Crazy stories, sane God
Subtitle: lessons from the most unexpected places in the Bible
By: John Alan Turner
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781433681288
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: English Bible stories; Christian life; Biblical teaching
Description: 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
Table of contents: title: Introduction; Genesis 9-Noah Gets Drunk; Genesis 18-19-What Were They Thinking?; Genesis 22-Is It Soup Yet?; Genesis 25, 27-29-Running with a Limp; Genesis 38-A Scandal for Christmas; Exodus 4-The Bridegroom of Blood; Numbers 22-A King, a Prophet, and a Talking Donkey; Joshua 2-Nicknames; Joshua 6-Holy War and the Old Testament; Joshua 9-10-The Sun Stood Still; Judges 3-The Left-Handed Ways of God; Judges 11-Even When It Hurts; Judges 19-No Good Guy in Sight; Book of Ruth-Meat and Potatoes; 1 Samuel 4-6-God in a Box; 2 Samuel 11-How Stuff Happens; 2 Kings 2-Don't Mess with Him; title: Book of Job-What Kind of God?Song of Solomon-Birds, Bees, Blossoms, and Wheat; Ezekiel 1-The All-Seeing Eye; Ezekiel 4-No Crazy like Prophetic Crazy; Daniel 4-The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel 5-You Knew Better; Hosea 1-Hosea Loves a What?; Book of Jonah-Insights from the Inside (of a Fish); Mark 5-Jesus, Legion, and the Pigs; Mark 16 and Acts-Church; Luke 2-That Time God Became a Fetus; Acts 5-Your Money or Your Life; Acts 8-The Former Terrorist in the Pulpit; Epilogue