A good samaritan was walking home late one night when he came upon a drunk on the sidewalk. Wanting to help, he asked the drunk, "Do you live here?" "Yep." "Would you like me to help you upstairs?" "Yep." When they got up on the second floor, the good person asked "Is this your floor?" "Yep." Then

A henpecked husband was advised by a psychiatrist to assert himself. "You don't have to let your wife bully you," he said. "Go home and show her you're the boss." The husband decided to take the doctor's advice. He went home, slammed the door, shook his fist in his wife's face, and growled, "From

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 each one labeled. Hatred, malice, envy, despair, sickness, sensuality - all the weapons that everyone

George Atley was killed while serving with the Central African Mission. There were no witnesses, but the evidence indicates that Atley was confronted by a band of hostile tribesmen. He was carrying a fully loaded, 10-chamber Winchester rifle and had to choose either to shoot his attackers and run th

Ruth Harms Calkin does a masterful job on the subject of humility in her poem: I Wonder You know, Lord, how I serve you with great emotional fervor in the limelight. You know how eagerly I speak for You at a Women's Club. You know my genuine enthusiasm at a Bible study. But how would I react, I w

A police dog responds to an ad for work with the FBI."Well," says the personnel director, "You'll have to meet some strict requirements. First, you must type at least 60 words per minute."Sitting down at the typewriter, the dog types out 80 words per minute."Also," says the director, "You must pass

In the fifteenth century, the Aztec people practiced human sacrifice on an unprecedented scale. They believed that human sacrifices were necessary to fuel the sun, and without such sacrifices the forces of darkness would overpower their sun god, Huizilopochtli. The Aztecs mostly sacrificed pris

Golfer: "Well, I have never played this badly before!Caddy: "I didn't realize you had played before, sir." Golfer: "Do you think I can get there with a 5-iron?"Caddy: "Eventually." Golfer (screaming): "You've got to be the worst caddy in the world!"Caddy: "I doubt it. That would be too much of a

Two frogs fell into a can of cream - or so I've been told.The sides of the can were shiny and steep,The cream was deep and cold,"Oh, what's the use?" said No. 1,"tis fate - no help's around - Good-bye, my friend! Good-bye, sad world!"And weep still, he drowned.But No. 2 of sterner stuff, Dog paddles

General Oglethorpe once said to John Wesley, "I never forgive and I never forget." To which Wesley responded, "Then Sir, I hope you never sin." Very apt, for when we reflect on how much God has forgiven us, it makes our own little grudges against others seem rather petty.