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Here are the first names AND a clue to help you identify some famous brothers. They get harder the further you go. Bet you can’t figure out the FAMILY NAME of them all. _______ Orville and Wilbur had the right stuff _______ Paul, Nicholas and Joseph are heartthrobs today _______…

Was told that a precious little girl walked into a pet shop last Saturday (the day before Easter) and asked, “Excuthe me, thir, do you have any widdle bunny wabbits?” The shopkeeper’s heart melted. He got down on his knee so that he was on her level, and said, “Do…

How special is your zip code? In 1963 the US Postal System launched its “Zone Improvement Plan” – a five-digit code (called by acronym “ZIP”) to help speed sorting and delivery of mail. Like prime pieces of real estate, a user-friendly ZIP is based on location, location, location. The codes…

Dr. Stearns was preaching in Philadelphia. At the close of the service a stranger came to him and said, “I don’t like the way you spoke about the cross. I think that instead of emphasizing the death of Christ, it would be far better to preach Jesus, the Teacher and…

God loves me. Why? His choice and His grace alone; nothing about me deserves either His grace or love. Rather than leave me in my sin, He sent his own son, Jesus, to pay the penalty my sin demanded. Although Jesus lived a sinless life, he died in my place.…

[Selected wit and wisdom of a Founding Father] Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. God heals and the doctor takes the fee. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. If you would…

[Keeping with our theme this week of the Revolutionary War, here are some fun questions for the younger generation to ask their teachers] What happened as a result of the Stamp Act? The Americans licked the British! Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from Boston to Lexington? Because the…

The Founding Fathers were sitting around a table sometime during the Revolutionary War, working on the Constitution for a new nation. It had been a long day. We can imagine the conversation . . . Thomas Jefferson: “Whew! It’s getting rather warm in here, isn’t it?” Ben Franklin: “Shall I…

[Everyone knows about Paul Revere on the 18th of April of ’75 and his midnight ride. Few know the less familiar story of what happened the night before.] Paul Revere had just discovered that someone in Boston was a spy for the British. When he saw the young woman believed…

I asked God for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn to humbly obey. I asked for help that I might do greater things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy; I…

A bus driver was conducting a tour of famous Civil War battle sites. “Here,” he points out at one spot, “is where only a handful of Southern troops routed a whole regiment of Yankees.” As he continued the tour, he added, “Over there, the Rebs wiped out a whole company…

[This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Late Great Unpleasantness. Here is a cute story about a Civil War soldier] A soldier had lost his bayonet and whittled one from wood so he could stand inspection. He was hoping not to be discovered until the regiment had gone into…

[Remembering the 150th anniversary of the start of the War of Northern Aggression, we include an actual bit of humor from the period] Two privates were discussing how inedible the hardtack was. One commented, “Say Bill, I hear the first sergeant of Company A bit into his hardtack yesterday and…