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Article: Comedy of salvation: believing what God wants us to do can make us pregnant with laughter.
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- Presbyterian Record
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- June 1, 1996
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Third Sunday After Pentecost -- June 16
Genesis 18:1-15 (21:1-7); Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19; Romans 5:1-8; Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)
People might laugh in church today. The Bible starts out with a lesson in hospitality suitable for Sesame Street (Genesis 18:1-8) and ends up musing about geriatric sex (verse 12ff).
Abraham and Sarah were old. Too old for children and too old for that too, it seems. A couple in their 90s had only one possible future -- until the visitors arrived.
Visitors were a rare occurrence then, just as they are now in some of our churches. So Abraham and Sarah put on the ancient equivalent of the Annual Spring Luncheon ...