WHAT A WAY TO GO (The #1 blog of the year)
Posted on December 10th, 2005 by Reformed Pope into the When We Quit, Top Ten 2005 categoryI am a superstitious man. It’s true.
This blog is supposed to end this weekend. Sunday marks the one year anniversary of when we started counting traffic to our site. Over 80,000 hits, in one year…that’s impressive.
The problem is that I’m enjoying the blog again. We’ve got new readers…new comments…new people telling us we’re bitter. How can I give this up now??? Well, I’ll tell you.
Last night when I went to drive home from work, my car wouldn’t start. Ok, all you closet CBC readers, have your laugh. Go running out of the Generation Ministry offices and give each other high fives. The Pope’s car won’t start…isn’t God good (all the time).
I called Justin; told him my car wouldn’t start and that I was ending the blog. He agreed.
Fortunately, it was just a dead battery; I got a jump and went home. On the way home I had to question my rash decision to end the blog, after all, it was just a dead battery. Nothing serious.
Regardless, I’ve decided… when it’s time, it’s time. I am done participating in this blog. You don’t believe me? Well…
I’m not going to explain this blog again. I’m not going to say why I blog. I’m not going to try to defend what this blog has done. All I am going to say is….
82,800 hits…and counting
1 article written in the Pulitzer Prize winning Willamette Week
1 threatened lawsuit
1 million laughs…and counting
I can’t think of any better way to end this then by posting the #1 blog of the year…it’s actually 2 blogs…both of them Christmas songs…both of them hilarious… both of them written by Jesse and Joel Morton. Congratulations boys…Merry Frankmas.
Catalyst got run over by a Lasit
Catalyst got run over by a Lasit
Walking home from blogging Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as Dougie,
But as for Joel and Jesse, we believe.
He’d been drinkin’ way too much egg nog,
And we’d begged him not to go.
But he’d left his medication,
So he stumbled out the door into the snow.
When they found him Christmas mornin’,
At the scene of the attack.
There were hoof prints on his forehead,
And incriminatin’ dollar marks on his back.
Catalyst got run over by a Lasit,
Walkin’ home from blogging Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as Dougie,
But as for Joel and Jesse, we believe.
DOUGIE THE BROWN NOSED PASTOR
(Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer.)
You know Scheidler and Mishler and Estes and Louman,
Jaimeson and Rachinski and Joneses and Nashif,
But do you recall, The most famous pastor of all?
Dougie, the brown-nosed pastor
Had a very dirty nose.
And if you ever saw itYou would even say it shows.
All of the other pastors
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Dougie
join in any pastor games.
Then one foggy Faith Harvest
Damazio came to say,
"Dougie with your nose so brown,
Won’t you guide my lexus home"?
Then how the pastors loved him
And they shouted out with glee,
"Dougie the brown-nosed pastor,
You’ll go down in history"!
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December 10th, 2005 at 4:26 pm
By the way I think the over/under on how long I’ll be away from this blog is currently 2 weeks.
See Jesse, to place bets.
December 11th, 2005 at 6:38 am
The Dark Side is strong, yes it is.
Resist not the Dark Side. It calls to you, it does. Longing to have you, is the Dark Side, for it knows your heart and hears your fear. Futile is your effort to resist it, yes. The Dark Side is strong, and you are weak.
Join us, young one, for there is power in the Dark Side of which you know nothing. Join us, and together we will rule the… uh… rule the … umm… damn. Ok, I guess we’ll just have a good time then!
December 12th, 2005 at 8:01 am
It’s been a good run. Alot of people owe you both a debt of thanks just for making them realize they weren’t the only ones that thought there was something “wrong” at CBC and not with them. Thanks and Merry Frankmas!
December 12th, 2005 at 10:12 am
This is about the 50th time JP has quit this blog. We’ll see how long he lasts.
December 12th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Well, if this is the end, I’ll sure miss it.
December 13th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
I’ll take the over/under but only if Jesse books the whole deal 100%! No sportsaction involved.
December 14th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
A final parting thought from Spurgeon
December 10, 2005
SO WE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD.
1 Thessalonians 4:17
Even the sweetest glimpses of Christ are short-how transitory they are! One moment our eyes see Him, and we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; but then the moment passes and we do not see Him, for our beloved withdraws Himself from us. Like a roe or a young hare He leaps over the mountains of division; He is gone to the land of spices and no longer feeds among the lilies.
If today He deigns to bless us
With a sense of pardoned sin,
He tomorrow may distress us,
Make us feel the plague within.
How sweet the prospect of the time when we will no longer see Him from a distance but rather face to face-when He will not be like a traveler staying only for a night but will enfold us in the bosom of His eternal glory. We will not see Him for a little while, but
Millions of years our wondering eyes,
Shall o’er our Savior’s beauties rove;
And myriad ages we’ll adore,
The wonders of His love.
In heaven we will not be interrupted by care or sins; no weeping will dim our eyes; no earthly business will distract our happy thoughts. We will have nothing to prevent us from gazing forever on the Sun of Righteousness with tireless eyes. If it is so sweet to see Him now and then, how wonderful to gaze on that blessed face forever, and without a cloud rolling between, and never have to turn one’s eyes away to look on a tired and sinful world. When will this blessed day dawn? Rise, unsetting sun! If to die is to enter into uninterrupted communion with Jesus, then death is swallowed up in a sea of victory and is definitely gain.
behold the Lamb of God