I’m thankful that I live a world where firefighters, police officers and emergency workers run into burning buildings, instead of away from them.

A blog post is a small, poorly dimensioned place to express gratitude, but thank you to the countless lives who reacted so bravely on this date.

Praying for the scores of people who were impacted by September 11.

Jon

(Lyndsay Rush is hilarious. Her last guest post blew up and I think this one is even better. She shares some great ways to identify a potential Christian when it comes to dating. (Unless of course, you feel called to date hot, non-Christians and win them over for the Lord with your dates.) I’m a big fan of Lyndsay. Enjoy!)

“I feel very blessed…” said our waiter as he cleared away our empty appetizer plates. He was responding to one of the many questions we had asked him throughout the night as we flirtatiously tried to determine if he was single and–even more important–a Christian.

I couldn’t tell you what he said after that because with one distinct word he had told us all we needed to know. Let’s just say he had us at ‘blessed.’

You may be rolling your eyes at this ridiculous assumption but the chances are you know exactly what I am talking about. Truth is, when you are a single Christian person in your 20s or 30s, this amateur detective work comes with the territory.

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Today’s post was about that friend who sends you links to Internet videos weeks after everyone on the planet has already seen the video.

If you read it, then allow me to say, “You’ve probably already seen this.”

But if you haven’t, prepare to see one of my favorite stop motion videos ever. Check it out after the jump.

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One of the weirdest Internet trends right now is celebrities who are joining Twitter after denigrating it.

For months they slammed the medium, making fun of it and calling it useless. Then, out of nowhere, they join and announce this momentous event with a press release. They then proceed to talk about Twitter as if they invented it. They’re like that friend who discovers Lost on DVD and then tries to explain to you what the hatch is three years after the show went off the air.

I’m talking about my favorite college dropout right now and predicting that in a few months, Jay-Z will be doing the same thing. Although I can’t hate on Jay-Z because his line, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man,” is one of the greatest rap lines ever written. He communicated more with a comma than most rappers do with a whole song.

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When I was in the eighth grade, a room full of people laughed at me when they saw me wearing underwear.

Outfitted in what I can only assume were some tighty whiteys from Marshall’s, all 93 pounds of my awkwardness was on a weigh in scale before a wrestling match. I felt exposed and dumb in that moment, being forced to stand up there in front of both teams. And my worst fears were confirmed when the other team burst into laughter as I stood up to have my weight taken.

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Last Friday, I found myself engaged in an epic struggle with Stephen Hawking. The Professor Moriarty to my Sherlock Holmes, the Cobra Kai to my Karate Kid, Hawking and I were at odds, but not for the reason you might imagine.

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I’m in Atlanta trying to sell our house. (I am about 15 minutes away from becoming one of those dancing sign wavers that sub shops hire.)

I’ll be back tomorrow and so will Stuff Christians Like.

Have a great Labor Day! (International folks, I hope your Monday is delightful too.)

I just changed jobs last month. I changed states too.

I’m now a writer/speaker for Dave Ramsey. I live in Franklin, Tennessee. (Which is like Nashville’s older, cooler brother).

But how about you? What do you do for a living and where do you do it?

No pressure, I’m just curious and thought I would ask a short Saturday question.

So, what do you do and where do you call home?

Based on the number of comments, here are the 5 most popular posts on Stuff Christians Like from August.

1. Reacting to Anne Rice.

2. Sex.

3. Finding a New Church

4. Twitter

5. Having a “Life Verse”

If you’ve never experienced a handball choir, then you my friend are missing out on some white gloved awesomeness. Growing up in Massachusetts, I never saw a handbell choir. (Do they have them out West? Is this only a Southern thing?) But when I went to Samford University for college I was enthralled. It just seems like a pretty arbitrary instrument to make a choir from. Why not a triangle choir or a tambourine choir? How did we settle on handbells? (Please insert your own cow bell joke.) Today, with a fabulous guest post from Amanda, we all get a lesson in the wonder that is the handbell, enjoy!

THE 7 PEOPLE EVERY HANDBELL CHOIR NEEDS:

1. The Prima Donna

She’s is listed first because she’s always listed first. She’s better 
than you, and you both know it. She’s not happy unless she has at
 least two bells in each hand, and when members of your choir miss a
 rehearsal, she’s known to commandeer their bells and play them in
 conjunction with her own. She’s like the monkey grinder street musician that can play 47 instruments at once. She could probably play the entire piece by
 herself and doesn’t really need you, but one step at a time. She can’t
 just have a coup d’etat and overthrow the Director….at least not yet.

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