Joyfully Serious Reverence of Scripture

"We live in such a media, entertainment-saturated age that, I would say, the typical worship service in America today makes light of Jesus. I've been listening to six lectures on the internet recently on serious biblical exposition from the Old Testament, and there is constant humor being interjected that is of a trivializing kind. I would say that this is typical.
It is very unusual to go to a church and find a joyfully serious sermon where there isn't some effort to lighten the moment with a silly little comment about this or that. It's just typical for people to use humor in a trivializing way so that it degenerates from what Spurgeon called the robust belly laugh of something that is truly funny to the levity of trivializing holy things. " - Pastor John Piper (from Ask Pastor John "How should we respond to innapropriate humor?")