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Was Jesus funny?

Mark Driscoll Audio

Mark Driscoll

History, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Jesus, God, Mark, Gospel, Pastor, Society & Culture, Driscoll

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Is the Bible funny? Did Jesus ever crack a joke? In this throwback from 2009, you'll be taken on a survey of humor throughout the Bible in a sermon unlike anything you've ever heard.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, howdy is Ashley Chase here, the executive director of Real Faith Ministries, which I get to run with my parents' past or mark and grace.

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0:32.0

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0:46.0

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0:49.0

Good to see you all. We are doing a series of religion saves and non-other misconceptions. Tonight we're doing humor. It's going to be fun.

0:57.0

And I'll tell you how we ended up with this series. Normally we go right through books to the Bible, but as I was teaching through First Corinthians a while back, I realized that that church had written a lot of questions to their pastor Paul.

1:09.0

And then his letter was a series of answers to their questions. So I thought, well, wouldn't it be fun to do that in our own days?

1:16.0

We posted it on the website. We got 893 questions. Most of them were terrible. Some were pretty good.

1:23.0

We got 5.5,000 comments. About half of them were, that's not nice. Don't say that.

1:30.0

And then we have 343,000 votes. And we've taken the top 9 questions and we're doing them as this religion saves series. Up until Easter. Last week we dealt with the number 9 question.

1:42.0

Birth control where I showed you the Richard Simmons photo if you don't remember. That was the highlight. This week we're doing question number 8, which is humor.

1:51.0

Next week we'll do question number 7, which is predestination. Why does God choose some people for heaven and not others? Duck, duck, damn.

1:58.0

Kind of game that Calvin has loved to play. Additionally, the following week we'll do question number 6, which was sort of a grab big question for me.

2:09.0

What part of Christianity do I still find most difficult to believe? After that question number 5, which is sexual sin? How do you overcome sexual sin?

2:17.0

Question number 4, faith and works. Do we save ourselves? Does God save us? Do we work together with God? How does that work?

2:24.0

After that question number 3, we'll deal with dating and courting and doerting all of those together. And then number 2, the emerging church.

2:32.0

And question number 1 will be worship and the regular principle. As always, we're audio and video capturing everything. It's all online for free, but you get what you pay for.

2:43.0

You can find it at, that was supposed to be funny. You guys can be rough crowd, Xero, that's going to go.

2:48.0

Marslechurch.org, iTunes, YouTube, Hasidol, you can go to myspace, Facebook, blast away comments if you want a place to comment and discuss the sermon.

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