I watched part of the video you linked to.  The internet where I’m at in India is weak so I didn’t make it through the whole thing, but I think I got a lot of the gist.  I wouldn’t be surprised if John Acuff’s written a lot of good material (I’m not familiar with him, though I’m a reader), but I think there is reason to question his discernment.  In explaining his offensive title that sandwiches God’s holy name between “booty”, he explains that it’s drawn from listening to his favorite radio station in Atlanta where they’ll sandwich an inspirational moment between two sexually explicit songs.  He doesn’t like that they put spiritual things in there.  Understandable.  But what’s not understandable is that this is his FAVORITE radio station.  His problem was not so much that they play this wicked music, but that they put God next to it.  Both are wrong.  I’m not saying that we should expect the hip hop and r &b stations that play explicit songs to be Biblical, I’m saying that we shouldn’t savor it as our favorite station, if we should listen to at at all.

It might be different if Michael’s posted video was simply an inspirational story of an overcoming athlete.  But this video is clearly trying to tell us something: that we, in and of ourselves, are powerful beyond measure.  This is at least as dangerous, if not more so, than the message of an sexually explicit rap song.  Satan fell as he wanted to be worshiped as the only one who is truly powerful beyond measure: God!  Christ was crucifed because the Jews were angry that He did claim to be God.  Chris was criticized for saying that He was God, and man is criticized when he says that we are not gods (not saying that you’re expressly doing this).  How backward is that?   Satan coerced Eve by telling her that she would be as gods (although he
was speaking of knowledge rather than physical power) if she took the
fruit, and he did this subtly. This video tells us that we are as gods, and it does this “inspiration-ally”, with music, with mud, with muscle.

Nebuchadnezzar set himself up as a god, and he then he was helped to the Old Countryside Buffet as a beastified, humbled, “powerful beyond measure” human.  When Herod did not give God the glory, the angel of the Lord immediately smote him, he was eaten of worms, and he gave up the ghost.  Ali set himself up as a “powerful beyond measure” type, and now he is not even powerful enough to stop shaking. 

I’m not saying that we can’t be inspired by secular things.  We can draw creative ambition from a Steve Jobs, perseverance and determination from a Lance Armstrong, etc., but they need to be qualified if they are offered as inspirational material to Christians.  It wouldn’t have taken Michale too long to write something like: 

I found this video to be really inspiring!  In our human strength, we are not “powerful beyond measure”.  But as Christians, we have been made one with the omnipotent Son of God!  We can run, we can endure, we can persevere, through His power!  And men do it for a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Or if that would take too long: 

This video inspired me; just watch out for the humanism.  We must rely upon God for all power!

Personally, I still don’t know if I would post the video (at least without even more criticism), but a qualifier like those above would have at least helped. 

All this being said, thanks to Michael for his work on an often helpful blog.