A man came to his wife and said, "Honey, I want to confess a great sin." "What is it?" she asked. "The sin of pride," he answered, "Why this morning I just sat an hour before the mirror admiring how handsome I am."

When you look at a field of dandelions, you probably see weeds. When Peter Gail looks at it, he sees lunch. USA Today carried the story of the Dandelion Festival in Dover, Ohio. One enthusiastic participant is Peter Gail, an etho-botanist, who is called the "wizard of weeds." He eats 20 dandelions a day. Gail claims that the...

In 1914, a man named Ernest Shakelton placed the following words in a newspaper ad: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success." Would you respond to such an invitation? Enough men responded that Shakelton set sail for...

Mark Tonra's "James" in the comic strip asked his mother, "How'd you learn to be a Mom?" She replied, "I didn't." Not satisfied, James said, "Seriously." His mother said, "Seriously, I'm just winging it." James walked away saying, "Not what you want to hear." The fact is that there are no perfect parents. While dedicated parents...

Did you hear about the professor who was so absent-minded that when he fell down the stairs, he got up and said, "Wonder what all that noise was about?" All Christians need to work on their memories. In the Old Testament, the people of faith were often admonished to remember what the Lord had done for them. In the...

According to the Associated Press, prisoners of the Jackson County Jail in Oregon have found a new use for the Bibles that have been given them. This won't please the Gideons, but the inmates are so desperate to smoke that they tear out the pages of the Bibles and roll their cigarettes in them. While that disturbs us, it is not...

A wife went to the police station with her next-door neighbor to report that her husband was missing. The policeman asked for a description. She said, "He's 45 years old, 6 foot 3, has blue eyes, blond hair, an athletic build, weighs 185 pounds, is soft-spoken, and is good to the children." The next-door neighbor protested, "Your...

H.G. Wells once said, "If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters!" That ought to highlight our need to walk in God's ways, to talk in a fashion that pleases Him, and to think on those things that honor Him.

According to Ripley's Believe it or Not, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, cut off a great part of her hair after a quarrel with her husband. She then asked an artist to paint her with her new hairstyle with her holding the clump of cut hair. She thus immortalized the quarrel. Sometimes we have to let things go. How many of us are...

In his very entertaining book, Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand, Ross Pahres tells about a frontier preacher who was preaching against the sin of hatred. He asked anyone who had overcome hatred to stand. One elderly man stood up. The stunned preacher asked, "You don't hate anybody?" "No sir," replied the man. The preacher ...