Saturday night cop out

Well it's time for the final post of the week. I can't believe that there is only one week left in my Lenten journey (which of course means that there is only one week left until the Easter season begins - eek!). It's been an amazing ride and I've virtually cleaned out my home collection of Transformers. By the end of this season I will have parted ways with 42 figures and will only have seven remaining at home (I won't tell you how many I have at the office but you're more than welcome to stop by on Wednesday mornings and count them).

Next week I will begin unravelling the plan we have in place for the Easter season as a church and sharing with you a bit of the plans that God has laid on my heart - SPOILER ALERT - it's going to be awesome! But for tonight I'm going to cop out a little bit and share something that I found interesting this week:

A friend of mine who runs a similar (but much better written) type of blog while he's working on his PhD studies in Scotland recently linked to this survey to help categorize your theological worldview. It's an interesting exercise and I found that it pegged me pretty well. Take it for a spin if you dare and see how well it reflects your views. Here are my detailed results.

You Scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan

You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God's grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives you assurance of your salvation, and he also enables you to live the life of obedience to which God has called us. You are influenced heavily by John Wesley and the Methodists.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan

93%

Neo orthodox

82%

Emergent/Postmodern

75%

Reformed Evangelical

54%

Charismatic/Pentecostal

54%

Classical Liberal

39%

Roman Catholic

36%

Modern Liberal

25%

Fundamentalist

11%

Interesting stuff. And now for today's Transformer.

Apparently Red Bull isn't the only thing that gives you wiiiiiinnngggs - because something has happened to our favourite ruthless robotic tyrant and Megatron has gotten wings and a new paint scheme to boot.

This is Classics Voyager Metagron - one of the centrepieces of the classics toy line and the first time in a long number of years that Megatron returned as a hand gun rather than a tank, jet, dragon or whatnot. He's not the famous P38 Walther pistol that everyone remembers but at least he vaguely resembles his Generation One incarnation. Here he has been re-imagined as a space pistol of some form that looks enough like a pistol to homage the original Megatron but cartoonish enough to satisfy child safety advocates and gun control advocates by not replicating a real weapon. Right down to the mandatory orange tip in the gun mode.

It's interesting that the Japanese Henkei version of Metagron (based on this same mold) is decorated in authentic Generation One blacks, greys and reds  - making it a much more highly sought after version of this figure for collectors. Hasbro's version was good - but Takara's was so much better. Unfortunately Hasbro's version could be picked up at Walmart back in the day for $26.99 whereas Takara's version after shipping and import fees would likely set you back more than double that. Simple economics drove my decision to pick up the American deco.


As I mentioned earlier, I have picked out all the remaining figures that will be going up for sale as a result of this Lenten journey. My desire is to have all the auctions completing at the same time the season ends so I will be listing all remaining toys on eBay tomorrow - even the ones that won't be revealed on this blog until late next week. I'll post the links to the auctions in Monday's post and you can follow along to see how much money I've raised. To this date, after shipping charges and eBay fees I've raised just about $160 for Impact Ministries. I hope that by the end of Lent I will have eclipsed the $300 mark.


See you at church tomorrow and on the blog on Monday.

Chris