[HT: Rev Kev]

Let’s rethink Christmas. Or at least think about Christmas. How often do we just act on impulse and get caught up into the “Christmas Spirit” of capitalism, selfishness and Wal-Mart. Let’s break the cycle this year.

Prayer is a beautiful thing.

Like them or hate them, it doesn’t matter. Because of Gun ‘n Roses you all can have a free Dr. Pepper. Think I’m kidding? Read this:

 Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy is a reality.

The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008.Chinese Democracy, infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.

“We never thought this day would come,” Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper’s vice president of marketing, said in a statement. “But now that it’s here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper’s on us.”

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper’s website. They’ll be honored until Feb. 28.  [USA TODAY]

So thank you Axl Rose for my free Dr. Pepper. 

Go here to redeem your free coupon : http://www.drpepper.com/ (remember contest starts Sunday, so you can’t get your free coupon today…). Myspace or twitter your youth group…

And if you’re interested in listening to the newest Guns ‘n Roses album: Chinese Democracy (one of the longest awaited albums - 17  years in the making)… it’s been streamed on myspace. 

GNR Myspace

I went to the World Visions AIDS Experience back at the YS Conference. It was so well done and moving. Then I recently found out that World Vision is running this experience about an hour from our offices. So today, the youth are out of school and we’re talking a trip to go to this experience. It’s very, very powerful. 

If you have a chance to go, you really should (and it’s free). 

You can experience a mini version of it here online.

To see if it’s in a city near you, go here:

http://www.wvexperience.org/