Contributed by Loyd C. Taylor on Aug 8, 2024
                
                
                
                    Illustration: Fixing My Face
While on a hiking trip for the first time, Dad noticed his little boy kneeling at the spring looking at his distorted reflection in the water. He observed his son taking both hands and pushing his face this way and that. 
His dad said, “What’s wrong Son?”
His son
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 22, 2025
                
                
                
                    A Welshman, Scot and Englishman are walking when they come across a lantern and a genie pops out and grants them one wish each.
The Scot says: “I am a sheep herder, like my dad before me. I want my country to be full of lovely sheep farms.”  Whoosh, and so it was.
The Englishman was amazed and
                    
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                    There was once a pastor who had a little five year old daughter.  Now the little girl notice that every time her dad stood behind the pulpit, and was getting ready to preach he would bow his head for moment before he began to preach.  The little girl noticed that he did this every time. 
  So one
                    
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                    Contributed by Norman Lawrence on Mar 25, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Among the prisoners in Kushner’s POW camp was a tough young marine, 24 years old, who had already survived two years of prison-camp life in relatively good health.  Part of the reason for this was the camp commander had promised to release the man if he cooperated.  Since this had been done before
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A mother told her son not to go swimming.  However, when he came into the house his mother noticed that his hair and bathing suit were wet.   "Johnnie," his mother scolded, "I told you not to go swimming."    "I couldn’t help it mom," he defended himself.  "The water looked so good."    "But why
                    
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                    Contributed by Evie Megginson on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    J. Vernon McGee tells the story of the Negro boy down in my Southland years ago, wanted to join a church.  So the deacons were examining him.  They asked, "How did you get saved?"  His answer was, "God did His part, and I did my part." They thought there was something wrong with his doctrine, so
                    
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                    Contributed by Wayne Major on Apr 5, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A story is told of two men who worked in the audit department of a large bank.  They made an overnight trip to a distant branch of the bank, and were dining in a local restaurant.  The chief auditor told the other man, “First we’ll hit the tellers, and then get the vault.”  They arrived at the bank
                    
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                    Contributed by Greg Warren on Apr 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Good afternoon,
   I am God.  Today I will be handling all of your problems.  Pleae remember that I do not need your help.  If the devil happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, DO NOT attempt to resolve it.  Kindly put it in the SFJTD (something for Jesus to do) box.  It will
                    
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                    Contributed by Rita Sims on May 2, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Not long ago, I was visiting with a young woman who had served in the military.  She was stationed in Cuba.  She didn’t like it there at all.  She had recently gone through a traumatic divorce.  Now, she was separated from her country and from her family in Cuba, of all places.  She hated it and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    While flyling home from a pastor’s conference I was getting in my seat buckling in and getting ready for the push back from the gate and taxi. I was reading a very interesting article in a business magazine when the flight attendant began to speak. Good morning ladies and gentelman welcome aboard
                    
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                    Did you hear about the two guys who were marooned on a desert island?  After a year they couldn’t stand each other.  One day Rufus found an old green bottle washed up on the shore.  He rubbed it, and, voila! – a genie appeared.  George saw what was happening, and grabbed the bottle – Gimmie a wish,
                    
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                    In the 18th Century, Selina Countess of Huntington invited the Duchess of Buckingham to come and here George Whitfield preach.
The Duchess wrote to the Countess of Huntington about the Gospel that Whitefield and his fellow “Methodists” preached as follows:
“ It is monstrous to be told that you
                    
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                    Contributed by Ray Mckendry on Aug 28, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illustration: Free From Worry
Donald Trump, the famous businessman, has many millions of
dollars. What a friend to have, eh? There is a story about
Trump’s generosity with a stranger. It is said that Trump’s
limousine broke down on the Garden State Parkway. An
unemployed car mechanic stopped to
                    
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                    Contributed by Dana Chau on Sep 2, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Someone told of a church that believed in sinless perfection once you trusted Jesus Christ into your life and were baptized.  A visitor to that church heard this teaching and asked to be baptized.  He was tired of dealing with his habitual sin without any success.  Unfortunately, it was in the
                    
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                    Contributed by Neal Gray on Oct 10, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One of my favorite movies of all time is one called, "Anne of Green Gables." The main character is a small girl who, through tragic circumstances, finds herself living in a foster home. The foster parents turn out to be a huge blessing to Anne, (that’s "Anne with an ’e’," if you please), but she
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The most classic example of a modern servant leader was Sam Walton.  He despised corporate fat cats.  He could, and would, handle the cash register as well as stock the shelves in any of his Wal-Mart stores.  He drove an old, rusty, dented pickup not to prove a point but because it still had plenty
                    
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