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| Little Johnny's Side
At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything, including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs.
Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as though ...
| Humor |
| The Mind of Christ
1 Corinthians 2: 14-16
14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 The person with the ...
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| Love and Hope
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
-- Gustave Flaubert
| Philosophy |
| The Sack
In the mid 1970s, Hacky Sack was invented by John Stalberger, a football player who used it to strengthen tendons he had torn in his knee, and Mike Marshall, who would die at 28 only a few years later.
| Sports Facts |
| Spirit Taught Words
1 Corinthians 10-13
10 The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 What we have ...
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| The Old Farmer's Mule
An old farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully. From morning till night she was always complaining about something. The only time he got any relief was when he was out plowing with his old mule.
One day, when he was out plowing, his wife brought ...
| Humor |
| Tranquility
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
-- Thomas Hobbes
| Philosophy |
| First in a Bad Trend
In 1974, future hall-of-famer Moses Malone became the first basketball player to go directly from high school to a professional American team when he played for the ABA's Spirits of St. Louis.
| Sports Facts |
| Message of Wisdom
1 Corinthians 2:6-10
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined ...
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| Mexican Weather Report
Q: What is the Mexican weather report?
A: Chili today and hot tamale.
| Humor |
| Doing Things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
| Philosophy |
| Rare Air
Scientists have estimated a fly ball will travel about seven feet further for every 1,000 feet of altitude. Coors Field in Denver, Colorado is 4000 feet higher than any other park in baseball, so you do the math.
| Sports Facts |
| God's Strength Through Man's Weakness
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ ...
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| Polish Cavalry
Q: How do you stop a Polish army on horseback?
A: Turn off the carousel.
| Humor |
| Bounding Democracy
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
-- Alexander Hamilton
| Philosophy |
| Ping Pong's Origins
Table tennis was originally played with balls made from champagne corks and paddles made from cigar-box lids. It was created in the 1880s by James Gibb, a British engineer who wanted an invigorating game he could play indoors when it was raining.
| Sports Facts |
| Boast In the Lord
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth.
27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame ...
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| RIch Girl Sneeze
Q: How does a rich girl sneeze?
A: Jimmy Choo!
| Humor |
| Japanese Surrender
We declared war on America and Britain out of Our sincere desire to ensure Japan's self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia, it being far from Our thought either to infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations or to embark upon territorial aggrandizement.
But ...
| Philosophy |
| Making Book
At horse race tracks, the favorite wins about 30 (or less) percent of the time.
| Sports Facts |
| The Foolishness of God
1 Corinthians 1:20-25
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, ...
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| Dog Dictionary, Vol. 2
GARBAGE CAN: A container which your neighbors put out once a week to test your ingenuity. You must stand on your hind legs and try to push the lid off with your nose. If you do it right you are rewarded with margarine wrappers to shred, beef bones to consume ...
| Humor |
| The Body's Purpose
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
-- Thomas A. Edison
| Philosophy |
| Early Ace
The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-in-one is Coby Orr (5 years) of Littleton, CO on the 103 yd fifth at the Riverside Golf Course, San Antonio, TX in 1975.
| Sports Facts |
| The Power of the Message
1 Corinthians 1:18-19
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent ...
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