This is pretty much the funniest video ever:
Bean and Bailey Kings
For your viewing pleasure: Some talented entertainers (who graduated from the same college as Carolyn). Enjoy!
iBaseball
One of my favorite discoveries in iTunes has been the old classic baseball games that they sell in their store for just a couple bucks. It used to be that I couldn’t understand why anyone would want to watch video on a tiny little iPod, but since I discovered these baseball games, I now understand completely. It’s great to settle in bed at night and watch a couple innings before going to sleep!
Recently I watched Game 7 of the 1952 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, which the Yanks won. It seemed like two out of every three players was a Hall of Famer: Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Johnny Mize, Phil Rizzuto, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella… maybe others. What great teams!
Then I watched Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, which had one of the greatest moments in sports history when injured MVP Kirk Gibson limped off the bench to pinch hit the game-winning homer in the bottom of the ninth–his only appearance in the Series, in which the underdog L.A. Dodgers beat the stacked Oakland A’s.
Last week I watched the famous Game 6 of the 1986 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets. That one was painful to watch because I was a big Bosox fan that year and at the same time was very anti-Mets. Game 6 was a real heartbreaker. One thing that really struck me is that Bill Buckner has been the scapegoat for that game (and the Series) for almost 22 years now, but he shouldn’t have been. It was a weird game with lots of blown chances and, if I counted right, five official errors between the two teams. There were also hits that could’ve been ruled errors. But why was Buckner the goat and not the others who blew it–most notably Red Sox relief pitchers Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley, who blew a two-run, two-out lead in the bottom of the tenth inning? Before Buckner booted Mookie Wilson’s infamous grounder, Stanley threw a wild pitch to Wilson that allowed the tying run to score. Sure, the winning run scored on Buckner’s error and the Mets went on to win the Series, but Wilson shouldn’t even have had the chance to bat. And not to make excuses, but Buckner did get drilled with a pitch in the top half of that inning, so he had to be hurting. I think it’s an injustice that Buckner has been slapped with the blame for more than two decades.
Next up: the 1978 one-game playoff between the Yankees and the Red Sox….
Breakdancing Boy
This kid can boogie! And just a disclaimer: I have no idea what’s up with the last 45 seconds of the video.
Kung Fu
What if you woke up one day and you suddenly knew kung fu? You no longer have to imagine what that would be like. Just check out this video:
Brian Regan & Pop Tarts
In a post from yesterday I mentioned watching comedian Brian Regan. Thought I’d share some of the funniness:
Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Sometimes in Church World there are questions floating around about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Tom in Australia has made a video that should settle the debate once and for all. Check it out:
Church
Yesterday at CrossWay we began a two-week miniseries called “Creed: Church.” The theme yesterday was the church as a family; next week we look at our mission.
We opened with a video that Carolyn made, set to “Creed” by Rich Mullins. I was so impressed with her work! She did an excellent job, which you can see for yourself by watching the video here:
The church is many things, but it’s primarily a family–the family of God. Everyone who has placed their faith in Jesus Christ is actually a member of God’s own immediate family! Amazingly cool stuff.
The Bible itself is a story about family–about God’s family. He made the first people to be His children (Luke 3:38 calls Adam “the son of God”), which has been His plan ever since. God promised Abraham that he would be the head of a huge family, not a giant corporation. His promise continued through Isaac, through Jacob, through Judah, through David… and on down the family line to Jesus Christ. And through Jesus, His plan is to bring people into His family.
There are many elements that define a family, but three stand out: shared experience, a common language, and reproduction. Sound personal? It is.
The church–as a family–is also defined by these three things. We share experiences together, develop a common language, and reproduce by telling people about Jesus so they can experience a new birth.
The church has done all this throughout history, since its very beginning as recorded in the Book of Acts. Yesterday we read and talked about Acts 2:41-47 to see what the early church family did, so we could learn more about what we should be doing. They were essentially devoted to four things: Bible study, prayer, fellowship, and food. Oh yeah.
The podcast will be up soon, which you can access through the link on the right of this page (if you get this through email, you can find the link by going to this blog’s site).
Serious Surfer Dude
Every day people access this blog through a search on “surfing,” because of the title. They must be perpetually disappointed. So today I thought I’d give ‘em something worth seeing.
