I remember tuning into Monty Python on an tiny black and white screen accidentally as a youth. I was amazed and later saw all the movies, bought albums, (I remember "The Contractual Obligation Album") and can quote, sing, act out skits, and make ubiquitous references only the the most engrained know if I wanted to.

Them, Letterman, even my fascination with the Marx brothers grew a mocking spirit within me and I know I will be regretting it on Judgement Day. Their influence has made parts of me non-believing, cynical, and pugnaciously superior in attitude.

I was reading Spurgeon last night and he spoke of the laughter of fools with their caps and bells and I am all to familiar with that vanity. Bunyan was playing some game called 'cat' and heard a voice from heaven say, "wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven or have thy sins and go to hell?" He was stunned but kept playing and went according to his autobiography, a little mad. I wish I were under so great a hand as Bunyan for such triffling things if I knew the results would be such purity.

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Bryan Wiley
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Reformed Baptist Church
Louisville, Kentucky