Gertie the church gossip kept sticking her nose into the other members’ private lives and spreading false rumors. Church members didn’t like it but didn’t know what to do. Gertie made a mistake when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his pickup truck parked in front of the…
An elementary school teacher tried a little experiment with her students. She asked them to bring one tomato to school for each person who had been mean to them. They were to put the tomatoes in a plastic bag and carry them everywhere for a week. Some children had several tomatoes in their bags and…
One Sunday morning Jimmy was wondering why his friend Bobby was not at the game. By the time Bobby arrived, the game was well under way. “Why are you so late?” asked Jimmy. “I couldn’t decide between going to church and going to the game. So I tossed a coin,” said Bobby. “But that shouldn’t…
A young Christian man was working for a large corporation where he saw some very unscrupulous behavior. He didn’t want to be a part of it! He quit his job, withdrew his savings and moved back to his hometown. After he had been there a while, looking for a new job, he found out that…
A man stood up at a prayer meeting to give his testimony. He said that as a young man he had been down on his luck. He was recently divorced, had lost his job and was homeless. He was down to his last dollar. He decided to go to church to ask for God’s help. …
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said. We no longer threaten to wash the mouths of children out with soap for using bad words, but maybe it’s some adults who need it more anyway. Children learn what they say and do from observing others. Unfortunately,…
The above is a question made famous by Dr. Phil McGraw of the Dr. Phil show on TV. When people are having problems in their relationships, he likes to ask how their strategy for getting along is working for them. Quite often the guest being interviewed suddenly has to admit that it is not working…
According to a traditional Hebrew story, Abraham was sitting outside his tent one evening when he saw an old man, weary from age and the journey, coming toward him. Abraham rushed out, greeted the man and invited him into his tent. There he washed the old man’s feet and gave him food and drink. The…
“Women worry that men will forget everything. Men worry that women will remember everything.” Yes, it’s a joke, but unfortunately, these kinds of perceptions are all too often perpetuated in our current culture where putting each other down is a common occurrence. We’ve all heard wives and husbands make pointed jokes at their spouses’ expense,…
A fire started in the grasslands close to a farm. The volunteer fire department was called. The volunteers arrived in a dilapidated old fire truck. They rumbled straight toward the fire, drove right into the middle of the flames, and stopped! The firefighters jumped from the truck and frantically started spraying water in all directions. …