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More Holy Humor: Inspirational Wit and Cartoons
by (Editor: Cal Samra) (Editor: Rose Samra)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc (1997-05)
ISBN: 0785271562
EAN: 9780785271567
Dewy Decimal #: 242.0207
Paperback: 195 pages
SKU: WB206156
Condition: Very Good
Comments: 0785271562 This book evidences gentle use; it is free of markings inside. The cover shows only minor shelf wear. Your book will be carefully protected for transit in sturdy, weather-resistant packaging. We are prompt, efficient, communicative.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Effectively disproving any notion that Christians are relentlessly dour, melancholy, humorless, and joyless, these books from Cal and Rose Samra offer a rib-tickling treasury of Christian joy and humor. They're as ideally suited to individuals and families looking for a laugh as they are to pastors, speakers, and all those who seek to spice up their presentations - and their lives -
with a few power-packed moments of Holy Humor.
For more than a decade, the interdenominational Fellowship of Merry Christians has been publishing The Joyful Noiseletter, an award-winning newsletter filled with church life humor by some of the world's top comedians, humorists, clowns, and cartoonists. Now, the most snicker-spurring and laughter-inciting of these comical contributions are available in four uproarious trade paperback collections and four mini-giftbooks!
Featuring cartoons by such gifted cartoonists as Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, and Johnny Hart, creator of B.C., these collections by editors Cal and Rose Samra are a virtual treasury of good, clean, inspirational humor. Within the pages of each book, readers will find enough knee-slapping jokes, uplifting anecdotes, zingy one-liners, joyful Scripture references, inspiring stories, top ten lists, clean limericks, church cartoons, real-life "uh-ohs," bulletin bloopers, and "jestimonials" from pastors, health professionals, chaplains, and patients to make them laugh from start to finish!
Conveniently arranged by topic or month for easy use, each book is ideal for pastors, teachers, public speakers, and all who seek to fill their lives with God-inspired joy and holy laughter, to help them face the challenges of life.
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Customer Reviews
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Great book if you are into Christian church humor, otherwise most likely boring
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-12-27
To many people, church activities should be a solemn time, where joy and laughter are strictly forbidden. This is not the way it should be, the ability to be refreshed by laughter is a trait that is distinctly human. As a fundamental human activity, it should be made an integral part of church services. This is the opinion of a group called the "Fellowship of Merry Christians" (FMC). It is dedicated to the development of humor with a Christian religious theme, and this book is a collection of many of their jokes.
As befits their nature, the jokes are of course free of any sexual or cursing taint (with the exception of the acceptable "hell and damnation"). Many are based on the misperceptions and misunderstandings of children as they listen to the adult versions of church services. Others are based on erroneous or untimely statements by preachers, as they somehow manage to utter the wrong thing at the wrong time.
This book is a humor book that you will either like a lot or find boring, all dependent on your personal sense of humor. Clearly, that is not a criticism, just a statement of fact.
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Good pulpit jokes
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-04-05
The jokes and anecdotes are appropriate for sermon uses or just to get fellow Christians to smile and laugh. I do find this and other works of the same series a bit self-congratulatory. I would rather have more humor and fewer "You've done a great job" testimonials. However, I am aware that the material I'm criticizing helps counteract the sad notion that people aren't allowed to laugh in church.
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