Praise the Lord and start your engines

by editor on July 28, 2011

Here’s Pastor Joe Nelms of the Family Baptist Church in Lebanon, Tennessee delivering the greatest prayer in the history of NASCAR. Maybe even the greatest prayer in the history of prayers.

Say hallelujah!

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Babydoll102187 July 28, 2011 at 4:00 pm

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Boogity, Boogity, Boogity!

And the only main stream sport in our country that still has a public invocation as far as I know.

I love Nascar, Cledus T. Judd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LLvfpGpEyg
Enjoy! :)

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Jay July 28, 2011 at 4:01 pm

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RIM July 28, 2011 at 4:29 pm

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Ephesians 5:20
Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, 20 always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Warren July 29, 2011 at 2:27 am

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Amen!

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Warren July 29, 2011 at 2:32 am

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Have you ever seen paintings from the Renascence era? They *loved* “well fed” women. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and who gives a crap if no one else thinks his wife is smokin’ hot? He does. He isn’t married to you or anyone that thinks otherwise. He is married to her. And those parts he was praying about? They are what keep the mahcines running, people getting paid and the drivers safe on the track. Why not thank God for them? I thank God for my IBUYPOWER Pc that has run great for 2 years and is *still* running good.

In the end though it was a prayer but it was also a reference to a well known Nascar movie that probably most of the people there have seen. OMGosh a Prayer with humor in it? We shouldn’t do that either. God forbid we bring some levity in this crappy time we live in.

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Jay July 29, 2011 at 6:05 am

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kb July 29, 2011 at 1:03 pm

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Well…don’t you feel superior??

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Noelegy July 30, 2011 at 11:32 am

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Well, as recently as the Sixties, Marilyn Monroe was the standard of beauty, though she’d be considered fat today because she was a size 16. What’s beautiful today may have little resemblance to what’s beautiful tomorrow. And yes, those Rubens women were hefty lasses. :)

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drb July 30, 2011 at 12:06 pm

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No, she was not a size 16. She was a size 8 for most of her career, size 10 when she became a bit plumpier. That said today sizes run smaller than they did in MM’s day. So her size 8 was probably a 10 by today’s standard.

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FormerlyDeanH July 30, 2011 at 12:08 pm

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I found that size datum a bit difficult to square.

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Sidekick July 28, 2011 at 4:34 pm

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Guy sounds like Ricky Bobby in “Talladega Nights”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0-u85aAYg

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danybhoy July 28, 2011 at 4:38 pm

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Jay’s dumbass comments aside, this invocation video kicks ass. But it is only the 2nd funniest thing I’ve seen lately…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

…I will say upfront, there is some profane language, so you have been warned.

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Jay July 29, 2011 at 6:01 am

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RockingHorseGuy July 29, 2011 at 10:07 am

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That video was pretty good, Dany

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YT July 28, 2011 at 5:24 pm

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How much did GM performance products and good year tire pay God to plaster their logo on a prayer?

Prraaiiseeee da laaawd! He made us good tiires and biiig IC engines that make laots of noise. If ma son cletus and little gurl kristale pray hard ee-nuf two U then dey can be good inventers 1 day 2.

Somewhere Jesus is slapping his forehead and standing in line to buy a Honda.

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Ruben July 28, 2011 at 9:08 pm

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…and saying, “I could’ve had a V-8!”

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YT July 28, 2011 at 11:25 pm

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like that NA diesel one from the 80′s that was a real winner?

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CO2Insanity July 28, 2011 at 9:17 pm

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He should have prayed to get rid of the clone cars.

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Manfred July 29, 2011 at 4:02 am

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That man is no pastor. The gospel minister is about proclaiming Christ’s atoning work for the salvation of sinners – not tickling the ears of humans. The Christian religion is not about having fun – though much fun is OK. Christians are not to mock God nor make light of representing Him in front of people – which is what this “pastor” did. He should repent.

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Jay July 29, 2011 at 5:56 am

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I agree, Manfred. There’s just more than a little emphasis on playing to the audience here, as well as in church services.

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tcstorm1 July 29, 2011 at 6:30 am

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now that’s how you reach out to the masses.

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stephen July 29, 2011 at 6:42 am

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open air preaching? FOOL!!! nothing like George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards!

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