[Actual instruction labels found on products] ON A HAIR DRYER: Do not use while sleeping. = ON A BAG OF FRITOS: You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. = Details inside. ON A BAR OF DIAL SOAP: Directions: Use like regular soap. = ON A FROZEN…
06/17/19 Grif.Net – Phrases I Miss Hearing
[In honor of = Father’s Day, Donna sent me these pithy little phrases from Dad. = Do any of these sound familiar to you?] "Do it to = make your mother happy." "Were you = raised in a barn? Close the door!" "You = didn’t beat me…
06/15/19 Weekend Grif.Net – Praying for Persecuted Believers
Here are 10 = specific ways you can pray today for members of our persecuted Christian = family: 1. Pray = they will sense God’s presence = (Heb. 13:5) For [God] has said, "I will never leave you nor = forsake you." 2. Pray = they will…
06/14/19 Grif.Net – Phrases We Often Hear in Church
[As a pastor, I am pleased with hearing such phrases all the = time. Ah, often. Or once in a while. Well, in my = dreams.] > “Hey! It’s my turn to sit in the front = row.” > “I was so enthralled, I never noticed your sermon…
06/13/19 Grif.Net – Good Meal
Lost on a rainy night, a nun stumbled across a monastery and requested = shelter there. Fortunately, she was just in time for dinner and was = treated to the best fish and chips she’d ever had. = After dinner, she stopped by the kitchen to thank the chefs…
06/12/19 Grif.Net – Status Updates of my Friends
From Cynthia: = “With all this rain, I think we need to build an ark. But = don’t worry, I Noah guy.” From Josh: = “Congratulations to the 2019 High School Graduates on getting thru = the easiest part of life.” From Maria: = “I thought my dryer…
06/11/19 Grif.Net – Ten Unanswerable Questions
1. Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it? = 2. Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use, the = bubbles are always white? 3. Is there ever a day when mattresses are not on = sale?…
06/10/19 Grif.Net – Another Batch of Real Headlines
>Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers = >Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case >Survivor of Siamese Twins Joins Parents >Farmer Bill Dies in House >Iraqi Head Seeks Arms >President Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead = >Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim…
06/08/19 Weekend Grif.Net – One Day It will be You
“Twice = this week, I have watched an elderly individual fade into the busy life = in which we all live. One man just needed Panadol for his wife but the = shop assistant simply said it’s in aisle ‘6’. He = struggled to navigate the supermarket and as I…
06/07/19 Grif.Net – Which Sermon?
One beautiful Sunday morning at the beginning of summer, a minister = announced to his congregation: "My good people, I have here in my hands three sermons: a $500 = sermon that lasts five minutes, a $100 sermon that lasts fifteen = minutes, and a $20 sermon that lasts…
06/06/19 Grif.Net – Pray Like Mama
A fellow-pastor wrote . . . As a minister, my wife and I get = invited to many dinners. At the table, the hostess turned to her six-year-old daughter and = said, "Would you like to say the blessing?" = "I don’t know what to say," the girl…
06/05/19 Grif.Net – Shoe Repair
Arnold and his wife were cleaning out the “junk drawer” in = the kitchen one day when he came across a ticket from the local shoe = repair shop. The date stamped on the ticket showed that it was over = eleven years old. They both laughed and tried…
06/04/19 Grif.Net – Get Even
In our shop, our clerk asked the customer, "Cash, check or = charge?" after adding up her purchase. The woman fumbled through her purse, pulling out its contents in = search of her credit card. Included were a wallet, compact, glasses and = a television remote control. The…