1 Sermon Illustrations on Humor

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Humor in Christian preaching reflects joy and warmth, blending kindness and truth without causing harm or ridicule. It serves to engage listeners, lighten heavy messages, and reveal deeper spiritual truths through gentle wit (Proverbs 17:22). True humor embodies sympathy and grace, fostering connection rather than division.

Humor

True humor combines kindness, truth, and sympathy without malice or ridicule.

Humor dwells with sanity, Truth, and common sense. Humor is humanity, Sympathy intense.

Humor always laughs with you, Never at you; she Loves the fun that’s sweet and true And of malice free.

Paints the picture of the fad, Folly of the day, As it is, the good and bad, In a kindly way.

There behind her smiling mien, In her twinkling eyes, Purpose true is ever seen, Seriousness lies.

--JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, _Putnam’s Monthly_.

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