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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

One-liners and other humo[u]r :-)

One-Liners : Punctual people have nothing better to do. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. Due to budget constraints and energy conservation, the light at the end of the When a girl says “No” she really means “Yes”, but […]

Auto Air-Conditioning

The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, & Max, invented & developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office & sweet talked his secretary into telling him that four gentleman were there with the most exiting innovation […]

DEEP QUESTIONS

1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? 3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something […]

Irish Millionaire :-)

Mick, from Dublin ,appeared on  ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’  and towards the end of the program  had already won 500,000 pounds. “You’ve done very well so far,”  said Chris Tarrant,  the show’s presenter,  “but for a million pounds  you’ve only got one life-line left  ¢â‚¬“  phone a friend.   Everything is riding on this question…..  will you go for it?” “Sure,” said Mick. […]

The Apostle Paul: “Rejected”

Based on Bill Britton’s classic; modified and expanded by Dean VanDruff. MYSTERY BABYLON DENOMINATION FOREIGN MISSIONS BOARD To: Rev. Saul Paul First Christian Church Antioch, Syria Dear Mr. Paul: I have your application for missionary appointment before me, and will be as frank as possible concerning your qualifications as a foreign missionary. We have to […]

Little Old Ladies :-)

Hope this touches you the way it touched me! GOODBYE MOM A young man shopping in a supermarket noticed a little old lady following him around. If he stopped, she stopped. Furthermore she kept  staring at him. She finally overtook him at the checkout, and she turned to him and said, “I hope I haven’t made […]

Husbands are not good for nothing :-)

Visitor in Kabul, Afghanistan, before the Afghan conflict noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands. She recently returned to Kabul & observed that women still walk behind their husbands, despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime. She asked, ‘Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once […]

An Old Nun

An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction site noticed the coarse language of  the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways. She decided she would take her lunch, sit with the workers and talk with them. She put her sandwich  in a brown bag and […]

WISDOM :-)

* Always remember you’re unique. Just like everyone else. * If you think nobody cares whether you’re alive or dead, try missing couple of mortgage payments. * Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize hem, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. * […]

SLOW DAY IN TEXAS

It’s a slow day in a little East Texas town.   The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit……On this particular day a rich tourist from back east is driving through town.   He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill […]