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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 4, 2021 11:21:19 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 4, 2021 11:22:26 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 4, 2021 11:23:16 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 4, 2021 11:24:43 GMT
A member of the church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor's visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited. The pastor made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still silent. The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone ember's flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead. Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. The pastor glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow, once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it. As the pastor reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running down his cheek, “Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the fiery sermon. I will be back in church next Sunday.' We live in a world today, which tries to say too much with too little. Consequently, few listen. Sometimes the best sermons are the ones left unspoken.
This is another Truth one that isn't funny.
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Post by stickinthemud on Jan 4, 2021 16:20:57 GMT
Thanks, Rustaholic.
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 5, 2021 11:25:14 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 5, 2021 11:27:23 GMT
A talking fish? I wouldn't eat it but I would keep it and make a lot of money showing it off.
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 5, 2021 11:29:25 GMT
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Post by Tallpines on Jan 6, 2021 1:01:08 GMT
December 28, 2015 ·
One dark night outside a small town in Minnesota, a fire started inside the local chemical plant and in a blink of an eye it exploded into massive flames. The alarm went out to all the fire departments for miles around.
When the volunteer fire fighters appeared on the scene, the chemical company president rushed to the fire chief and said, "All our secret formulas are in the vault in the center of the plant. They must be saved. I will give $50,000 to the fire department that brings them out intact."
But the roaring flames held the firefighters off.
Soon more fire departments had to be called in as the situation became desperate. As the firemen arrived, the president shouted out that the offer was now $100,000 to the fire department who could bring out the company's secret files.
From the distance, a lone siren was heard as another fire truck came into sight. It was the nearby Norwegian rural township volunteer fire company composed mainly of Norwegians over the age of 65. To everyone's amazement, that little run-down fire engine roared right past all the newer sleek engines that were parked outside the plant.
Without even slowing down it drove straight into the middle of the inferno. Outside, the other firemen watched as the Norwegian old timers jumped off right in the middle of the fire fought it back on all sides. It was a performance and effort never seen before.
Within a short time, the Norske old timers had extinguished the fire and had saved the secret formulas. The grateful chemical company president announced that for such a superhuman feat he was upping the reward to $200,000, and walked over to personally thank each of the brave fire fighters.
The local TV news reporter rushed in to capture the event on film, asking their chief, "What are you going to do with all that money?"
"Vell," said Ole Larsen, the 70-year-old fire chief, "Da first thing ve gonna do is fix da brakes on dat focking truck!
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Post by Tallpines on Jan 6, 2021 2:20:25 GMT
WHY OUR HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE SO HIGH!!!
Bubba had shingles.
Those of us who spend much time in a doctor's office should appreciate this! Doesn't it seem more and more that physicians are running their practices like an assembly line?
Here's what happened to Bubba: Bubba walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. Bubba said: 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat.
Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, 'Shingles' So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told Bubba to wait in the examining room.
A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, 'Shingles..' So the nurse gave Bubba a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.
An hour later the doctor came in and found Bubba sitting patiently in the nude and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, 'Shingles.' The doctor asked, 'Where?'
Bubba said, 'Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to unload 'em??'�
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 6, 2021 11:48:47 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 6, 2021 11:50:00 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 6, 2021 11:51:42 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 7, 2021 11:31:51 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 7, 2021 11:33:50 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 7, 2021 11:35:22 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 8, 2021 11:13:20 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 8, 2021 11:14:13 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 8, 2021 11:15:34 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 9, 2021 12:00:30 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 9, 2021 12:01:33 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 9, 2021 12:03:17 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 10, 2021 11:29:41 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 10, 2021 11:31:12 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 10, 2021 11:32:26 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 11, 2021 11:19:57 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 11, 2021 11:21:23 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 11, 2021 11:23:33 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 12, 2021 11:38:24 GMT
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Post by Rustaholic on Jan 12, 2021 11:39:30 GMT
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