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| Warning Against Debt, part 2
Proverbs 6:6-11
6 Look to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
7/8 It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When ...
| Bible |
| Little Johnny and Obama Voters
After President Obama visited their classroom, the teacher asked her class how many of them would have voted for the president.
Not really knowing what this meant but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids except for Little Johnny raised their ...
| Humor |
| Right and Risk
Do right and risk the consequences.
-- Sam Houston
| Philosophy |
| Warning Against Debt, part 1
Proverbs 6:1-5
1 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,
2 you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.
3 So do this, my son, to free yourself, since ...
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| Little Johnny Meets the President
President Barack Obama was visiting a primary school in North Carolina and he visited a fourth grade class.
They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings and the teacher asked the president if he would like to lead the discussion ...
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| Downfall of Socialism
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
-- Margaret Thatcher
| Philosophy |
| Shedding of Blood
Genesis 9:5-7
5 For your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.
6 "Whoever sheds human blood, by humans ...
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| Ugly Baby
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest baby that I've ever seen. Ugh!"
The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming.
She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me!"
The man says: ...
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| Possessions
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body.
-- George Carlin
| Philosophy |
| Replacing Judas
Acts 1: 15-20
15 Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)
16 and said, “Brothers and sisters, the Scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas, who served ...
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| Hunting Accident
Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed.
The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps, "My friend is dead! What can I do?"
The operator says ...
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| Law and Words
One of the problems with law is that it repurposes old terms like "theft", "property", and "trespass" rather than making new ones.
-- Michael Feathers
| Philosophy |
| Running the Race
Hebrews 12: 1-3
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
2 fixing our eyes on ...
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| What Do You Call 2
Q: What do you call two guys who stand quietly by your window?
A: Curt and Rod
(Say it fast!)
| Humor |
| Why We Run
In honor of the victims of yesterday's craven terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon:
"I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and ...
| Philosophy |
| Psalm 5, part 2
Psalm 5:8-11
8 Lord, I have many enemies. Lead me in your right path. Make your way smooth and straight for me.
9 Not a word from their mouths can be trusted. Their hearts are filled with plans to destroy others. Their throats are like open graves. With ...
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| When to Laugh
The one who laughs last is the slowest, whereas the one who laughs first has the dirtiest mind.
| Humor |
| On family
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
-- George Bernard Shaw
| Philosophy |
| God's Charge to Noah
Genesis 9:1-2
1 Then God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons. He said to them, "Have children and increase your numbers. Fill the earth."
2 "All of the land animals will be afraid of you. All of the birds of the air will fear you. Every creature that ...
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| Country Kinfolk
Susie Lee done fell in love, She planned to marry Joe. She was so happy 'bout it all, She told Pappy so.
Pappy told her, Susie gal, You'll have to find another, I'd just as soon yo' Ma don't know, but Joe is yo' half brother.
So Susie put aside Joe ...
| Humor |
| Owning the Constitution
We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution.
-- Abraham Lincoln
| Philosophy |
| The Promiscuous Woman Brings Death
Proverbs 5:5-9
5 The feet of a promiscuous woman go down to death; her steps take hold of Hades, the place of the dead.
6 She loses sight of and walks not in the path of life; her ways wind about aimlessly, and you cannot know them.
7 Now therefore, ...
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| Income Inequality
There is nothing morally or economically wrong with earned inequality. If someone produces more, he deserves more.
-- Don Watkins
| Philosophy |
| Blonde Tonsillectomy
When the surgeon came in to look check on the blonde after her operation, she hesitated but finally asked him how long it would be before she could resume her sex life.
"Err, I really haven't given it much thought," replied the surprised doctor.
"It's ...
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| Guard Against the Promiscuous Woman
Proverbs 5:1-4
1 My son, be attentive to my Wisdom and incline your ear to my understanding,
2 that you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer to temptation.
3 For the lips ...
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