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Seriously Funny 2

More Musings on Life, Love and God [Paperback]

by Adrian Plass, Jeff Lucas

  • In need of a few more laughs in your life?

  • These amusing musings explore faith, live, and everything in-between

  • You'll find quips and truths that tickle as much as they do transform

  • Authors

    Adrian Plass +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Authentic

  • Published

    October 2012

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'Seriously Funny 2' brings you yet more musings from the Church's best loved comedy duo and an invitation to help yourself to another generous serving of wit and wisdom from two of the most entertaining and enlightening authors and speakers in print and on the stage today. Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas drop their guard and let you listen in on another series of profound and frivolous conversations between the writer of The Secret Diary of Adrian Plass, Salvation and Bacon Sandwiches, and War of the Worlds, and the compiler of Lucas on Life and Premier/UCB broadcaster.

Reasons to buy, enjoy and give 'Seriously Funny 2' by Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas:

• To get the encouraging hug you need in the sometimes baffling world of doing church
• For good read, a broad smile and bit of good news from two wise and witty men
• To escape the serious and discover the profound side of the Christian life
• For a humorous and compassionate take on the things that get under your skin
• As the perfect companion to Adrian and Jeff’s live stage tour and other writings
• The gift that shows Christians have a sense of humour and can laugh at themselves
• The book that shows Christians take God seriously – but not themselves!

‘Seriously Funny 2’ follows the thoughts and musings of two, anything-but-grumpy men, as they look for new insights on life, faith and God through their own experiences. Never rude or destructive, their gentle humour is both revelatory and restorative as they laugh at their own failings, wince at their pretensions and encourage each other – and us toward a closer relationship with God who loves us despite everything.

You can’t read this and fail to be lifted to something higher and see your fellow human beings with a new more godly view, finding him in everyone – even yourself!

From The Book's Back Cover

Following the success if their first joint venture, ‘Seriously Funny 2’ is characterised by humour, pathos and above all honesty. Messrs Plass and Lucas want the truth to shine – how ever uncomfortable that may be, how ever daft they may look in the process. So from musing on why no one writes praise songs about tea or butter, through the horrors of accommodation imposed on speakers., to just why we have to ‘live in the mystery’ when we would all rather live in the solution…

There is a serious side – from the question of guidance, the inevitability of change and ageing, to why Jesus wept. All mulled over with their customary wit and humanity – this is a book to treasure.

Quotes From The Cover:

- “I will never lose my sympathy for and identification with anyone who doesn't think they fit.”
- “A little boy gathered some cushions and placed them gently under the parts of the cross where he thought most of the pain must have been…”
- “If I had a guardian angel, he is probably in therapy now.”
- “Tea is part of the toolkit of blessing.”

Adrian and Jeff’s first Seriously Funny book was backed up with their live tour of the same name. Celebrating the launch of the second book, the two friends are on the road again presenting evenings of live chat, discussion, conversation and banter, all around the UK. With their combined wit and wisdom, the second tour promises to be not just an entertaining way to pass a couple of hours, but genuinely thought provoking too. Musical input to the tour comes from Nicki Rogers, a talented musician and singer whose work is also known for that duality of seriousness and fun. Her albums, ‘Colour Scheme’, ‘Feeder Lane’ and ‘Once in a While’ - exploring the complexities of the life of faith, have been well received on both sides of the Atlantic, adding to the artist’s compatibility with her tour partners.

The complexities of life, especially in relation to faith, are at the heart of Adrian and Jeff’s source material for the 'Seriously Funny 2' book and tour. This is what brings the two men together and puts them, if not exactly on the same wavelength, then at least trying to tune in to the same broadcast. Both men acknowledge that faith works really well in isolation from life. And both know that, in theory, it should work brilliantly when actually applied to life. Yet somehow it never seems to work out like that for many – even most, if not all Christians, if they were honest about it. Honesty; that’s another feature of the writings and public musings of the two men. Their honesty, like their humour is refreshing and liberating, but also disturbing and unsettling. Lucas and Plass, individually and together, tend to say the things that all of us feel, or have felt at sometime.

What Adrian and Jeff do best is to reassure us that we are normal; that all Christians are, underneath and behind the scenes, just like us. They tell us that even the greatest and good of our faith have those internal conflicts. That they too wrestle with the inconsistencies between faith and life. That they also struggle with who they are and what they seem to be. The funny side of the title comes from those incidents where we Christians refuse to admit to this inner battle. Where, in presenting a paper thin false façade to each other, we are suddenly and unexpectedly exposed as pretentious frauds. The serious side – the side that makes us think and seriously reassess ourselves, is when the opposite happens. When the one we never expected to have any great revelation of faith within them suddenly proves us wrong. Then we are put in our place and we realise we’re not doing quite as well on the inside as we like to show on the outside.

But there’s more to the writing of Jeff and Adrian than merely pointing at their fellow Christians as if to say, ‘Aha, not as good as you think you were, are you?’ There’s an underpinning love of people; especially people who strive despite knowing their aiming impossibly high. Their humour never treads on the downtrodden, or tears at the torn. In a way most unlike the coarser ‘comedy’ of secular entertainers, they somehow get alongside the subjects of their humour. They understand what it’s like to be one of these failed individuals because that’s exactly what they are themselves. Their humour is encouraging. It’s uplifting, compassionate and restorative. If there is a ‘Christian Humour’ brand label, then the combined minds of Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas, their laughs and tears, winces and smiles, are probably its most seriously funny definition. – Les Ellison

Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas exchange more thoughts on a variety of Christian topics in this new collection of personal correspondence. The long-awaited sequel to Seriously Funny lets us in on further correspondence between these two popular authors.

Specification

  • Authors

    Adrian Plass +1

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Authentic

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Weight

    159g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    130 x 198 x 15 mm

  • ISBN

    9781850789673

  • ISBN-10

    1850789673

  • Eden Code

    4044478

More Information

  • ISBN: 9781850789673

  • Publisher: Authentic

  • Release Date: October 2012

  • Weight: 159g

  • Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 15 mm

  • Eden Code: 4044478


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