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Lets be honest. English is a quite silly language. There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger, and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England. French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted, but…

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. As soon as…

Some years ago my family and I visited Egypt. Did the pyramids, Egyptian Museum (with King Tut treasures), the Sphinx, etc. At a bazaar shop we were told that many of the items on sale were cheap reproductions for tourists, but others were genuine. Holding up a curious find, I…

Some years ago the president of a Baptist College shared some humor about the number of the beast. He said, “If you can’t laugh at Satan and make fun of the Beast, you have problems.” So from his sermon illustration comes . . . 666 Mark of the Beast 668…

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…