Welcome to today’s reflection.
Today I reflect on some of the surprisingly funny moments in Scripture, and why taking the Bible seriously doesn’t mean we have to read it with a straight face.
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I love the Bible for all the inspiration, wisdom and guidance it has brought me over the years. But there is something else about it that I think Christians sometimes overlook. It is quirky, occasionally downright bizarre and, in places, actually very funny. I mean, laugh-out-loud kind of funny.
I suspect that in my younger years, I would have been a little reluctant to admit that. After all, we are supposed to take Scripture seriously, aren’t we? Yet the more I read it, the more I have come to appreciate its humour, and these days I am happy to embrace it.
It has been a heavy week here at Sacred & Secular, so I thought we might do something a little different today. Instead of wrestling with another difficult passage or challenging question, let’s relax a little and enjoy some of the more humorous moments in Scripture.
And believe me, there are some good ones.
