{"id":657,"date":"2011-07-25T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T12:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/goodnews\/?p=657"},"modified":"2011-07-25T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T13:17:57","slug":"nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p>Before Saturday night\u2019s Nationwide Federated Auto Parts 300, Pastor Joe Nelms of\u00a0Nashville&#8217;s\u00a0Family Baptist Church was asked to pray. And pray, he did!<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best prayer EVER!  Pastor Joe Nelms - Nascar Nationwide - Nashville, TN\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J74y88YuSJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Before the NASCAR crowd at Nashville Superspeedway Nelms notes that God tells us to be thankful\u00a0for all things &#8212; and then\u00a0goes on to\u00a0thank the\u00a0Almighty for \u201cthese mighty machines that you brought before us. Thank you for the Dodges and Toyotas. Thank you for the Fords and most of all we thank you for Roush and Yates partnering to give us the power we see before us tonight. Thank you for GM Performance Technology and R07 engines. Thank you for Sunoco racing fuel and Goodyear tires that bring performance and power to the track. Lord, I want to thank you for my smokin\u2019 hot wife \u2026\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The respectful crowd begins to suspect something is up about the time he starts thanking God for Sonoco racing fuel. Drivers\u00a0can be seen looking up and chuckling. But the line about his smokin\u2019 hot wife\u00a0&#8212; a line from the movie \u201cTalladega Nights\u2019\u2019 brings the house down. The crowd roars &#8212; but with the cadence of a Southern preacher, Nelm&#8217;s voice rises in magnitude as he continues past &#8220;for my smokin\u2019 hot wife tonight, Lisa,&#8221; and includes his kids:\u00a0&#8220;and my two children, Eli and Emma, or as we like to call them, \u2018The Little E\u2019s.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most unforgettable line of the prayer comes when Nelms quotes NASCAR Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip at the end of his prayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Jesus\u2019 name, Boogity Boogity Boogity, amen,\u201d Nelms proclaims.<\/p>\n<p>Race winner Carl Edwards appreciated the humor that came with Nelms\u2019 prayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI turned to Jack (Roush) after that. I said, \u2018If anything happens, I want him to be at my funeral.\u2019 That was one of the best invocations I have ever heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Saturday night\u2019s Nationwide Federated Auto Parts 300, Pastor Joe Nelms of\u00a0Nashville&#8217;s\u00a0Family Baptist Church was asked to pray. And pray, he did! Before the NASCAR crowd at Nashville Superspeedway Nelms notes that God tells us to be thankful\u00a0for all things &#8212; and then\u00a0goes on to\u00a0thank the\u00a0Almighty for \u201cthese mighty machines that you brought before us.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,77],"tags":[359,191,193,192,190],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-viral-heroes","tag-nascar","tag-nashville-family-baptist-church","tag-nashville-speedway","tag-nationwide-federated-auto-parts-300","tag-pastor-joe-nelms"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation! - Good News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation! - Good News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Before Saturday night\u2019s Nationwide Federated Auto Parts 300, Pastor Joe Nelms of\u00a0Nashville&#8217;s\u00a0Family Baptist Church was asked to pray. And pray, he did! Before the NASCAR crowd at Nashville Superspeedway Nelms notes that God tells us to be thankful\u00a0for all things &#8212; and then\u00a0goes on to\u00a0thank the\u00a0Almighty for \u201cthese mighty machines that you brought before us.&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Good News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-07-25T12:55:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-07-25T13:17:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation! - Good News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation! - Good News","og_description":"Before Saturday night\u2019s Nationwide Federated Auto Parts 300, Pastor Joe Nelms of\u00a0Nashville&#8217;s\u00a0Family Baptist Church was asked to pray. And pray, he did! Before the NASCAR crowd at Nashville Superspeedway Nelms notes that God tells us to be thankful\u00a0for all things &#8212; and then\u00a0goes on to\u00a0thank the\u00a0Almighty for \u201cthese mighty machines that you brought before us.&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html","og_site_name":"Good News","article_published_time":"2011-07-25T12:55:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-07-25T13:17:57+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html","name":"NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation! - Good News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-07-25T12:55:27+00:00","dateModified":"2011-07-25T13:17:57+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/2011\/07\/nascar-pastor-leaves-little-out-of-this-pre-race-invocation.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NASCAR pastor leaves little out of this pre-race invocation!"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/","name":"Good News","description":"Good News - What&#039;s REALLY happening in the world!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/author"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}