tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82210018561621264482024-03-13T08:45:24.250-05:00The Truth IN ContextRaising the discernment level so terribly lacking in modern evangelicalism.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-49287404314526807952011-07-27T22:29:00.002-05:002011-07-27T22:29:47.393-05:00Embed AudioI would like to embed audio of my sermons here but do not know how to do that. Does anyone know of an easy <i>free</i> way to do this? Leave me a comment.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-22457825337940313712011-02-16T14:28:00.002-06:002011-02-16T14:30:56.771-06:00Dragon ExcerptsI am using Dragon Naturally Speaking to take notes for my Pastoral Counseling class. Today my wife came in and started talking to me, I forgot to sleep the mike, when I went back to work my notes had this in the middle of them. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">a. I later got you want to hear that you are pretty good home cooking or what seven dollars $3.02 dollars will come on, after all the money he made his fame yesterday eight dollars for his haircut or even a diet red great to have that irony. Oh for how much he is as early about the hate and re transfers take you out of the house to go to surgery no post tomorrow Friday for a new government take over lunch at the OU where I'll attend affiliate in me okay okay, I read, so it would if he doesn't get a 4530 ministry accuracy should leave that he has to be kinky, Mike D. Blair yesterday with a thin denial discouraging they can't people have plans. So it was simply my knowing a picture. I hate my stomach when I don't have turns their own nursery homes to. Are you Andrew always do a matter of, you can go up</span><br /><br />Oh well, back to workAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-81307426182103112162010-10-08T11:30:00.001-05:002010-10-08T11:30:12.921-05:00Rick WarrenRick spoke at this years DGNC, I am still miffed as to why John Piper had him but he did. Much has been made of Rick's no show at the conference. Some say he did not want the pressure of having to answer direct questions from well-read reformed Christians. Personally I have no way of knowing the real reason Warren appeared via video message but this I do know. Rick Warren's character is above reproach. If he says he has persons close to him in need that require his presence in Southern California I believe him. As to his message, well, once a heretic.....<div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'>Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.2</div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-84499580996668147942010-10-05T09:38:00.001-05:002010-10-05T09:38:00.810-05:00I Live In An Interesting Place,,, Or Not!<p><a href='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HnbKxor5eks/TKs4Pve0_VI/AAAAAAAAAF8/YTNqMCE7pys/2010-10-05%2009.32.35.jpg'><img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_HnbKxor5eks/TKs4Pve0_VI/AAAAAAAAAF8/YTNqMCE7pys/s400/2010-10-05%2009.32.35.jpg' /></a></p>I am testing uploading a picture from my Android phone. This is a picture of an app on my iPad and shows just how interesting the place we moved to is.<div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'>Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.2</div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-19666604029891263452010-10-03T14:22:00.002-05:002010-10-03T14:27:57.833-05:00Tidying Up The PlaceI have been cleaning up the blog since it has been a couple of years since I paid it any attention. Yesterday I was cleaning up the blogroll, deleting old ones, looking for new ones to add, when I ran across a blog by a woman taking care of her parents, what are the odds?<br /><br />I thought I would post about this and direct my readers, how ever few there be, her way. Go visit the blog and comment, I am sure she could use the encouragement. Find her here: <a href="http://adventuresineldersitting.blogspot.com/">Adventures In Eldersitting</a>.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-55177629848286315942010-10-02T17:46:00.002-05:002010-10-02T17:49:00.460-05:00Hermeneutics ObservationI am doing Hermeneutics as a directed study, which means since there are no lectures I have to read about 5000 pages. I don't care who you are that's a lot of reading. Currently I am reading "Let The Reader Understand" by Dan McCartney and Charles Clayton. I must say, being about two-thirds through the book, it is an excellent introduction to the discipline. <br /> <br /> I used to swear by the NASB because it was the most literal of all the translations. I am not so wooden, get it, that's a pun, in my stance any longer. Having spent the last two years studying Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, not to mention English has opened my eyes to the fact that a wooden translation is not always the best. A couple of sentences in the book I am reading sumarize my paradigm shift beautifully. "A 'literal' translation is not 'more accurate' than an idomatic one. Quite the reverse; an idiomatic translation, if it is a good one, is much more likely to convey the exact meaning than a literal one." <br /> <br /> Don't get me wrong, I still love the NASB and The Message still sucks but the NIV and the ESV often give a better sense of the original language than does the NASB. This is due to the fluidity of language and wood can not be fluid. Just an observation, go Wolverines!<div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'>Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.1</div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-8943354127439869242010-09-30T20:04:00.001-05:002010-09-30T20:04:17.887-05:00Are We As Crazy As The Liberals?I don't know why but I am following a liberal Presbyterian on Twitter. He is insane. He curses like a sailor, calls me and several others "fundieloons," and has compassion for everyone{except the "fundieloons"}, even celebrating their sin. <br/> <br/> Over the past several days there have been some suicides of some teens who were apparantly homosexual. He is blaming the "fundieloons." Now there are those "conservative christians" who resort to vulgar language and have no compassion, I am thinking here of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist folk, but I think they are a small minority among conservatives and I loath being lumped in with them. I, as a conservative Christian, would treat these young ones as I would anyone living in unrepentant sin. With love I would point them to Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, who lived the sinless life we never could, died the perfect sacrificial death to pay for our sins and rose again on the third day assuring us of eternal life. The gospel of God is strong enough to save even sinners such as these poor young men who felt they had no option but to take their own lives. <br/> <br/> If I could talk with this liberal on twitter without him cursing me out or resorting to ad-hominem attacks I would ask him what is more loving, telling them there is escape from this sin in the gospel of Christ or telling them it is ok to live their lives in a sin that will condem them to hell? <br/> <br/> Finally, the point I began this post thinking about is this. Are we as guilty of misrepresenting the liberals sometimes as they are of us? What say you?<div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'>Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.0</div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-39949115816831383562010-09-28T16:52:00.000-05:002010-09-28T16:53:00.165-05:00I Have A New Phone!My wife and I got new cell phones last week. We were due for upgrades and since her Centro was literally falling apart we went for the newly released Samsung Epic. I was going to get the new HTC Evo but the slide out keyboard and super amoled screen sold me on the epic. This is an adroid phone so now I just need Logos to put out their android app and all will be well in the world. They do have a Blogger app, which I am using now, so maybe I will get around to posting more often. One thing I don't like is the battery life on this thing,, gotta run now and charge my new phone, again.<div style='clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: xx-small;'>Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.0</div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-30693713392579475252010-01-11T08:22:00.003-06:002010-01-11T08:58:51.705-06:00What Is Redemptive-Historical Preaching?I have had a couple of people comment on my previous post and ask what RH preaching is so I will try and explain it using as many monosyllabic words as possible. Basically RH preaching takes Jesus' words in LK 24:27 seriously, "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." <br /><br />The Bible is a Redemptive-Historical book. Gen. 1-3 informs us of the creation and fall of mankind. Gen. 4-Rev. 22 informs us of God's redeeming of fallen mankind. It is easy to find Christ and His work in the New Testament, but Christ Himself informs us the whole of the Old Testament is about Him as well. <br /><br />Let me give an example. It is all too easy today to find someone preach the David and Goliath passage as moralistic. What do I mean by this? Well what you might hear is a sermon on "What are the giants in your life?" or "What are the smooth stones in your life that can help your slay the giants in your life?" The problem with this is the sermon is then centered on you, the listener, instead of Christ. David in this story is a type of Christ, a foreshadowing of the great deliverer to come. When David defeats the giant the Old Testament is preparing the people of God for the coming of Messiah. To make the listener live up to a type of Christ in David is just plain cruel, this is a burden no believer should have to endure.<br /><br />In this story if one must identify with anyone it surely is the Israelites who stood around, afraid of the giant waiting until a deliverer finally arrived on the scene. We should be able to identify often with the people of Israel, miserable failures who are graciously delivered by a merciful God.<br /><br />One accusation leveled against RH preaching is that it is against application. This is entirely unfounded. There is a small group who surely feel this way but the vast majority of Biblical Theologians do not. Biblical Theology and Redemptive-Historical for the most part go hand in hand. RH preachers most assuredly believe in application, as one of my former pastors said you have to make sure you answer the "So what," of the sermon. Meaning the listener in the pew is saying "so what," to the sermon until the pastor informs him.<br /><br />The bottom line is this, a Christian sermon must be about Christ, not about the listener. Let me give two quick diagnostics you may use when listening to a sermon. The first is very simple, ask yourself "Did Christ have to die to make what is being said in this sermon true?" If the answer is no, you have not heard preaching, you have heard a lecture. The second is three parts but I find this one very helpful. 1)Is Jesus mentioned? Don't laugh you could go for months listening to Joel Osteen and not hear a thing about Christ. 2)If Jesus is mentioned, is He the subject of the verbs? Is He doing the action or is being acted on? 3)If He is mentioned and He is the subject of the verbs, what are those verbs? Is He making you happy, healthy, wealthy? Or is He suffering and dying on a cross for the redemption of the believers, and is He rising again on the third day assuring us of eternal life.<br /><br />I hope this helps shed some light for some of you. I also want to say how delighted I am to have at least a couple of people reading this while my posting has been so terribly sparse. Feel free to ask any more questions if I have not lived up to expectations with this post.<br /><br />In Christ,<br />AlanAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-9347782524392037192009-12-27T20:14:00.002-06:002009-12-27T20:29:18.005-06:00The Skinny on Redemptive Historical PreachingThere seems to be much misunderstanding down here in the deep south about RH preaching. It appears that few here consider this method of preaching worthwhile. I find that unfortunate because it appears that the reaction against this Biblical preaching method leads to some very suspect sermons. <br /><br />First let me set the record straight, RH preaching is not against application. This comes from a small, vocal minority from the pacific north west that is against any type of application. I do not support this and most Biblical Theologians do not either. There are plenty of imperative verbs in the NT, that is undeniable, the only point of contention I have is that they flow naturally out of the indicatives. It is only in light of what Christ has done for us that we are able to do what the Lord commands.<br /><br />Second let me say I have heard some very moralistic sermons here that encourage believers to "Dare to be a David" or "Don't be like Moses." The problem with these kind of sermons are that these historical characters are types of Christ's we are not to emulate. To be sure there are examples we should identify with, we just need to make sure we identify with the proper ones. We are not to see ourselves as David defeating Goliath, we should see ourselves as the Israelites who stood by and did nothing to defeat this foe but were delivered by the type of Christ David was.<br /><br />I write this in light of a comment I received from a local pastor who seems very opposed to the RH method. He has offered to come have lunch with me and I look forward to this. I have come to respect this particular pastor from interaction I have had with him on a yahoo newsgroup I have been involved with since before I began attending seminary. That being said, Ken I look forward to spending time with you and learning from your years in the pulpit.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-78973837821554543742009-08-04T12:43:00.001-05:002009-08-04T12:44:45.879-05:00Logos is giving away Bibles!!!Logos is giving away 12 Bibles during the month of August and I just entered to win. 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Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That's how she learned how to swim. I said,<br />'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.' "<br /> --Paula Poundstone<br /><br />"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."<br /> --Paul Rodriguez<br /><br />"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"<br />Paul Merton. <br /><br />"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."<br />Steven WrightAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-80469718733591730592009-05-18T19:01:00.002-05:002009-05-18T19:07:22.363-05:00Something FunOk, summer is here and I survived my first year of seminary. I hope to publish a few things this summer, some insights from seminary, things I have learned or whatever strikes my fancy. I thought I would share this video because deep inside me there is an artist struggling to get out. I played guitar in a couple of bands as a young pagan and always thought I wanted to be a rock star. This inner artist has never left me and I am always looking for interesting videos on the net and this is one. I know I probably don't have many readers left after taking nearly a year off but at least I can use this as a forum for speaking my mind and if anyone reads this I hope it will be enjoyed. I know I usually am hunting heretics or speaking on the finer points of divergence between the infralapsarian and the supralapsarian but just sit back for a few minutes and enjoy this. Btw, SG, did you catch the sample in there, if you did let me know. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e3kyNGVK-hI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e3kyNGVK-hI&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-68279837336822772782009-05-14T13:32:00.001-05:002009-05-14T13:32:43.514-05:00Quote of the DayOnce a man makes the conversion of sinners his prime design and all-consuming end and NOT THE GLORY OF GOD, he is exceedingly apt to adopt a wrong course. Instead of striving to preach the Truth in all its purity, he will tone it down so as to make it more palatable to the unregenerate. Impelled by a single force, moving in one fixed direction, his object is to make conversion easy; and therefore, favorite passages (like John 3:16) are dwelt upon incessantly, while others are ignored or pared away. It inevitably reacts upon his own theology; and various verses in the Word are shunned, if not repudiated. What place will he give in his thoughts to such declarations as, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" (Jer. 13:23); "No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw Him" (John 6:44); "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you" (John 15:14)? <br />He will be sorely tempted to modify the truth of God's sovereign election, of Christ's particular redemption, of the imperative necessity for the super-natural operations of the Holy Spirit. <br /><br />Arthur W. PinkAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-71748159991752470302009-05-11T20:25:00.002-05:002009-05-11T20:29:05.023-05:00Covenant Theology Final TomorrowWhat is Covenant Theology?<br /><br />Covenant Theology is the Gospel set in the context of God's eternal plan of communion with his people, and its historical outworking in the covenants of works and grace. Covenant Theology explains the meaning of the death of Christ in light of the fullness of the biblical teaching on the divine covenants, undergirds our understanding of the nature and use of the sacraments, and provides the fullest possible explanation of the grounds of our assurance.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-37013209469515804192009-05-09T14:07:00.001-05:002009-05-09T14:08:50.202-05:00Quote of the DayI found this on monergism.com, I am not sure who it is but it is very true!<br /><br />"If we are not in covenant with God, we will never know him at all. And if we do not understand the importance of the covenants, we will not be able to make much sense of vast portions of the bible. What was it, in the simplest mode of expression, that Jesus shed his blood to accomplish? According to his own words at the last Supper, the significance of his death was summed up in one term, “New Covenant” (Matthew 26:28). If we do not understand covenant terminology, this will leave us at best with a very fuzzy understanding of the benefits of Christ's death; and if we do not understand the unity and organic connectedness of the divine covenants, we will miss the coherence of the bible, the unity of God's redemptive design, and the centrality of the Christ of the covenants, who is the bible's great hero."Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-62229048232902810972009-05-08T12:19:00.001-05:002009-05-08T12:21:31.666-05:00Paul WasherI pray that one day I have half this mans boldness.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iWMrKcFKqzk&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iWMrKcFKqzk&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-58404588882094549012009-05-06T19:15:00.002-05:002009-05-06T19:25:28.058-05:00Another Quote"Have you ever noticed that most conferences on evangelism concentrate on methods and not on the message content?"<br />"There is too much moralizing in evangelical preaching and not enough magnifying of grace in Jesus."<br />--Will Metzger in "Tell the Truth."Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-76859300104190704182009-05-06T11:50:00.002-05:002009-05-06T11:53:50.800-05:00Quotes Of The Day“It is my conviction that many who are presently disposed toward Dispensationalism would not be victims of the system if they were better acquainted and informed about the system and its history - its theological roots and the doctrinal errors it has spawned.” <br />--The Late Ernest Reisinger, Pastor Emeritus, Grace Baptist Church, Coral Springs, FL<br /><br />"Dispensationalism has thrown down the gauntlet; and it is high time that covenant theologians take up the challenge and respond to them Biblically."<br />--Dr. Robert L. Reymond, author, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith<br /><br />“The flawed system of theology known as Dispensationalism has had a negative influence on the Christian church over the last 150 years or so. The debilitating results of this errant theology needs to be corrected for the church of Christ to be about her work of fulfilling the Great Commission given to her by her Lord (Matthew 28:18-20). <br />--Dr. W. Gary Crampton, author, Calvinism, Hyper-Calvinism & ArminianismAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-78489803402516989042009-04-17T10:06:00.003-05:002009-04-17T10:10:35.118-05:00Seminary vs. The BlogI have discovered something as my first year of seminary comes to an end, those who are in seminary and still blog are letting something in their studies slip. I am not kidding, so many people tell me you can't do ALL the reading, yes you can, if you stop blogging. I may be a bit obsessive here but it can be done and since it is in the syllabus probably should be done. I hope to post a few over the summer but we shall see.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-2240256528824074792009-02-06T13:21:00.001-06:002009-02-06T13:23:07.466-06:00Logos Has A Cool GiveawayI know I have not posted in quite some time, Greek and Hebrew are keeping me very busy, but this is a great offer from Logos I just had to pass on. Not to mention it gets me another entry into the drawing:)<br /><br />Bible Study Magazine and Mars Hill are giving away 20 copies of Mark Driscoll’s new book, Vintage Church. Not only that, but they are also giving away five subscriptions to <a href="http://www.biblestudymagazine.com">Bible Study Magazine</a> and a copy of their <a href="http://www.logos.com/biblestudy">Bible Study Library</a> software! Enter to win on the Bible Study Magazine <a href="http://www.biblestudymagazine.com/driscoll/">Mark Driscoll</a> page, then take a look at all the cool tools they have to take your <a href="http://www.logos.com/demo">Bible study</a> to the next level!Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-30940804685890790262008-12-11T21:13:00.002-06:002008-12-11T21:20:22.573-06:00If Anyone Still Reads ThisThe semester is over and I made it out alive, as a matter of fact I made it out with an A in Hebrew even though I was sick twice and missed several classes. I got a B in Greek translation and a C in Greek Exegesis, Hey I'll take it, Dr. Waters grades tough!<br /><br />I got a new Palm Centro last weekend and am loving it. We switched to Sprint with their unlimited data plan and get live streaming NFL network 24/7. Yeah, I am the only one in the family who is loving that, but I AM loving that. I loaded up all of my Olive Tree software on Sunday and the free ereader and now have a library of several hundred books with me wherever I go. I love this thing, I thought the small keyboard and screen would be a pain but neither is true. The keyboard is amazingly easy to use considering the size and the screen, with the high-res, is easy on the eyes. I know many do not like the Palm OS but I am used to it and am kind of excited about the new OS coming out next year. I highly recommend the Centro.Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-89038179431045128652008-11-16T09:51:00.004-06:002008-11-16T19:58:00.142-06:00Sex Talk In Church Is WrongNothing makes me more tired than these "new" sex talk from the pulpit. First I find them unnecessary. We have survived millenniums without them, and second some things are not to be publicized. This video disgusts me.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JkEImFpndGE&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JkEImFpndGE&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-8138242676970690042008-11-15T13:30:00.001-06:002008-11-15T13:30:50.663-06:00WOW!<embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/845749/strangelydrawn_speed_painting_ray_charles.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br><font size = 1><a href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/845749/strangelydrawn_speed_painting_ray_charles/">StrangelyDrawn Speed Painting - "Ray Charles"</a> - <a href="http://www.metacafe.com/">Watch more funny videos here</a></font>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221001856162126448.post-47086850728895440852008-11-15T11:36:00.003-06:002008-11-15T11:37:25.452-06:00What?We have heard of things like this before. I believe it was sometime in the 1930's in a land called GERMANY!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l0B7dOQwKm0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l0B7dOQwKm0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01152987444260369287noreply@blogger.com0