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I love the word . I am sure we all do thats why were here and not myspace ,...that reminds me I have to check my myspace.....
But has anything in the Bible ever made you laugh?
God created you so He obviously has a sense of humor,....wait ,.. that didn't come out right.The point is He designed us with a mechanism that keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously.I always chuckle when reading certain Proverbs that totally pertain to today or when Jesus gets frustrated with the disciples and actually uses sarcasm..."How much longer must I endure you". Now thats funny!
He wants us to laugh. He does say that we needto mourn with those who mourn and yes there are many problems in this world but they are completely controllable by Him and He is fully aware of them. What He calls us to do individually may vary but He does want you to laugh.
So what makes you laugh ? Is there a particular passage that seems humorous to you and why ? |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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I like this verse; "And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry." (Matthew 4:2 NASB)
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Cathy ,,... too much ...yeah, thats not really a compliment....good name for an 80's Christian Band ...Flock of sheep
Zach ,..... I'm getting hungry just thinking about fasting... |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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1 Chronicles 26:18 (NASB) 18 At the Parbar on the west there were four at the highway and two at the Parbar.
Song of Solomon 7:4
"Your neck is like a tower of ivory, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,Which faces toward Damascus. |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Oh! I got the best one...talking donkeys!!
"But now the LORD opened the mouth of the ass..." Numbers 22:28
I think the funniest think is that Balaam answers right back at the donkey! if a donkey talks to me I would run away!!
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Fan tastic!!!!! All this stuff is going in my book ........
Since you all seem so cool ---see what you think of this one ...
They come to take Jesus away ...Peter cuts this dudes ear off ..(he's not havin it)
Jesus reaches down ,..gets the guards ear and puts it back on....THAT has always made me smile...its like a mother having to pick up after the kids ... you can just see the frustration on Christs face. He doesn't want to go but He is ready to go. Peter still doesn't get it. |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Song of songs 6:11. It's only funny to me in the King James
"I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits."
First, why would one expect fruits to be in a nut garden? And who has a nut garden? Second, that sounds like my house! Y'all come on down to our garden of nuts! We fruits will be waitin'! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Outrageous!!! SOO- Christianity is the breakfast cereal religion
Weve got fruits,nuts,and Flakes ! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Oh, OH! I forgot my favorite! The Message paraphrase has a bunch, but this one made our Christmas special:
"Look at that guy!
He had sex with sin,
he's pregnant with evil.
Oh, look! He's having
the baby—a Lie-Baby!"
A LIE BABY!!! My kids and I were rolling on the floor after that one! Even now if we think someone is stretching the truth a bit we start in on them: "Well, I think you're having a lie-baby!" It must be said with a maniacal tone or it just isn't funny.
....have I warped my kids forever?? |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Thats classic...all right now were doing different Versions so heres my fave....
Many people (including the publisher ) know that tyndale got alittle carried away with "The Living Bible"
Psalm 119:11 usually reads They word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path ....
No, Amy Grant didn't write that....
But the living Bible says,...
Your words are a flashlight to light the path ahead of me ......a FLASHLIGHT?
So if you have God you still need two duracells to see the way? |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| wow! what is this Living Bible thing? ha ha! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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The Living Bible was one of the first real contemporary versions of the Bible. Back in the 70's Tyndale published ... you see it a lot at thrift stores ... I have a stack of them that we use for nightly devotions ...just like my parents did with us.
Its great for Baby Christians or younger children.They even make a Catholic one.
But the message is a favorite latley. Tyndale re-did it a few years ago and cameupwith the living translation ...much better. |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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I like this one here...
Exodus 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Moses got mooned! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| lol |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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The one that made me laugh so hard, I cried was...
20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Isn't that funny? And here we complain when Pastor's go over 10 minutes! We can laugh, because he was later raised from the dead! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Rich - too much !!! lmfo
laughing my face off |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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You have to read into this one, but it is a funny thought. In the sermon on the mount, Jesus tells us to gouge our eyes out if they cause us to sin, why do you think he refers to the right hand causing you to sin? It's funny if you can figure it out. |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| All right easy .... this is a family show ... |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Rich you ain't right man! Well one that i think is funny (i recently wrote a blog about it) is 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead. 2:24 And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them. This sounds like something from a monty-python movie to me.
And then, I heard a man tell me one time that there won't be no women in heaven...he used this verse as proof. 8:1 And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
I ain't sayin that guy was right, but I know my wife cain't be quite for that long...hehehe. God bless.
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| July 20, 2007 |
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For some reason unbeknownst to me (and most other people as well for that matter), John Mark includes the following in his version of the arrest of Jesus:
51 Now a certain young man followed Him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body. And the young men laid hold of him, 52 and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked. (Mark 14:51-52)
Why did Mark feel it was important to include that detail? In fact I only noticed this, after years and years of bible reading, when our pastor called it to the congregation's attention to it in a sermon. I don't recall what the point of the sermon was. Anyway, I find this highly amusing.
Great idea for a blog Dan, this is fun! ~mike |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Mike - excellant - I missed that too.
Mullet man -YOU aint right...but I am going to use that 1/2 hour bit....
Go on up you bald head !
that passage is a favorite ... I love that thousands of years ago all they had for the dozens was baldness....I used to talk to youth about that ..calling out a man of God can get you malled |  |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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Mike,
I believe Mark was making a reference to himself. He was the man who ran away naked, barely escaping arrest. If that was you would you admit it. |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| LOL - good one Brad! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| That was a good one ! |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| People are breaking out commentaries to figure out the naked guy reference! :) | |
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| July 20, 2007 |
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| Mike, I ain't never really noticed that before, that is great! Reminds me of that old Ray Stevens song...DONT LOOK ETHEL!!! |
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| July 21, 2007 |
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| Great ! Somethings are only comicalin certain interpretations and someare funny because of the quote. |
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| July 22, 2007 |
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| Yes, The Bible has made me laugh. God does have a sence of humor. |
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| July 22, 2007 |
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what do u guys think God thought when he told joshua to walk around Jericho ( ha ha this is great hey Gabriel look at these goons i told umm to walk and so they do it this is great!)
or wat about Naaman when he had to go to the prophet to get told to go get dunked to get clean in a dirty river of the Jordan?
the bible kills me!
leah |
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| July 23, 2007 |
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| "Your teeth are like sheep..." -sons of songs 6:6 |
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| July 23, 2007 |
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| Dont even get me started on the disciples.... My dad used to say that Jesus did more with 12 dummies than the world did with all its intelligence |
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| July 24, 2007 |
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| Acts2:15 Some of you are saying these people are drunk.It isnt true!People dont get drunk by nine o'clock in the morning ! NLT | |
Too funny! I hope you folks are reading all the great stuff people have been putting on here.... If it all ends upon my comedy album I warn you the Bible is public domain - so you cant sue me ... seriously Great Stuff!!! | |
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| July 26, 2007 |
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Reading all this has been a great way to start my day - laughing. King, I'm sure you've gotten a wealth of material here and it will continue to rotate through MyChurch and gather more. A great blog idea and a blessing to all : A merry heart doeth good, like a medicine. I'll be back for another dose later. |
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| July 26, 2007 |
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Oh yes ! I am going to use it all and claim as original...allright I'll give you guys a little credit .
But The Lord gets all the glory ! |
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| July 27, 2007 |
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| True -a very funny story. Its actually hard to even tell it with a straight face. |
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| July 31, 2007 |
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Wow its cut-throat in here ... someone read my blog , didnt comment ,..then stole the idea for their own comments
Christian Comics believe that material falls under .."thou shalt not steal" | |
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| July 31, 2007 |
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Philippians 1:13--As a result it has become clear throughout the entire palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
I can just see Paul thinking as the shift changes and a new soldier is chained to his side for an 8 hour shift, "Now I have a captive audience!" |
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| August 01, 2007 |
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Dan, I haven't scanned all of the above so I'm not sure if anyone else has posted it, but here's another I ran across yesterday that amused me HIGHLY. Paul, writing to the Galatians...
5:12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves! Hahahaha.... ouch! |
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| August 01, 2007 |
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| Alice, someone else suggested this too. Interesting to speculate, isn't it? |
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| August 03, 2007 |
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10:27 And they demolished the pillar of Ba'al, and demolished the house of Ba'al, and made it a latrine to this day.
Making your enemies' false gods' temples into toilets...now that's justice. ;)
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| August 03, 2007 |
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Hahaha! That's so true. What really makes me laugh is when I look at the world around me. From the funny looking creatures He created to the ironic things the world does I always find myself amused with how stupid we can be. History repeats itself and I know that you hear that everywhere but we do nothing about it to stop or prolong it from repeating. Anyway, I'm so amused by everything in the world and even some things in the Bible. Well, that's all I got to say now...so... Byes! ~Drew 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired; 18:27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. Ouch, Philistine foreskins.... I can't believe he was serious....yuck...I wouldn't want to see that... |
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| August 05, 2007 |
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| As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Wow , thats a beauty!
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| August 23, 2007 |
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Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines......
Allright but I hope they dont shoot the messenger. | |
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| September 18, 2007 |
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I wondera bout the announcement to circumsize. That could'nt have gone well. |
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| October 12, 2007 |
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870 reads - 50 comments -whats a boy gotta do to get some feedback?
Thanks for all the help folks |
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