Google Docs is a phenomenal tool. We use it quite a bit over at 704 to keep up with presentations and stuff. I decided to try it out for logging my push up totals. Here’s the chart that I came up with.

A lot of people think it’s normal to have a couple of car payments, a mortgage payment and credit card payments. They just assume that’s part of the price for the “American Dream.” When you start talking to those people about the possibility of life without debt – even house debt – they’ll often look at you like you’ve got 3 heads or something.

But this clip from the Dave Ramsey show underscores why it is so important to not be a slave to the lenders. You never know what might happen in your life that could make things difficult, and being debt free when that happens is quite a blessing. Listen and learn from this caller in Dallas, Texas.

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Hey, youth pastors! The next time you’re preparing a message for your youth groups on the need to stay pure, here’s another illustration for you. Ideally, we’d like all students to practice abstinence until they marry just because they’re so passionate about being pure for Christ, but there are some who won’t do it for that reason. Maybe this story will help convince them.

Apparantly, a college student was upset that a guy slept with her and never called back. Trying to think of a way to get back at him, she concocted the great plan to lure him to a hotel and then have a couple of guys brand his stomach with a wire frame shaped as the letter “R.” Not sure what it stood for. Revenge? Remember? Rigatoni? I’m going with retarded, as in, this girl was retarded.

Anyway, truth is, as they say, stranger than fiction. The full story is at Fox News.