One of the most jaw-droppingly amazing YouTube videos I have ever seen:



This guy MASTERED that wall. Insane? Yes. Completely foolish? Yes. But all the same, he MASTERED that wall. The intensity and passion this guy had for what he did just blows me away and is so challenging in light of 1 Corinthians 9:25.

Unsurprisingly (and sadly), the guy that did this climb, Dan Osman, died a few years later during a stunt he was doing called "controlled free-falling" when his rope broke.

I found this video on the Joe's Goals blog.

This is my kind of humor. Found on the really funny Letters From Kamp Krusty blog:

Dear Church Solution Magazine,

I do not think you should have a "sexpo."

I saw your website, for your upcoming event: www.churchsolutionsexpo.com. I feel that a sexpo, even in the interest of helping pastors expand what you call the "houses of worship market", is inappropriate, not right, and just generally wrong.

While the Bible is largely silent about sexpos, that does not, in my opinion, make your sexpo acceptable. You say, for example, your sexpo "will have a unique appeal for exhibitors".

I'm sure that's true.

Read the rest here.

This post just made me laugh embarrassingly loud at work:

In the news, O.J. Simpson is in jail for trying to reclaim some items in Las Vegas that an alleged thief stole from him. If O.J. is found guilty of asking a thief to return his belongings, he could go to jail for 30 years.

I assume O.J. is kicking himself for not killing everyone in the room, covering himself in their DNA, and going golfing. You have to stick with what works. What the Hell was he thinking?

From Freshly Squeezed O.J. on the Dilbert Blog.

Quote of the day:

Being a fool for Christ is one thing. Being a fool for no good reason is another.
- Ariel Vanderhorst(in the comments)

Quick quote from Carl Sagan (of all people!):

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Found this test linked on Noel Heikkinen's site. Very interesting. Especially since I've never read any Barth, but about 90% of what I read about him on his Wikipedia article really resonates with me. Note that similar to Noel (and also Brett, where Noel found the test) it's a close call between Luther (unsurprisingly), Barth, and Anselm (Anselm? Who is Anselm?)...gee, I need to read more books. :)



You scored as Karl Barth, The daddy of 20th Century theology. You perceive liberal theology to be a disaster and so you insist that the revelation of Christ, not human experience, should be the starting point for all theology.


Which theologian are you?
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Karl Barth		73%
Anselm		67%
Martin Luther		60%
Charles Finney		60%
John Calvin		53%
Friedrich Schleiermacher		47%
Jonathan Edwards		47%
Jürgen Moltmann		33%
Augustine		27%
Paul Tillich		7%