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Self-Focus
Hi, this is Joel Hunter and I'm here to remind you today of something you probably already know. It deals with our tendency to become very quickly self focused. One day I was with my three sons in the car and we were waiting on my wife Becky to come out of the store.
Listen NowUndefeated
Hi, this is Joel Hunter. And I'm here today to remind you of something you probably already know. It's about being undefeated. I heard a saying that goes like this when somebody tries to bury you. They will be surprised when they realize you were a seed.
Listen NowThe Love of God
Hi, this is Joel Hunter, and I want to remind you of something today. You probably already know. How good it is to realize the love of God. A long time ago, when I was in seminary, I was preaching in this little country church, and this small girl walks in with her, holding her mama's hand, and she just had this little red coat on, and I bent down, and I said, you are beautiful.
Listen NowWe Need Others
Hi, this is Joel Hunter. I'm going to remind you of something today that you probably already know. It's about lifes, embarrassing moments.
Listen NowAs Tall as I’m Gonna Get
Hi, this is Joel Hunter. I'm going to remind you of something today that you probably already know. It's about lifes, embarrassing moments.
Listen NowEverybody Needs Love
Hi, I'm Joel hunter. I'd like to remind you of something that you probably already know and it's about everybody's need for love. Heard a story some time ago about this father and son who had a terrible fight.
Listen NowSquirt Guns and Focus
As Joel Hunter, I'm here to remind you of something you probably already know. It's about focus. When I was growing up, they were just inventing squirt guns, and they really weren't very good.
Listen NowBerlin Wall
Hi, this is Joel Hunter. And I think the Lord sent me to you today to remind you of something you probably already know has to do with the difference between conflict and compassion.
Listen NowTwice Bought
A young boy spent many hours building a little sailboat, crafting it down to the finest detail. He then took it to a nearby river to sail it. When he put it in the water, however, it moved away from him very quickly, and though he chased it along the bank, he couldn't keep up with it.
Listen NowThermostat
Do you know the difference between a thermostat and a thermometer? A thermometer merely tells what the temperature is in any particular area. If your thermometer reads 70° and you place that thermometer in a room that is currently 80°, the thermometer will change to register whatever the room temperature is.
Listen NowThe Race
The Barcelona Olympics of 1992 provided one of track and Field's most incredible moments. Britain's Derrick Redman had dreamed all of his life of winning a gold medal in the 400 meter race, and his dream was insight as the gun sounded in the semifinals at Barcelona, he was running the race of his life and could see the finish line.
Listen NowThe Queen
The Queen of England often visited Bob Morrow Castle. On one occasion when she was walking by herself, it started to rain. She rushed to the shelter of the nearest cottage. A lady came to the door, who was really ticked off that someone would bother her at that time.
Listen NowThe Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci painted the fresco, the Last Supper in a church in Milan. And he had a great story behind that. One of the reasons the painting took four years to complete was that when Da Vinci was almost finished, a friend commented on how incredibly moving the painting was, especially the silver cup on the table.
Listen NowTelegraph
Back when the Telegraph was the fastest method of long distance communication. A young man applied for a job as a Morse code operator, answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the office address that was listed. And when he arrived he entered a large, busy office filled with noise and clatter, including the sound of the telegraph in the background.
Listen NowSheep
The beautiful green hills of New Zealand, a country known for its sheep industry. Are dotted everywhere with white sheep. During the yearly lambing season, thousands of baby lambs are born, and unfortunately some lambs die at birth.
Listen NowSharpen your ax
Some years ago, a young man looking for work approached a foreman of a logging crew and asked him for a job. Well, it depends, replied the foreman. Let's see you take this one down. The young man stepped forward and skillfully felled a great tree. The foreman was impressed in his claim.
Listen NowService
A man was out hiking in the mountains of Alaska and hoped to make it to camp before a deadly Blizzard hit. He was too late. The Blizzard struck with such a fury that he was unable to see even 2 feet in front of his face. The wind, blown snow and ice knocked him off his feet as he struggled to find his way.
Listen NowSacrifice
A chicken and a pig were walking down the street one day and noticed some poor children who looked as if they hadn't eaten anything for days. Moved with compassion, the chicken said to the pig, I have an idea. Let's give those children a nice breakfast of ham and eggs.
Listen NowRome and rocks
In 218 B.C., a king Hannibal stood atop the lofty alps and looked upon the mighty Roman empire. The kingdom he had come to destroy. Inflamed with hatred, he drove his tattered army down the mountain side. Before his quest for glory could be realized, however, he had to overcome the last obstacle blocking his path.
Listen NowRemoving rocks from sand box
A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him his box of cars and trucks, his plastic pail and the shiny red plastic shovel. In the process of creating roads and tunnels in the soft sand, he discovered a large rock in the middle of the sandbox.
Listen NowPuzzle
A family had a hobby of putting together jigsaw puzzles. The father regularly brought home puzzles of greater and greater difficulty. One night, he presented his family with a puzzle of over 1000 pieces. Immediately, they tackled it. After an hour, however, the family was frustrated.
Listen NowPerspective
Mr. and Mrs. Jones received this letter from their daughter Julie, a college freshman. Dear mom and Dad, I just thought I'd drop you a note to let you know what's going on with me. I've fallen in love with a guy named Blaze. He's a really neat guy, but he quit high school a few years ago to get married.
Listen NowLucky
The following notice was spotted in the lost and found section of the newspaper, Lost Dog $50 reward. Black and tan dog of poodle and German shepherd descent. Flea bitten, left hind leg missing, no hair on rump, blind and recently neutered. Answers to the name of Lucky.
Listen NowJewelry
One night, a group of thieves broke into a jewelry store, but rather than stealing anything, they simply switched all the price tags. The next day, no one could tell what was valuable and what was cheap. The expensive jewels had suddenly become cheap, and the costume jewelry, which had been virtually worthless before, was suddenly of great value.
Listen NowGood Advice
A young man was appointed to the presidency of a bank at the tender age of 32. The promotion was far beyond his wildest dreams and very frightening to him. So he went to the venerable old chairman of the board to ask for advice on how to become a good bank president.
Listen NowGlove
Amazingly, a glove can do all sorts of things. Pick up a book, wave goodbye, scratch my head, pat someone on the back, or slap somebody in the face. So this glove, though, can do nothing. If I take my hand out of it, however, all it does is lie there.
Listen NowGeese
Have you ever wondered why geese fly in a V formation? Well, scientists at Caltech did. They put their computers and flight simulators to work and discovered the answer. Flocks of geese formed this pattern because it's the easiest way to fly.
Listen NowFootprints in the sand
A story is told about a man who dreamed he was at the end of his life. He saw his life as if it were a walk along the beach with Jesus. He looked back over his life and he saw two sets of footprints in the sand along most of the way. One set belonged to him, the other to Jesus.
Listen NowFace the music
Have you ever heard the expression face the music? Here's how that phrase came about. Many years ago, a man wanted to play in the Imperial Orchestra, but he couldn't play in note. And since he was a person of great wealth and influence, however, he demanded to be allowed to join the orchestra so that he could perform in front of the king.
Listen NowThomas Edison
Biographers have written that Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made over 900 light bulbs that didn't work before he finally made one that did. 900 times he went to all the trouble of making a light bulb. Plugging it in, flipping the switch and watching while nothing happened. People must have thought he was nuts, but he kept on trying.
Listen NowCookies
While waiting at the airport terminal for her plane to begin boarding, a woman sat reading a newspaper. Earlier, she had purchased a package of cookies in the airport snack shop to eat, after she got on the plane. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed that the man sitting next to her was eating a cookie.
Listen NowConstruction Workers
Christopher Wren, who designed Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, one of the world's most beautiful buildings. Wrote about the reactions of construction workers who were asked what they were doing. Those workers who were bored and tired responded by saying, I'm laying bricks or I'm carrying stones.
Listen NowCircus
A little boy who lived far out in the country in the late 1800s had reached the age of 12 and had never in all his life seen a circus. You can imagine his excitement when one day a poster went up at school announcing that on next Saturday a traveling circus was coming to the nearby town.
Listen NowChopsticks
A little girl wanted to become a great pianist, but all she could play on the piano was a simple little tune, chopsticks. No matter how hard she tried, that was the best she could do. So her parents decided to give her a great maestro to teach her.
Listen NowBorn to Fly
One day a Prairie chicken found an egg and sat on it until it hatched. Unbeknownst to the prairie chicken, the egg was an eagle egg. Abandoned for some reason, and that's how an eagle came to be born into a family of prairie chickens.
Listen NowBlood Transfusion
A family was involved in a serious traffic accident. Mike, the youngest of the two brothers involved, was badly injured and needed a blood transfusion. Mike's big brother, Danny, who was only 8 years old, had the same blood type as his younger brother.
Listen NowBee Sting
A vacationing family drives along in their car windows rolled down, enjoying the warm breeze of the sunny day. And all of a sudden a big black bee darts in the window and starts buzzing around inside the car. A little girl, highly allergic to bee stings, cringes in the back seat.
Listen NowBaseball
A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard. He was wearing his baseball cap and toting a ball and a bat. "I'm the greatest hitter in the world", he announced. And then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it and missed. "Strike one!" he yelled.
Listen NowBeauty and the Beast
Do you remember the gripping scene in the animated Disney film Beauty and the Beast? When the Beast was about to confess his love to Belle? Cogsworth looks on with euphoric anticipation, for if Belle pledged her love to the beast, presto. The spell that hung over the castle like a dark, dank cloud of doom would finally be broken.
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