A cowboy walks into a bar in Texas, orders three mugs of Bud and sits in the back room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more. T...
Terry Fator combines impressions with ventriloquism. He vaulted to fame by winning "America's Got Talent" and received one of the most lucrative contracts in Las Vegas entertainment history....
On Friday April 14, 2000 the stock market took a dramatic fall. Hardest hit were the technology stocks. In that one day Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, lost eleven bi...
In his great painting The Blue Cloak Peter Bruegel has incorporated at least 78 proverbs, maxims, rhymes and symbols. One shows a woman carrying fire in her right hand and a bucket of water in the lef...
During the 1980s the Chrysler Corporation faced a financial crisis so great that many feared that it would go bankrupt. One step that chairman Lee Iacocca took during this period was to reduce his ...
The preacher gives a human voice to the divine word so that others will hear from God. ...
David Jeremiah wrote: “When missionary Amy Carmichael went to India, she suffered from acute, prolonged loneliness and homesickness. The other missionaries tried to be kind to her, but they were busy ...
"The grave is the end. This brief life is all that we have." There are a lot of people who believe that today. Let me put it in the eloquent words of Bertrand Russell, one of the spokesmen for those w...
An evangelist told the following story in one of his campaigns. He said, "I have a friend who during the depression lost a job, a fortune, a wife, and a home, but tenaciously held to his faith...
Martin of Tours, lived in France in the fourth century. His biographer tells this story. Before Martin became a bishop he served in the army. One cold day he met a poor man who had no clothes. Having ...
It was the first day of school. As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms. He rushed in and spotted one boy, taller than the others, who seemed ...
Chuck Swindoll has said, "Dad is not perfect; he would be the first to admit it. Nor is he infallible, much to his own disappointment. Nor altogether fair … nor always right. But there's one thi...
"Peter!" his mother scolded, "There were two cookies in the pantry this morning but now there's only one! Do you have an explanation?" Peter replied, "It must have been too dark and I didn't see the ...
Eric C. Redmond
How does God want you to respond when you are wronged, when you are in need of vindication?...
A teacher was trying to teach a group of college students how to deal with some "story problems" when she said, "If you had $23 in one pocket and $56 in the other pocket, what would you have?" One stu...
There is an old tale, attributed to Aesop, concerning a man who had two wives, one old and one young. The man was getting gray. His younger wife did not want to be confused for his daughter, so when h...
Life is filled with apparent contradictions. Upon entering a U.S. Airbase one sees a large sign: Peace is our Profession. Well, actually war is their profession, but one could argue that being prepare...
A father took his little boy to a pet shop to pick out a puppy for his birthday present. For half an hour he looked at the assortment in the window. "Decided which one you want?" asked his Dad...
Satan's Discouragement There's an old fable that says the Devil once held a sale and offered all the tools of his trade to anyone who would pay their price. They were spread out on the table and eac...