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5min - The Wrong Ball Football Play - Video

Link: 5min - The Wrong Ball Football Play - Video.

zen habits tumblelog - 5 Best Things to Say When Caught Sleeping at Your Desk:

Link: zen habits tumblelog - 5 Best Things to Say When Caught Sleeping at Your Desk:.

5 Best Things to Say When Caught Sleeping at Your Desk:

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5. "They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen."     *

4. "This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time management course you sent me to."     *

3. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the Whiteout. You probably got here just in time."     *

2. "Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?"     *

And the NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk...     *

1. Raise your head slowly and say, "...in Jesus' name, Amen."

Devon Hester tackled by Josh Brown?

Hey Broncos fans!  This is how you do it...it is not that hard.

Howstuffworks "What if everybody flushed their toilets at the same time?"

Link: Howstuffworks "What if everybody flushed their toilets at the same time?".

Since as far as we could find out -- no one's ever tried it before -- we can't say for certain exactly what would happen. But we can take a pretty good guess: "It would be ugly," says Steve Cox, one wastewater treatment facility operator we interviewed.

best campaign ad of 2007

via: Huck's first ad is vintage Huck - Jonathan Martin's Blog - Politico.com.

God is not nice

Here it is...the God is not Nice "e-perience".  Please note that once you leave this site I do not vouch for all the content on the site you will look at.

I opened by talking about the barking dog trick.  You can read about it here.

Wow does Jesus get angry once in a while.  Look at this...

It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. In the Temple area he saw merchants selling cattle, sheep, and doves for sacrifices; he also saw dealers at tables exchanging foreign money. Jesus made a whip from some ropes and chased them all out of the Temple. He drove out the sheep and cattle, scattered the money changers’ coins over the floor, and turned over their tables. Then, going over to the people who sold doves, he told them, “Get these things out of here. Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”  Then his disciples remembered this prophecy from the Scriptures: “Passion for God’s house will consume me.”  (John 2:13-17, NLT)

Yes, Jesus can get angry.  And as a matter of fact, I want to suggest he is not nice as we commonly define nice.

1.	pleasing; agreeable; delightful: a nice visit.

2.	amiably pleasant; kind: They are always nice to strangers.

3.	characterized by, showing, or requiring great accuracy, precision, skill, tact, care, or delicacy: nice workmanship; a nice shot; a nice handling of a crisis.

4.	showing or indicating very small differences; minutely accurate, as instruments: a job that requires nice measurements.

5.	minute, fine, or subtle: a nice distinction.

6.	having or showing delicate, accurate perception: a nice sense of color.

7.	refined in manners, language, etc.: Nice people wouldn't do such things.

8.	virtuous; respectable; decorous: a nice girl.

9.	suitable or proper: That was not a nice remark.

10.	carefully neat in dress, habits, etc.

11.	(esp. of food) dainty or delicate.

12.	having fastidious, finicky, or fussy tastes: They're much too nice in their dining habits to enjoy an outdoor barbecue.

13.	Obsolete. coy, shy, or reluctant.

14.	Obsolete. unimportant; trivial.

No, Jesus has an aggressive side.  Jesus fights.  What is true about fighting nature of Jesus?

1.  It is Righteous at all times.

• The funny church signs....

• The Confusing Church Signs

• The church signs that display, in my humble opinion, arrogance.

Want more?

1. Here are a few I marked at Flickr.
2. This is the source of most of these, Crummy Church Signs.
   

• This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.   Hebrews 4:15, NLT

2.  It is always for the sake of others.

• Now this is a story about getting mad when you are inconvenienced.  Check out what happended this week in the airport in Sydney....customers booed Qantas employees who jumped out from behind the counter to help an 80 year old woman who collapsed.

• Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.   (Phil 2:5-8, The Message)

3.  It seems to be directed and institutions and not at individuals.

• How would telling people to be nice to one another get a man crucified?  What government would execute Mr. Rogers or Captain Kangaroo?”  Phillip Yancey

• The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9, NIV

• Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1, NIV)

Finally, look at what C. S. Lewis said to close out The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

'Safe?' said Mr. Beaver...'Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you.'"

God is good, but he is not nice.  He gets angry and picks fights.  But he does so for the sake of you and for me. 

Recommended Reading...

No More Christian Nice Guy: When Being Nice--Instead of Good--Hurts Men, Women And Children

The Jesus I Never Knew

Who Is My Enemy?

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

(Disclaimer...I would receive a small commission if you buy a book from these links.)

More effects of last years blizzard

Link: Blizzard of babies reported in Denver - CNN.com.

(CNN) -- The weather can affect your travel, your mood and apparently the size of your family.  Edie is a proud blizzard baby, and her parents have already bought her a snowsuit for this year.

Denver hospitals are reporting a baby boom, which is arriving about nine months after two blizzards walloped Colorado's capital city. With roads shut down for days, couples were stuck at home and apparently cuddled up to stay warm.

um, um good

Link: Gallery: The Most Curious Comestibles Found Online.

A picture of the church from...

..kleenex?

A PSA for those who read this blog

A PSA for those who read this blog... From the book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the tradition of Halloween trick-or-treating came under attack. Rumors circulated about Halloween sadists who put razor blades in apples and booby-trapped pieces of candy. The rumors affected the Halloween tradition nationwide. Parents carefully examined their children's candy bags. Schools opened their doors at night so that kids could trick-or-treat in a safe environment. Hospitals volunteered to X-ray candy bags. In 1985, an ABC News poll showed that 60 percent of parents worried that their children might be victimized. To this day, many parents warn their children not to eat any snacks that aren't prepack-aged. This is a sad story: a family holiday sullied by bad people who, inexplicably, wish to harm children. But in 1985 the story took a strange twist. Researchers discovered something shocking about the candy-tampering epidemic: It was a myth. The researchers, sociologists Joel Best and Gerald Horiuchi, studied every reported Halloween incident since 1958. They found no in-stances where strangers caused children life-threatening harm on Halloween by tampering with their candy. Two children did die on Halloween, but their deaths weren't caused by strangers. A five-year-old boy found his uncle's heroin stash and overdosed. His relatives initially tried to cover their tracks by sprinkling heroin on his candy. In another case, a father, hoping to collect on an insurance settlement, caused the death of his own son by contaminating his candy with cyanide. In other words, the best social science evidence reveals that taking candy from strangers is perfectly okay. It's your family you should worry about.

So watch out tonight people.

Jeff at the Rockies Game

I was able to, as the guest of a generous church member, attend game 4 of the World Series.  My camera battery was dead so I took these with my phone.  Sorry for the lousy quality.

Me before the first pitch.



I was down by the left field foul pole...a few feet from Manny.



The view from my seat.



In spite of the loss, it was great to be there.  Looking forward to 2008.

I just wanted to let you know that...

I am now posting some of my daily web finds over at a new link blog.  You can find it at jeffberg.tumblr.com. 

It offers an RSS feed as well if interested. 

If the Rockies end in a tie with more than one team...

Link: ESPN - Tied in knots: NL has variety of playoff scenarios - MLB.

Phil the Gorilla

Link: The River of Jeff Berg.