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At a convention a delegate once wore a homemade badge with the letters B.A.I.K. “What does this mean?” asked his friends. “Brother, am I confused!” said he. “But you don’t spell confused with a k.” “You don’t know how confused s am,” said the delegate. The Public Speaker’s Handbook of Humor, J. Edward…

A drummer, tired of being ridiculed by his peers, decided to learn how to play some “real” musical instruments. He went to a music store, walked in, approached the store clerk, and said, “I’ll take that red trumpet over there and that accordion.” The store clerk looked at him a bit funny, and replied…

Ed and Barb were browsing in a crafts store when Ed noticed a display of country-style musical instruments. After looking over the flutes, dulcimers and recorders, he picked up a shiny, one-stringed instrument he took to be a mouth harp. Ed put it to his lips and, much to the amusement of other shoppers,…

Tidbits of Wit George Gibbs, 23, suffered second- and third-degree burns on his head in Columbus, Ohio, in January. He had diagnosed his car's problem as a frozen fuel line, which he thought he could correct by running warm gasoline through it. He then tried to heat a two-gallon can of gasoline on a…

When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get…

The local sheriff was looking for a deputy, and one of the applicants - who was not known to be the brightest academically, was called in for an interview. "Okay," began the sheriff, "What is 1 and 1?" "Eleven," came the reply. The sheriff thought to himself, "That's not what I meant, but he's right."…

Why does God bring thunderclouds and disasters when we want green pastures and still waters? Bit by bit we find behind the clouds, the Father's feet; behind the lightning, an abiding day that has no night; behind the thunder, "a still, small voice" that comforts with a comfort that is unspeakable. --Oswald…

"The Paradox of Our Time" The paradox of our time in history is that: We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have…