A crime-fighting cowboy? Sounds like a movie, doesn't it? The small Oregon town of Eagle Point recently learned that such a person does actually exist.

Robert Borba, 28 years old, "is one of the last of a kind; [a] real honest-to-goodness, cow roping cowboy," according to CBS News. This summer, however, Borba found himself roping more than just cows. He was in a Walmart parking lot—with his horse in tow—when he heard a woman screaming that her bike had been stolen. "All of a sudden this guy goes whizzing by me on a bicycle," Borba explained.

What did Borba do? "He saddled up to save the day, armed with little more than a lasso." (Yes, that's right—a lasso.)

He then managed to use that lasso to rope the thief, "just like [he] would a steer." When police arrived, Borba told them, "Man, you guys ought to pick up a rope and throw that gun away. You might have better luck with it."

Potential Preaching Angles: A transition from guns to lassoes would be an extreme one, indeed—but are there certain areas in your life and in your ministry where one tool should perhaps be replaced with another—where an aggressive, intensive approach could be gentler (or vice versa)?