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By now, we've all seen the TV ads for Second Baptist Church's legion services at Christmas, in which Pastor Ed Young slyly promises that there will be snow for all the children afterwards. Whether this is just at the main Woodway campus or at all five campuses was not disclosed in the slightly creepy commercial. But this makes Houstonist wonder: what other products and enticements should megachurches begin offering to encourage wayward Christians (and their pocketbooks) to attend their services? Leave your suggestions in the comments section below.

Houston makes it into the national news with the expected frequency of the fourth-largest city in the United States. Too often it's for terrible things -- like a mother drowning her children or a spurned wife running down her husband in a hotel parking lot or a man shooting burglars at his neighbor's house -- but sometimes it's for downright silly things, too.