Now THIS gets me in the Christmas Spirit! (h/t More Than Dodgeball via Susan on Facebook)

The song is a parody of “Mary, did you know” for those of you not on board yet.

Excellent.

1,000 followers on Twitter really means nothing in the real world but it’s nothing to shake a stick at either if you are trying to show to people that you are working hard at this church and social media thing.

Some info:

• No followback programs or lists or fake follower ala Newt Gingrich. If you follow me and I resonate with your recent posts, I follow you back. That simple.
• I passed the person who got me onto twitter (@blakehuggins) only a few weeks ago. Slow but steadily passed the master! (follow him too!)
• I didn’t get as much of a bump from #explo2011 as I expected, even being on their official email lists and sending lots of tweets. Oh well. Guess that means (a) I’m uninteresting or (b) I’m already connected to that demographic, which…yeah, let’s hope for the latter

Can I get off my geek theology soapbox for a moment and take a personal moment?

I just want to brag that I have the best youth group ever.

The pic above is a gift to me from a youth group’s family that I received yesterday just in time for an Advent Calendar.

Yes, they must be reading this blog. Ha!

Just sharing a joy!

I’m late to this party as others have had this up for weeks. But just in case you are not in those circles, here’s an awesome mash-up of “The Grinch” and Star Wars. Check it out:

(h/t about 20+ friends)

Pretty hilarious video. Just disregard the final frame.

(h/t James McGrath)

From Geekstir (and they have tons more Star Wars content here)…and most of my friends on facebook sent this image to me from other sources.

Happy Halloween!

(Image credit: “Death Star Pumpkin” by Geekstir. Shared under fair use, all rights retained by Geekstir)

I don’t promote products on this blog but this is a perfect convergence of :

1. An Advent Calendar
2. Star Wars
3. Legos

A few weeks back I was with some United Methodist colleagues and their friends. I was sitting outside enjoying the evening breeze when a man and woman stopped by and the woman pointed to me and said “yeah, that’s him.”

Uh oh. Were these people from the IRD? Were the bishops mad? Had Mark Driscoll sent a kneecapper? Had I not tipped the golf cart driver? I was trapped!

Here’s our conversation (vaguely):

Man: “Hi, you don’t know me, but I need to apologize to you.”

Me: “Okay. Whatever for??”

Man: “You know your blog post  ”Delegates NOT Representatives” you wrote earlier this year?

Me: “Yeah…”

Man: “Well, I read part of your blog post from the podium at Annual Conference as part of my own speech. I basically plagiarized it. But it’s worse than that.”

Me: “What’s that?”

Man: “Because of that speech, well, I got elected as a delegate to [an area conference of the United Methodist Church].”

Me: “That’s….really, really awesome!”

Best.Compliment.Ever!!!

Never met the guy, but he read part of our blog here to an entire Annual Conference (!) and was elected as a delegate (!!) to one of the area conference (Jurisdictional or General).

I’m sure he was elected on his own merits…but pretty awesome that we were able to play a part in that.

Hilarious. Made my day, thought I would share.

It’s no secret to readers of this blog and my clergy colleagues that I really don’t like contemporary praise and worship music. But I do appreciate self-deprecating humor and ones that point out the tendency of praise music to praise one’s self or become performance rather than praise.

So here’s a video for you that if you know any P&W songs, or if you avoid P&W songs, you will totally get.

(h/t Missy Meyers on Facebook)

Hilarious!

This is a parody performance of some contemporary worship songs. Here’s the basic titles of the parodies so you can see which of your favorite worship songs they are satirizing.

• I could sing of your love on Sundays.
• I surrender some.
• I stand amazed at my hairdo.
• How Great is This Song.
• Savior, I don’t need a Savior. I’m busy livin’ my life.
• I sung this song for years. And I just go, go through the motions.
• I exalt me.

We’ve got a TON of content coming down the pipe for next week. Be sure to watch this blog and come back next week.

In the meantime, this is my favorite video of today (from a friend on facebook)

Zap!!!