ResponsiveReiding

No, this isn’t about being a stand-up comedian in the pulpit – it is a short essay on how ridicule cannot only be proper in preaching at times – but downright necessary.
As well as the cautions that ought to go with it.

By the way – this pic of Dr. Shedd is thanks to the efforts of “AHuman”.

Building off of the Spurgeon mongraph I linked to on the PyroManiac site below – here are some provocative words from my absolute favorite of the systematic theologians – W. G. T. Shedd.
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Regarding humor�sarcastic humor in particular�Spurgeon said,

Check out this quote from Spurgeon on Phil Johnson’s blog PyroManiac

“Science rules out the most cartoonish versions of God by debunking specific claims about ancient civilizations in North America or the creation ex nihilo of human life.” Daniel Gilbert.

Really? Science rules out the creation ex nihilo of human life? What would Hugh Ross think of that?
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You cannot possibly read this book and find out more about Jesus. You can only know more about what Anne Rice thinks Jesus said thought and did when He was 7 years old. Dreamers and self-styled mystics will have a hay-day with it. Don�t you be one of them.
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Scott Ferguson, in his excellent comment on the original “Older than Dirt” raised a question that was resurrected by a friend of mine, Brad Hansen. I was hoping to find time to go back and address what Scott said when I HAD time. Then Brad sent me some pages from Hugh Ross’s books, “Creation in Time” and it forced my hand. In that book, Ross addresses the “False Age Theory” first penned by Philip Gosse, a British biologist and preacher. Ross raises some objections to the view that might be worth walking through.

Brad and I have bounced the creation theories around for a couple of years now – and he always adds interesting things to consider. Makes for good discussion.
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And you thought Monty Python was silly!
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What if I told you that the answer to sin is that we just don’t eat enough? Would that pique your interest? It ought to. Because that in fact IS the answer. Weight Watchers knows it. God knows it. The Bible teaches it. And our emaciated little souls are craving it. We just need to start believing it. And eating ourselves into Godliness.
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Many of our attempts at crucifying the flesh, are in fact nothing more than suicide. Trying to kill ourselves. But crucifying the flesh isn’t suicide. 1st, because no one can nail themselves to a cross, it isn’t a suicidal kind of death. The key to crucifying the flesh is in refusing to rely upon it for anything. Even for obedience. Because the flesh is all about self – self has to be out of the picture. If you want to crucify the flesh, quit trying to use it to make spiritual progress – quit gritting your teeth to try and produce righteousness. Look to Him. He is MADE unto us righteousness. It comes from Christ via the Spirit, by faith; not by blood, sweat and tears.
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