...read more

  • The Shepherd Psalm Does Speak Against Anxiety, ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Mar 21, 2007
     | 1,463 views

    The Shepherd Psalm does speak against anxiety, worry, and fear. It calls for trust in God. Here’s an example of the wrong kind of faith. Are you familiar with the Broom Hilda comic strip? Anybody ever seen it? For an illustration of mindless faith I like the conversation that takes place between ...read more

  • Worried That She'll Stop Clapping

    Contributed by Dennis Selfridge on Jul 3, 2009
     | 3,071 views

    WORRIED THAT SHE'LL STOP CLAPPING David Buttrick tells of a baby who claps her hands over most anything. "Shove breakfast cereal in the front of her, you’ll get a hand clap. Sit her in a circle of toys, and she’ll break into applause. Her parents took her to the seashore to watch the waves roll ...read more

  • Don't Listen To Her

    Contributed by Doyle Hayes on Jul 7, 2009
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     | 3,629 views

    DON'T LISTEN TO HER A car tooling down the country road sputtered to a complete stop near a field filled with cows. The driver, getting out to see what was the matter, noticed a cow looking at him. "I believe it’s your radiator," said the cow. The startled man ran to the nearest farmhouse and ...read more

  • Treasure In Christ, But "Out Of Gas"  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 13, 2009
    based on 2 ratings
     | 3,798 views

    TREASURE IN CHRIST, BUT "OUT OF GAS" Several years ago, on New Year’s Day, a beautiful float in the Tournament of Roses parade suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the ...read more

  • Sister Who Complained That Her Sons Were Always ...

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 17, 2009
     | 1,105 views

    Andrew Carnehie had a sister who complained that her sons were always asking for money but once they got hhe money never replied to her letters. So Carnegie bet her £100 that he could get them to reply within a week. So he sat down and wrote to each of his nephews asking how they were. He ...read more