Bible Humor, 4

 

~ Bible Baseball ~

 

Question ~ Where in the Bible is baseball mentioned?

 

This Series ~ I hope these posts lighten your day as we take a light-hearted look at some Scripture verses and related spiritual topics. Some of these views of concepts may be well known to you, but hopefully others will be new.

 

Answer ~ At the very start of the Bible we read about the “big inning.”

 

Scripture ~ “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Bible Humor, 3

 

~ Daniel As A Feast ~

 

Question ~ What did the lions say when Daniel entered the lions’ den?

 

This Series ~ I hope these posts lighten your day as we take a light-hearted look at some Scripture verses and related spiritual topics. Some of these views of concepts may be well known to you, but hopefully others will be new.

 

Answer ~ Let us “prey” for our meal.

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Bible Humor, 2

 

~ Pastors Have Various Titles ~

 

Question ~ What do they call pastors in Germany?

 

Is it Pastor, Reverend, Apostle, Padre, or ____?

 

This Series ~ I hope these posts lighten your day as we take a light-hearted look at some Scripture verses and related spiritual topics. Some of these views of concepts may be well known to you, but hopefully others will be new.

 

Answer ~ German Shepherds

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Bible Humor,

 

~ Who Was The Shortest Person In the Bible? ~

 

This Series ~ I hope these posts lighten your day as we take a light-hearted look at some Scripture verses. Some of these views of passages may be well known to you, but hopefully others will be new.

 

Note ~ Our inaugural post in this series is a rerun of one of our all-time reader’s favorite past posts on Abundant Life Now (February 2, 2010).

 

Question For Today ~ Most people can quickly tell you that Methuselah was the oldest person in the Bible (Genesis 5:27), but do you know who was the shortest person in the Bible?

Who do you think was the shortest person mentioned in the Bible?
(a) Goliath
(b) Bildad
(c) Nehemiah
(d) Zacchaeus
(e) James
(f) Peter
(g) Paul
(h) Mary

A common answer is Zacchaeus based on Luke 19:2, which tells us that he was a short man. Recall that he was concerned that he would not be able to see Jesus when He passed by. So Zacchaeus remedied his problem by climbing into a sycamore tree.

Some might suggest James, the cousin of our Lord and the author of the Epistle of James, might be shorter than Zacchaeus since he is referred to in Scripture as “James the less” (Mark 15:40) which in the original language literally meant “little” (compared to James the son of Zebedee).

Others will suggest that a shorter man than Zacchaeus or James was Nehemiah since names in Scripture often had significance and his name, knee-high-miah, obviously indicates he was very short.

But considering the names of Biblical characters, some people might point out that Nehemiah was obviously a giant compared to Bildad who was a Shuhite (shoe-height) and therefore obviously shorter than a knee-high individual (Job 2:11).

Still others, who are not as much into focusing on the meaning of names as considering the whole of Scripture, have a different view. They simply state that obviously Peter was the smallest of all since he was so tiny he was able to sleep on his watch (Matthew 26:40).

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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Wedding Cake Inscription

~ Good Intentions, Bad Results ~   

The origin of the following is unknown.

A couple was arranging for their wedding, and asked the bakery to inscribe the wedding cake with “1 John 4:18” which reads “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.”

The bakery evidently lost, smudged or otherwise misread the noted reference, and beautifully inscribed on the cake “John 4:18” which reads “for you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband.” 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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Identity in Christ, 1

~ Q. Who Am I?  The Answers Might Surprise You! ~

This is the start of a weekly post (every Monday) regarding the Christian’s true identity.  Today’s post is from an unknown source!

Years ago, when our daughters were very young, we’d drop them off at our church’s children's chapel on Sundays before the eleven o’clock service.

One Sunday, just as I was about to open the door to the small chapel, the minister came rushing up in full vestments.  He said he had an emergency and asked if I’d speak to the children at their story time.  He said the subject was the Twenty-third Psalm.

But just as I was about to get up from the back row and talk about the good shepherd, the minister burst into the room and signaled to me that he would be able to do the story time after all.

He told the children about sheep, that they weren’t smart and needed lots of guidance, and that a shepherd’s job was to stay close to the sheep, protect them from wild animals and keep them from wandering off and doing dumb things that would get them hurt or killed.

He pointed to the little children in the room and said that they were the sheep and needed lots of guidance.

Then the minister put his hands out to the side, palms up in a dramatic gesture, and with raised eyebrows said to the children, “If you are the sheep then who is the shepherd?” He was pretty obviously indicating himself.

A silence of a few seconds followed.  Then a young visitor said, “Jesus, Jesus is the shepherd.”

The young minister, obviously caught by surprise, said to the boy, “Well, then, who am I?”

The little boy frowned thoughtfully and then said with a shrug, “I guess you must be a sheep dog.”

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW

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