Crazy Stories, Sane God

Crazy Stories, Sane God
Author: John Alan Turner
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433681285

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From a woman tricking her father-in-law into having a child together, to a talking donkey and demons being cast into pigs, theologian John Alan Turner explains what these odd stories are doing in the Bible and why they matter.

The Insanity of God

The Insanity of God
Author: Nik Ripken
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1433673088

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An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.

Unarmed Empire

Unarmed Empire
Author: Sean Palmer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2017-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149829071X

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Shunned. Condemned. Controlled. Describing church, believers and nonbelievers deploy stinging terms to define an imperial, culturally privileged, and powerful American force. Church has become synonymous with shame, exclusion, and hostility. This is not the church of Jesus. American Christians are victims of a deliberate and shortsighted scheme designed to identify and defeat religious, cultural, and sexual Others. From the language of "makers and takers," to "if you're not for us, you're against us," to the continual suggestion that we are soldiers in a constant series of wars--the war on women, the war on the family, the war on Christians, the war on Christmas, the war on terror, and much more--Christians are near the heart of enmity. The New Testament, however, seeks to create an alternative community--a community devoid of fear, wherein God's love and acceptance are mediated to all people through the grace of Jesus. In Unarmed Empire, Sean Palmer reclaims the New Testament's vision of the church as an alternative community of welcome, harmony, and peace. Unarmed Empire is for everyone who's been misled about church. It's for everyone who feels blacklisted by believers, everyone who has been hurt. It's for everyone longing for a purer experience of church.

Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem

Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem
Author: Luke T. Harrington
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0785234454

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This humorous book is full of new insights into ways we’ve been missing the point of so many beloved Bible stories. Approximately 80 percent of Americans admit they haven’t read the Bible. If they did, they’d be pleasantly surprised by its impressive quantity of sex and poop jokes. David danced naked. Noah was basically a moonshining hillbilly. Ezekiel baked poop bread. Herod was eaten by worms. Jesus cursed a fig tree, just to prove he could. Mark went streaking. Hosea married a prostitute. Lot was date-raped by his own daughters. It turns out, there’s a lot of weird stuff in the Bible. Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a funny look at some of the stranger tales in the Bible. From Elisha, who loosed homicidal bears on some kids because they called him bald (it’s a long story), to the story of Ehud, who gets away with assassinating a tyrannical king because his servants think said king is taking a dump (also a long story), this book examines and casts new light on some of the Bible’s stranger moments. Organized by topic (poop, genitalia, weird violence, prostitution, gratuitous nudity, seemingly pointless miracles, and other fun stuff), Murder-Bears, Moonshine, and Mayhem is a thoroughly researched (really!), reverent, and insightful look at the amazing book at the center of our faith.

God's Funny Ways

God's Funny Ways
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1997-07-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781840030433

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God's Crazy Sunday

God's Crazy Sunday
Author: Rod Cleasby
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2016-11-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540867544

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God's Crazy Sunday: Science often gets bogged down in detail. Humour is often light on reason. Here's a little bit of both in the gentle style of a fable or a Just So story. This book is a biography of the first few billion years, a shortened version of the opening epoch. Diverse subjects in science are linked with lighthearted language to illuminate and make a path from the indescribable, to the incredible. May your life be illuminated and enriched by this odd mixture of humour and science. By the way, and for your enjoyment, there are hidden references throughout this book. Enjoy looking for them and let me know if you find any of the more obscure ones. There is also a disguised overall format or frame of reference, while the theme, of course, is patently obvious.

The Story of God

The Story of God
Author: Chris Matheson
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1634310268

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"Part Kurt Vonnegut, part Douglas Adams, but let's be honest, Matheson had me at ‘Based on the Bible.'" —Dana Gould, comedian and writer The Bible offers some clues to God's personality—he's alternately been called vindictive and just, bloodthirsty and caring, all-powerful and impotent, capricious and foresighted, and loving and hateful. But no one has ever fully explored why God might be such a figure of contrasts. Nor has anyone ever satisfactorily explained what guides his relationship not just with angels, the devil, and his son, but also with all of creation. Might he be completely misunderstood, a mystery even to himself? Might his behavior and actions toward humankind tell us much more about him than it does about us? Enter the mind of the creator of the universe, travel with him through the heavenly highs and hellish lows of his story, from Genesis to Revelation, to better understand his burdensome journey: being God isn't easy. After hearing his story—at times troubling and tragic but always hilarious in its absurdity and divine in its comedy—you'll never look at a miracle or catastrophe—or at our place in the universe, or God's—the same way again.

Keeping Sane in a Crazy World

Keeping Sane in a Crazy World
Author: Charles Jenkins, Sr.
Publisher: Xulon Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2002-08
Genre:
ISBN: 1591600731

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God Made Me Do It

God Made Me Do It
Author: Marc Hartzman
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 140223614X

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Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings? According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to present them for your pure reading enjoyment. Including: The man that God told to perform surgery on himself God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station The woman God instructed to direct traffic—topless And, sadly, many more

The Book of Pslams

The Book of Pslams
Author: God
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1982176024

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In the title, the word "psalms" is crossed out and replaced with the word "pslams."