2013-11-30T06:00:03-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/laughter/ http://faithgateway.com/laugh-its-good-for-you/ 2013-11-30T06:00:03-05:00 He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, and your lips with rejoicing. — Job 8:21 It was a great surprise to Scrooge… to hear a hearty laugh. It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew’s and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit […] http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/2320 2010-08-12T04:47:45-05:00 I blame Bob Monkhouse. I trace my huge enjoyment of comedy, and attempts to make others laugh, largely back to his Mad Mad Movies TV programme. All he really did was show clips of old slapstick – Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, The Keystone Cops and the rest. And I was hooked at the age of about seven or eight. But I never thought I’d be organising and running a comedy club – let alone launching our town’s first ever Comedy Festival. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20126:2&version=NIV 2009-07-22T16:29:19-05:00 Christianity has acquired a certain reputation for stuffy humorlessness over the years. But in this passage, joyful and exuberant laughter is an appropriate response for God's people, who have been saved by His might.