When Did Caesar Become a Salad and Jeremiah a Bullfrog?: 100 Clever, Funny, and Insightful Lessons for Life

by Martin Babb

Overview

Just a quick glance at the table of contents will tell you that this isn't your standard inspirational book.

Consider these chapter titles: "It's a Dog-Eat-Dog World and Cats Are Waiting Tables,""I Need a Rocky Mountain High Because I've Reached a Barry Manilow,"and "If the Incredible Edible Roadkill Bill Passes, Will There Really Be a Fork in the Road?"

Martin Babb moves beyond such extraordinary titles to address the ordinary issues we all face on a daily basis — surviving trials, loving others, parenting, developing a servant's heart, and a variety of other down-to-earth topics.

With each life-affirming lesson, he plants whimsical seeds intended to nurture serious reflection. When Did Caesar Become a Salad and Jeremiah a Bullfrog will give you a reason to smile and something to chew on with its unconventional collection of bite-sized essays.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582294278
Publisher:	Howard Books
Publication date:	02/01/2005
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Martin Babb is currently the associate pastor and serves in the education area at Springfield Baptist Church in Tennessee. He also served as the associate pastor and worked with the youth at Cavalry Baptist Church and Pulaski Heights Baptist Church. He has had many articles published in many newspapers and magazines. He lives with his wife Beverly Lynn in Springfield, Tennessee, and they have two children.

Table of Contents

1	If you Go Berserk in the Kitchen, Are you Speaking in Tongs? (Lessons from Everyday Living)
1	It's Hard to Swim in a Sea of Depression, but a Sense of Humor Helps You Tread Water	2
2	An Urgent Need for Yeschatology-the Forgotten Doctrine of First Things	4
3	If the Incredible Edible Road-Kill Bill Passes, Will There Be a Fork in the Road?	6
4	Taking Time for the Refreshing Paws of Life	8
5	I Have No Title Because I Forgot What I Was Writing About	10
6	Living on Easy Street, Memory Lane, and Glory Road	12
7	Burgers, Fast Food, and God: Living on a Wing and a Prayer	14
8	Communication Problem? Sometimes We Just Need to Bite Our Tongues	17
9	If There Is Sunshine in Our Souls, Why Do We Rain on Someone's Parade?	19
10	Not Only the Ides of March, but Also Beware the Waxing Gibbous	21
2	If Love Makes the World Go 'Round, Why Do I Feel So Square? (Lessons on Loving Others)
11	When Was the Last Time You Toad Someone You Loved Them?	24
12	Hereford Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Mooving Story of Bovine Intervention	26
13	The Veiled Reality of Virtual Religion	28
14	Life Is an Information Superhighway, but I Can't Seem to Find the On-Ramp	30
15	Is There a Height Requirement for the Ride of a Lifetime?	32
16	You Don't Have to Be a Sandwich to Be Miracle-Whipped	34
17	Women May Be from Venus, but Men Left a Ring around Saturn	36
18	The Road to Loving People Is More Easily Traveled with Small Steps	38
19	Red and Yellow, Black and White-God's Best Rainbow	41
20	If Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder, Why Do People Try So Hard to Be the Beheld?	43
3	When the Going Gets Tough, We Usually Go to Wal-Mart (Lessons on Living through Trials)
21	Nothing Heals a Wounded Eagle Like the Warmth of a Scar-Spangled Banner	46
22	The Rain May Continue to Fall, but God Still Builds Boats	48
23	Why Worry about Ants When There Could Be Elephants Coming over the Wall?	50
24	The Squirrel May Be in the House, but You Don't Have to Let Him Nest	52
25	How Do You Deal with Creeping Iguanas?	55
26	It's a Dog-Eat-Dog World, and Cats Are Waiting Tables	57
27	I Need a Rocky Mountain High Because I've Reached a Barry Manilow	59
28	You've Never Really Known Fear Until You've Tried to Harpoon a Mad Chihuahua	61
29	Come, Let Us Spray	63
30	Raising People above See Level Is a Task of Titanic Proportions	65
4	Are Some Churches Just Grazing Land for Golden Calves? (Lessons from the Local Church)
31	Ever Get the Feeling That the Whole World Is a Formal Dinner and You Are Ernest T. Bass?	68
32	There Is a Reason That the Bleachers Are the Cheap Seats	70
33	Where There Is No Vision, the Blind Lead the Blind	72
34	Nothing Gets a Man Moving like Being Bitten in the Sanctuary	74
35	I'm Crying in the Chapel Because I've Got Georgia on My Mind	76
36	A Letter from Cuzzin Mervin	78
37	The Most Damaging Frost Is Not Always Outdoors	80
38	Aren't Committee Meetings One of the Seven Deadly Sins?	82
39	The Secret to Church Growth ... Belching Cows	84
40	In the James Bond Church You Really Only Live Once	86
5	Contrary to Its Popularity, Crabbiness Is Not a Fruit of the Spirit (Lessons on Positive Living from Negative People)
41	Give Us Our Daily Bread ... but Could You Throw in a Potluck Dinner	90
42	The Quickest Way to a Man's Heart Is through Your Own Mouth	92
43	Please Enter from Cleveland during Construction	94
44	Suffering from Howlitosis: When the Fruit of the Spirit Turns Sour	97
45	UFOs in the Church: Close Encounters of the Unkind	100
46	Wasting Away and Knee-Deep in Sewage	103
47	Beef Tips and Rest Stops and Loose Lips and Gift Shops-These Are a Few of My Favorite Things	106
48	With Apologies to William Golding: You, Too, Can Be Lord of the Flies	108
49	A Christian Swimming in a Sea of Negativity Should Be like a Fish out of Water	110
50	A Cure for the Uncommonly Cold	112
6	If Home Is on the Range, Then Someone Is on the Hot Seat (Lessons on Family Living)
51	Nothing Tugs at the Heartstrings like Music from a Silent Piano	116
52	If Life Were a Full-Course Dinner, Adolescence Would Fall between Broccoli and the Burp	118
53	Moving Contentedly from the Chore List to the Dean's List to the Grocery List	120
54	The Nightmare of Being an Abbott and Costello Parent in a Freddy Krueger World	122
55	Investing in Children: A Return Not Found on the Dow Jones	124
56	Off the Porch and into the World: A Leap of Faith	126
57	Ode to a Daughter upon Her High-School Graduation	128
58	From the Nest to the Trees Is Farther Than It Looks	131
59	Artificial Intelligence: Knowing More about Computers Than Your Families	133
60	Making Room for Daddy	135
7	Life Is like a Garage Sale, and I Keep Getting Marked Down (Lessons for the Down-and-Out)
61	Don't Try to Reach the Promised Land by Being Almost Persuaded	138
62	Once the Box Is Opened, the Crayons Will Never Be the Same ... and Neither Will the Artist	141
63	The Ship of Life-the Only Ship Afloat Where the Lifeline Is Tied to the Anchor	143
64	The Gospel, Although Colorful in Its Setting, Is Best Understood in Black and White	145
65	If You Want to Go Where the Fish Are, You Must First Get Out of the Bait Shop	148
66	If We Live by Sweet 'n Law and Nutra-Saints, We Could Easily Become Numb and Number	150
67	Can't Stand the Heat? In Eternity the Kitchen Will Be the Least of Your Worries	152
68	Hash Browns and the Gospel: Scattered, Splattered, Smothered, and Covered	155
69	When Hope Springs a Leak Instead of Eternal	158
70	The Road to Enlightenment Often Passes through Mayberry	160
8	If You Think You've Got Problems, Consider the Person Who Had to Clean the Ark (Lessons on Servanthood)
71	A Pilgrim's Progress Is Always Measured by His Bunions	164
72	Let's Turn in Our Hymnbooks to "There's Power in the Towel"	167
73	There's More Than One Way to Trim the Fat	169
74	The Chicken May Have Crossed the Road, but He Didn't Crow about It	172
75	We Are the Salt of the Earth, but Some of Us Need a Lid on Our Shaker	175
76	To Be a Good Samaritan, You Must First Get Rid of Pride and Prejudice	178
77	When God Gets a Hold on You, It's Shake, Rattle, and Rule	180
78	The Tree, Then the Tomb, Then the Towel: A God-Inspired Sequence on Independence Day	182
79	If You're Looking for a Sign from Above, Check Out the Son	185
80	More Than a Water Pot	187
9	It's Not Christ's Shoes That Are Hard to Fill; It's the Holes in His Hands (Lessons from the Example of Christ)
81	You Can Find Anything at Wal-Mart, Including Elvis and Jesus	190
82	Does the Command to Love Include Things That Slurp in the Night?	193
83	When Did Caesar Become a Salad and Jeremiah a Bullfrog?	196
84	There Is Only One Way to God, and It Is Not Milky	199
85	When It Comes to the Bread of Life, Don't Loaf Around	201
86	Don't Believe Everything You Hear ... or Read	203
87	If an Elephant Bags a Hunter, Does He Tie Him to His Trunk?	206
88	A Christian without Joy Is like Pomp without Circumstance	209
89	Experiencing Hapless Trials but Riding Happy Trails	212
90	Death of a False Salesman	215
10	Spending Time with the Holidazed (Lessons from Holidays and Holy Days)
91	God Had a Great Notion-the Birth of the Easter People	218
92	Duty, Honor, and Above All ... a Really Good Sales Pitch	221
93	In Search of Thanksgiving	224
94	Interesting Concept-Being Stoned on Valentine's Day	227
95	The High Cost of Living in the Land of the Free	230
96	Weary from Making Mountains out of Molehills? Try Reversing the Process	233
97	Taking God's Name in Vain Is Not Always Done with Words	236
98	We Three Kings of Orient 'R' Us	239
99	If You Stand at the Manger, You Can See the Cross	242
100	For Unto You a Savior Is Born-Do Not Delete	245