Across the nation, with Valentine’s Day quickly approaching, churches are planning singles events. A potpourri of awesomeness wrapped in a tortilla shell of awkwardness, these events are almost too wondrous to behold. Though it’s been a few years I can still recall my last one.

I got stuck in the closet. Unlike R. Kelly, I was just trying to get my coat. Suddenly, a guy from another church blocked the doorway, effectively preventing me from leaving. I could still hear “safe enough for church” slow dance music playing in the background. Things looked dire, but fortunately, much like Kim Possible, I have a grab bag of karate moves and was able to back flip my way out of there.

But what about you, what happens if you’re single and you get stuck at an awkward singles event? How do you avoid going one? How do you recognize what might be awkward? Just look for the following signs:

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Although I blog a lot, I don’t consider myself a blog expert. Folks like Michael Hyatt and Seth Godin are blog experts. But sometimes people do ask about how I write this site so I thought it might be good to share a little about the steps I go through.

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“Uh oh,” my friend said the other night at the end of our men’s group, “I don’t think I should share my prayer request anymore.”

Why did he say this? Simple, he didn’t have a “big prayer request.”

After hearing everyone’s very serious, very heartfelt prayer requests, his suddenly felt small and insignificant. He didn’t want to say it out loud. He was struck with a bought of prayer envy or “prenvy.” And you hate to see that kind of thing strike a kid so young. It’s a shame, a dang shame.

So to help him, and others out there, I thought it would be a good idea to review some ways to prevent feeling like your prayer request isn’t “big enough.”

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On Saturday, February 20th, starting at 7AM eastern time, we are going to do a 24 hour day of prayer on Stuff Christians Like.

If you’ve got a prayer request that you want to tell thousands of people about from dozens of countries around the world, please leave a comment.

If you want to pray, please comment “I’ll take 7-8PM.” Then during that hour, I’d love if you could come on the site, respond to any comments and pray for the people who have left prayer requests.

So the question is, can we pray for you? How so?

I will never get tired of the second kid in this video, the one with the orange shirt. Insane.

This is not your traditional guest post. In fact, Randall, the man behind the magic, didn’t even submit a single word. But what he did do, what he did create is brilliant. And I think you’re going to love it.

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This Sunday, former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow will be in a Super Bowl commercial. The commercial is for Focus on the Family and is centered on pro life issues. I wasn’t going to mention it, because I’ve already written about Tebow in the past, but then I kept seeing chatter about this commercial everywhere.

Online, on the radio, on TV, people are riled up about it. I think I have a different opinion on the whole matter:

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“Promise me if you go on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you’ll take me so I can sit in the audience.”

This is my father’s only request when it comes to the book release of Stuff Christians Like. I’ve never been on television. Two people attended the only meet and greet I’ve held. I’ve been assured by one of the biggest publishers in the world that Christian humor books simply do not sell. But I think that parents are required by DNA to hope. To believe that anything is possible if not down right probable.

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We’re less than 2 months away from the release of the Stuff Christians Like book. I thought it might be fun to tell you the first sentence of the book since a lot of weight comes from the opening. Here is how the Stuff Christians Like book opens:

“If you buy this book, God will make you rich.”

That is literally the very first line of the book. And then it gets kind of crazy from there. (Click here to order the book for only $8.76 from Amazon or click here to order from Barnes & Noble or get an autographed copy here. )

There’s actually a review up already from someone that got an early copy. It’s a great review and I appreciate the way he broke it down. His one edit of the book was that he wished there were more serious Wednesday type posts. I completely get that but at the same time felt like putting 7 serious essays in the book was the most that a satirical vehicle could take.

And to be honest with you, right now I am pitching a second book to publishers called “Only Wednesday,” which is a brand new collection of Serious Wednesday posts.

Anyway, check out the review. He’s got some great info in there.

Click here to read the review

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