WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OF A PASTOR? Pastor Jones had served a church for more than thirty years and was loved by all. He was especially known for his gardening. Unfortunately, his replacement, Pastor Smith, didn’t know a spade from a hoe. One day a church member approached Pastor …
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Typing test A soldier was asked to report to headquarters for assignment. The sergeant said, “We have a critical shortage of typists. I’ll give you a little test. Type this,” he ordered, giving him a pamphlet to copy and a sheet of paper and pointing to a desk across the …
Offering Plates
The church I serve
has a summer ministry at a chapel. At our first service last summer, the
chairman of the board of deacons met me at the door with the information that
there were no offering plates to be found. None of the men wore hats, and he
thought it undignified to pass a shoe. He had tried to borrow something
suitable from a house nearby, but no one was home. When I went to the chancel
to begin the service, the problem was still unsolved.
Time came for the
offering, and two ushers walked down the aisle wearing broad grins and carrying
shiny receptacles. The deacon had resourcefully borrowed two hubcaps from a
parishioner’s car.
Be Realistic Recently launched into the “real world” and shocked by the expenses that came with it, my brother was complaining about the high cost of auto insurance. “If you got married,” teased my dad, “the premium would be much lower.” My brother smiled and said, “Dad, that would be …
Venus is the only planet in the solar system to spin backwards. Virgina Woolf wrote all of her books standing. Walt Disney got the idea for Mickey Mouse from watching mice play in a garage, where he was forced to work, because he could not afford to rent an art …
There’s a beautiful story about a little boy who couldn’t wait for his new baby sister to come home from the hospital. He couldn’t wait to be near her, to talk to her. But his parents didn’t want him to be left alone with her. After all he was only four years old, …
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~Carver George Washington
At the beginning of a New Year, a high school principal decided to post his teachers’ New Year’s resolutions on the bulletin board. As the teachers gathered around the bulletin board, a great commotion started. One of the teachers was complaining. “Why weren’t my resolutions posted?” She was throwing such a temper tantrum …
The Sphinx ( famous pyramid) was carved from one piece of stone. The South Pole is covered with 8,850 feet of solid ice. The South Pole was reached for the first time on 14 December 1911 by a team of explorers led by Roald Amundsen. The starfish is one of …
Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. ~Andrew Murray
