Cybersalt News
There is a new Funny Military Picture on the Cybersalt Site today. You will find "Major Wedgie" at:
www.cybersalt.org/funny-pictures/major-wedgie
Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!
Today's CleanLaugh
Goober Return
If you are wondering what a Goober is, there is a picture of one here.
A goober walks up to the return counter at Walmart and says to the clerk, "I'd like to return this thermos."
"Is it defective?" replies the clerk.
"Yes," says the goober, "it does not work the way it's supposed to. I was told it would keep hot things hot, and cold things cold and it doesn't do either."
"What did you put in it?" asks the clerk.
The goober says, "Two cups of coffee and an ice cream sandwich."
Today's One-liner
One-liner #1019
If I was a mortician I'd tie the shoe laces of dead people together, so if there ever was a zombie apocalypse it would be hilarious.
Today's Clean Pun
Good for Nothing
"My dad is a doctor. I can get sick for nothing," bragged one little boy.
"Big deal," said his friend. "My dad is a minister, and I can be good for nothing."
Today's Quote
Quote #1467
"To trust God in the light is nothing, but to trust him in the dark - that is faith."
- C. H. Spurgeon
Today's Illustration
Squeezed
Walking through a park, I passed a massive oak tree. A vine had grown up along its trunk. The vine started small - nothing to bother about. But over the years the vine had gotten taller and taller. By the time I passed, the entire lower half of the tree was covered by the vine's creepers. The mass of tiny feelers was so thick that the tree looked as though it had innumerable birds' nests in it.
Now the tree was in danger. This huge, solid oak was quite literally being taken over; the life was being squeezed from it. But the gardeners in that park had seen the danger.
They had taken a saw and severed the trunk of the vine - one neat cut across the middle. The tangled mass of the vine's branches still clung to the oak, but the vine was now dead. That would gradually become plain as weeks passed and the creepers began to die and fall away from the tree. How easy it is for sin, which begins so small and seemingly insignificant, to grow until it has a strangling grip on our lives. And yet, Christ's death has cut the power of sin.
Yes, the "creepers" of sin still cling and have some effect. But sin's power is severed by Christ, and gradually, sin's grip dries up and falls away.
~ by J. Alistair Brown
Featured Illustrations are items well suited for illustrating or inspiring a point in a sermon, speech, or devotional. Funny, moving, or perhaps even graphic, the point of them is the point you make with them.
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