Taking Faith Seriouslyনমুনা

Truth in Unexpected Places

If you love Christian comedy, chances are that you’ve seen at least one of Thor Ramsey’s side-splitting performances. In addition to being an in-demand stand-up comedian for over 30 years, Thor also puts his creativity to work by writing screenplays, novels, and non-fiction books. Join us for an honest conversation with Thor about the spiritual habits that strengthen his faith.

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By recognizing that in him we live and move and have our being, which simply means that we can be conscious of the Lord at all times during any activity.

Yet God has designated certain activities for His children to do together, like gather and worship Him. That’s a designated spiritual activity designed to be distinct. There’s a distinction in God’s creation. Not everything is one in Christianity. God is one, and then there’s everything else that is not God.

It’s a distinction He put in place because He is holy — other than everything else.

Now, with that being said, we can find God’s truth in unexpected places when we understand how He has revealed Himself. When we understand redemption, we can be deeply moved by the redemptive theme in the most secular of movies, even if the writer and director didn’t intend for the redemptive theme to shine through the way it did (certainly not in the way of Christian redemption anyway).

I’ve had that experience before. That’s simply because the story of redemption in Christ overshadows all other redemption stories. But you don’t find a lot of redemption stories in Hollywood. You find mostly revenge stories.

—Thor Ramsey, stand-up comedian, as told to Rapt Interviews

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