We are putting a light hearted or curious scripture verse on a noticeboard in our kitchen area of church, to encourage conversation…
We’ve begun with:
The elephants were roused for combat with the blood of grapes and mulberries. 1 Macc 6.3It worked too 
Bishop Nigel led worship last Sunday evening. He tried to persuade Celia, his wife, that this is the text she is to preach on when she preaches here soon!
So: What’s your verse?
Please join the game, and let us know your verse by adding a comment here.
I always thought this was a good one for parish week end charades, but once they’d guessed the key words the current vicar got it in one. Modern translations are slightly less bizarre but not nearly so much fun.
Ps 60:8 “Moab is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, be thou glad of me.”
A few more we’ve collected. Suggested texts for sermons?
There were giants in the earth in those days Genesis 6.4
At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. Exodus 4.24
Left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers Isaiah 1.8
The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully,
but they cannot compare with the pinions and feathers of the stork. Job 39.13
“They are as quiet as a scarecrow in a field of cucumbers…”
(Jeremiah 10:5)
Our good friend Fr Michael Burgess contributes the following, from the Authorized Version of the Bible:
Isaiah 37.36
When they arose early in the morning, behold they were all dead corpses
1 Kings 13.27
He spake and said Saddle me the ass – and they saddled him (Who is him?)