Check out this amazing skit that my wife sent to me.
It made me cry. Of course, if you know me, that’s a pretty easy trick. (Blasted emotions.) The video’s long-ish at 5+ minutes, but very moving.
I want to say more, but I’ll spoil it for you.
So just watch.
Month: September 2007
How Great Thou Art
I think I’ve failed to mention that Jared of the Thinklings has a solo blog again, The Gospel Oriented Church. Add it to your regular reading routine, it’s worth it.
Someday when I actually update my long outdated blogroll, it’ll get a link here.
Tuesday he posted a powerful celebration of the gospel centered around one of my favorite old hymns, How Great Thou Art. I’m tempted to quote the whole thing, but I won’t. Instead I’ll tease you with this:
When you even barely grasp the depths of your depravity in even a glimpse of the light of God’s holiness, and then see that terrible contrast intersecting at the cross, where God’s only Son bled the ground red with grace, how can you not be moved? How can I not be moved?
…
The scandalous beauty of the crucified king, the awful glory of the sacrificed Lord: this is the watershed moment of all of history, and it ought to be the watershed moment of your history.
I needed that reminder to stand in awe of God’s audacious and glorious plan of reconciliation. Go read the entire thing, it’s a moving reminder.
And when I think that God, His Son not sparing,
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in.
Ezekiel – Chapters 38-39
Ezekiel 38 – Is this prophesy concerning a time after Israel would be gathered again after God scatters them in judgement? He just told Ezekiel at length how Israel (and the surrounding nations) would be judged and punished, and then how Israel would be restored. Now this additional prophesy of how Israel would be scattered again. I’m confused.
Ezekiel 39:1-6 – Ezekiel 38 made it sound like Gog was an instrument of wrath against Israel, here God says he will strike down Gog. I guess I misunderstood, God was allowing (bringing?) Gog against them to strike Gog down and show His name to Israel, if I got that right.
Ezekiel 39:9 – Seven years worth of wood from burning the fallen enemy’s weapons. That’s a large army that was felled.
Ezekiel 39:17-20 – Israel always prepared sacrificial feasts for God, now God was preparing one for them.
Ezekiel 39:23-24 – It was important to God that the nations see Him sealing with israel’s sin. It wasn’t just their (the nations’) sin that he judged, he judged Israel too. God does not show favoritism, sin is sin.
Weird Google Search Term #1
Borrowing (OK, stealing) an idea from GKB, I give you my first Weird Google search term.
The search terms that bring folks to salguod.net in my Google Analytics report are usually pretty mundane. The top 5 always contains ‘Miss Belvedere’, leading to this post (#4 on Google) and ‘Leno’s Toronado’, leading to this one (#1 on Google, ironically, ahead of Jay Leno’s own article on Popular Mechanics) from December of ’04.
Last week, I had a chuckle as someone (2 someones, actually) found their way her by searching for ‘450 gsm towel means’ leading to my April 2005 archive page (way down at #20 on Google).
In April I had posted on going wireless with our new cell phones with 450 minutes a month and GSM phone technology, my quiet time notes from The Upper Room where Jesus wraps a towel around his waist and the word ‘means’ was in several posts, as well as that little blurb about me in the upper left.
If that weren’t odd enough, this week four more people found me by that same search phase. Irony of ironies, this post will bring even more folks looking for what ‘450 GSM towel means’.
Sorry to disappoint you folks, I have no idea.
Best High School Prank
This is slightly old news, but since it happened in my kid’s school district – and is such an awesome, fairly harmless, prank – I needed to share.
On August 24th, the Hilliard school district’s 2 High Schools, Darby and Davidson, met for the first time on the football field. It was to be a big game and was held at the local pro-soccer team’s stadium.
Inspired by a similar prank pulled by Yale students over rival Harvard, Davidson senior Kyle Garchar set up the prank in this video, achieving better success than the college students at Yale did in 2004. He spent 20 hours planning it and the results are hilarious.
He paid for it, though, according to the Columbus Dispatch, Davidson’s principal gave him a 3 day in school suspension and barred him from school activities for a semester. That’s pretty harsh, in my view, for a prank that was pretty harmless. I suppose the language was a bit harsh (“We Stink” would have been kinder, but a little harder to pull off), but other than emarassment and bruised feelings, what harm was done? The principal said they expected good sportsmanship. Fair enough, and punishment is appropriate, but that’s over the top for what amounts to a good practical joke in my view.
Watch and enjoy. Oh, and Darby had the last laugh, beating Davidson 21-10, breaking Davidson’s 15 game winning streak.
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