You probably know a lot of Bible stories: Joseph and his coat,
David and Goliath, Daniel and the lions, Jesus walking on water.
These get mentioned everywhere from popular literature to your
local church.
But there are other stories in the Bible that preachers and Sunday
school teachers tend to skip over because . . . well . . . because
they seem crazy—the kind of stories that make us change the subject
quickly when children bring them up, because we don’t know why
they’re in the Bible or what they could possibly mean.
You want examples? There's the time a prophet calls a couple of
bears out of the woods to maul a gang of rowdy teenagers. There's
also a story about a woman who dresses provocatively and tricks her
father-in-law into getting her pregnant. And their son ends up in
the genealogy of Jesus! What are we to make of these strange,
sometimes cryptic, sometimes even off-color stories? What are they
doing in the Bible?
In Crazy Stories, Sane God popular author and teacher John
Alan Turner takes us on a wild and unpredictable ride through the
weirdest and least familiar stories in the Bible. Through it all,
Turner shows us how even these odd episodes reveal important things
about the character and nature of God and, consequently, what they
mean for us today.