Wise Guys
I appreciate preachers with a sense of humor. Many Christians (including myself at times) tend to take themselves too seriously and need to lighten up more. Proverbs 17:22 says, “A merry heart does good, like medicine…” I also enjoy listening to comedians as long as their material is clean and don’t contain profanity. To this day, I still laugh while watching old Three Stooges films. Who could forget all the crazy sounds made by Curly Howard, plus his various catchphrases? One of which sometimes used by the other Stooges was: “Oh, a wise guy!” I was once married to a woman whose maiden name was Kerley. Although that short-lived marriage ended acrimoniously, one fond memory of my late ex-wife was her calling me a “wise guy” when I said or did something funny. To which I replied, “What do you expect? I married a Kerley!” God wants all of us to be “wise guys”, or in other words, have wisdom. Proverbs 4:7 (KJV) says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:...