Showing posts with label A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

At Least We're Hones Around Here Story

     The latest modern addition to our school was the automatic Coca Cola dispenser standing right next to the door to the mess.
      One day, three lively boys came hurdling down the stairs so fast that one of them accidentally bumped against the dispenser and lo and behold, a free bottle of coke popped out."Hey That's what I call fast service, "said Joe.

Friday, March 19, 2010

STORY: Approachableness by William Barclay

Story title: Approachableness 
by William Barclay

      The Gospel story about the mothers bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed, tells the kind of person he was. Children would go to him. That is no small compliment. Many big men scare children away.
      A famous preacher once said that no one could be a follower of Jesus some people nowadays would, "They're only kids; don't bother about them."
   

STORY: Achievement by Edmund Bok

 Story title: Achievement
By: Edmund Bok

     There is a legend about an Indian chief who used to test the strength of his young braves by challenging them to climb up the side of the mountain as far as they could go without stopping. On an appointed day, four braves left at daybreak.
     The first returned with the branch of a spruce tree to show how high he had gotten. The second

Monday, March 15, 2010

STORY: A Prophet Away From Home by Jacob Braude

Story title: A Prophet Away From Home
By: Jacob Braude


     They tell this story about Nikita Kruschev, the former heavy set
head of Russia. He went to his tailor and asked him to make him a three
piece suit. The tailor took the big man's extensive measurements, then
measured the cloth Kruschev had brought along, and said that he did not
have enough cloth for a three piece suit. All he could make of it would be
trousers and a coat.
     Krushshev was unhappy and took back his cloth. Within a few days

Thursday, February 25, 2010

STORY: Albert Einstein's Old Clothes by Bert Balling

Story title: Albert Einstein's 
By: Bert Balling

   The genius of our century, Albert Einstein, had an innate dislike for new clothes. Not that he couldn't afford them or enjoy the new styles. No; it was just that he felt more comfortable in old clothes. And how he hated shopping for clothes: comparing them, trying them on, being measured for them.
    But his wife kept pestering him to get rid of his threadbare suit and go out and buy a new one. So

Thursday, February 18, 2010

STORY: A Home Is Where

Story title: A Home Is Where

    A real estate agent met a very modern woman, who had grown up in a big city. He tried to interest her in buying a new home.
    "A home!" she snapped."Why do I need a home? I was born in a hospital, grew up in boarding schools, was educated in a college, did my company keeping in automobiles, and was married in a church.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

STORY A Long Letter From God by Bert Balling

Story title: A Long Letter From God 
by Bert Balling

    In the third century, a monk called Antony lived a lifetime all alone in the endless desert of Egypt. Despite his isolation, he kept up a lively correspondence with many of the prominent personalities of the day. Emperor Constantine would write to ask for his advice. Other hermits would write asking for his prayers.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Are You A Worrier? Nice Story

This woman was so worried and anxious about her health condition. Because her grandmother died of a stroke and her father also suffered from a stroke before passing away, she presumed that one day she would experience the same fate as her grandma and dad. She was informed by her mother that once she feels any numbness in her lower legs or extremities she has to fight it and wake herself up