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Marie hat das beeindruckende Talent, sich ständig in die falschen Männer zu verlieben. Kurz nachdem auch noch ihre Hochzeit platzt...

Jesus ist zurück und stellt alle Erwartungen erneut völlig auf den Kopf. Seine Mission diesmal: neue Ich-bin-Worte. Statt an den Dorfbrunnen, in den Tempel und in die Wüste führt ihn sein Weg jetzt in die Sauna, in den Escape-Room, auf die Hundewiese und sogar ins Tattoostudio. Wieder mit dabei: seine schräge WG um Jonas, Trixi und Martin. Der Neuzugang: Hund James...

The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus is an award winning religious satire; a fast-paced comedic re-imagining of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus with sensibilities similar to The Book of Mormon and Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Just in time for the Apocalypse comes a new Biblical scripture from God and thirteen-time Emmy Award–winning comedy writer David Javerbaum. 3,000 years ago, King David wrote The Book of Psalms—hymns in praise of God that became famous worldwide. Now, with humanity on the verge of a...

The timeline correction Marty Mann and Nellie Dixon accomplished in their first episode was successful.... Or was it? When the two humans and their Krichard friends, Chrissie and Tina, return to year 2020 Earth to verify the change, they find an advanced, peaceful planet. The four friends move into Marty’s new timeline home and the next morning head out for a flying car tour of Oodlelakeolis.

Drei Tage nach der Kreuzigung erwacht Jesus in seinem Felsengrab, lebendig - und verwirrt. Ein satanisches Ritual hat ihn unsterblich gemacht, aber wenn er nicht stirbt, sind die Sünden der Menschen nicht vergeben, und das war doch seine einzige Aufgabe auf Erden! Gemeinsam mit seinem Verräter Judas reist Jesus durch die nächsten 2000 Jahre Menschheitsgeschichte, inspiriert Leonardo Da Vinci zum letzten Abendmahl, begegnet Martin Luther und muss mit blutenden Marienstatuen klarkommen.

What if Jesus was cloned… and didn’t want to save the world? In the neon-drenched dystopia of 2144, spirituality is a subscription service, and megachurches sell miracles like fast food. Meet Jesus 3. 0, the latest cloned messiah, who’s more anxious human than divine savior. Teamed with Sadie Vox, a jaded ex-pastor, Gary, a foul-mouthed donkey prophet, and Bishop Synth, a sentient AI toaster, Jesus must navigate a world where faith is a brand and love is a liability.

Helge Timmerberg legt neue Reportagen seiner Reisen vor. Endlich! Schräg, zuweilen nachdenklich und immer höchst unterhaltsam sind diese Stücke, die wieder einmal zeigen, dass Timmerbergs Leben eigentlich ein einziger langer wilder Trip durch innere und äußere Welten ist. Er hat Waffenschieber, Flamencotänzerinnen und Drogenbarone getroffen, ist nach Havanna, Thailand, tel Aviv und Oanama gereist. Um Abenteuerluft zu schnuppern, muss man nicht unbedingt wegfahren. Man kann auch einfach Helge Timmerberg zuhören.

Shoot Me, Jesus is a “novel in short stories”, what writer Jane Lawless called “erotic magic realism with a Southwestern spiciness.” Humor is an essential element of each story. The 11 linked tales move forward and backward in time in the manner of flashbacks and foreshadowing in a novel, though the plots are always character-driven. It is their realizations, insights, and inner changes that move the collection along.

In direct response to the lasting negative effects of the Bush administration, Beat Me Sweetly, Heavy Jesus portrays a United States misrun by a series of Bush clones, each more degraded than the last, anchoring a destructive and self-fellating government which more closely resembles a monarchy. Cast into dismal times are Joe and Sam, men who struggle to survive within the new economy of the reign of President Bush VIII.

The Jesus Nut tells the parallel stories of three unlikely pilgrims - a reviled professor, a delusional homeless veteran, and a priest who loves strip clubs - searching for the greatest religious relic of the 21st century. Thrown together after a raucous showdown with evangelists, they decide to ignore their differences and work as a team in pursuit of their holy purpose. Their journey to New York City leads to a fateful encounter with a former advertising executive, whose mad ramblings suggest he might be the very oracle to help them fulfill their destiny.

Jesus DeJesus is the lead singer of the Nazi Sympathisers, a punk band whose music excites its audiences into a frenzy that results in the complete annihilation of whatever city the band plays in.

Marie tiene un gran talento para enamorase del hombre equivocado. Poco después de que su boda haya sido cancelada, conoce a un carpintero. Es un hombre diferente a todos los que ha conocido antes: sensible, atento, desinteresado. Desafortunadamente, en su primera cita él le confiesa que es Jesús. Al principio, Marie piensa que está completamente loco, pero poco a poco se da cuenta de que su historia es cierta. Se ha enamorado del Mesías, que ha venido a la Tierra poco antes del Juicio Final. Marie deberá hacer frente no sólo al fi n del mundo, previsto para el próximo martes, sino a la historia de amor más descabellada de todas las que ha vivido.

Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he s sure he's figured a way out: rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in his house. But all he finds is the old man dead and the money, if there was any, already gone.

Timothy Cooper's novel, 2020 or My Name Is Jesus Christ and I'm Running for President paints a hilariously envisioned America caught up in presidential politics. In actuality, it tells the prophetic story of the rise of Donald Trump. Here Jesus returns to Earth, only to find himself pitted against his satanic stepbrother, Beelzebub, in a contest for the presidency and for the very soul of America.

When a troubled young comic meets a bold, unpredictable woman, their story spirals into dark comedy, spiritual questions, and the unexpected hope of redemption. This short-form audiobook delivers a cinematic punch — part redemption story, part black comedy, all heart. Chris is a young alcoholic who wants nothing to do with his family’s bizarre mortuary business. He dreams of being a comedian, of making people laugh — but the economy is brutal, his drug habit is getting worse, and his life is unraveling fast. Then there’s Zoie.

Jesus klingelt an der Tür - inkognito, versteht sich. Und Gott denkt über Reformen nach: dieser Cola trinkende Kerl im roten Mantel, das ist einfach zu viel. Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und will in die Herzen. Die ungewöhnlichen Weihnachtsgeschichten von Susanne Niemeyer helfen, uns mit Weihnachtsstimmung zu erfüllen. (Achtung, Suchtgefahr! Empfohlene Dosis: täglich eine.) Bunt, herzerwärmend und fantasievoll - ein ganz besonderer Begleiter durch die Adventszeit.

Restore the wonder of the parables, the joy of the Gospel...and the discomfort of the Sword of Truth stabbed firmly in your gut. Not the Parables of Jesus contains more than 40 different takes on the original parables to snap us out of our over-familiarity and to open our eyes to the truth of the Gospel. Often fun, sometimes poignant, and occasionally painful, these parables reveal our cultural biases, hidden assumptions, and the lies we believe.