Punishment necessary? Pupil: Would you punish someone for something that they didn’t do? Teacher: Of course not. Pupil: That’s good, because I haven’t done my homework. Good Maths The teacher came up with a good problem. “Suppose,” she asked the second-graders, “there were a dozen sheep and six of them …
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A Trip to Heaven Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal and says to the first man he meets, “Do you want to go to Heaven?” The man said, “I do, Father.” The priest said, “Then stand over there against the wall.” The priest asked the second man, “Do …
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Once upon a time there was a little dog who lived on abusy street corner. In die cold winter, in the hot Summer, she was always there. She watched every car stopped at the traffic light. I passed that corner ofter, almost everydaty. The times the red light caught me, I would often roll …
The following story comes from Julie Helms in Christian Reader, “Lite Fare”: My husband and I, with our two daughters, operate a small sheep farm. One day a non-farming friend asked, “How can you bear to slaughter those cute little lambs?” My husband explained, “We don’t want to get emotionally …
When he [the prodigal son] came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and …
Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of …
In Old Testament times almost all clothing was made from sheep’s wool. In New Zealand now, nearly all our 40 million sheep (only 4 million people!) are bred to be white. But in biblical times, most sheep were either brown, or black and white.
