I have a confession. And it is a little embarrassing.

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I’ve still never seen a whole episode of Glee. Not because I don’t like the show, but more that I’m waiting for them to do an Emilio Estevez themed episode. I feel like 87% of all celebrities have been on that show at this point. But folks love that show. Or they hate it, it’s definitely one of those. Here is the number #9 most popular post on Stuff Christians Like from 2010.

Loving or Hating Glee.

As the nights turn cold and the days grow short, I can’t help but think of one thing. As leaves burst with color and wood fire places light across the Tennessee hills I find myself in, there is one thought that I can’t shake. As the season and sunsets turn into a kind of Thomas Kinkade/Yankee Candle mashup worthy of Double Rainbow strength awe and wonder, one thought is bursting across the landscape of my heart and soul …

It’s almost time to break out Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas album.

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One of my goals this year is to finish at least one book a month. Notice that I did not say “read.” I often read one or two chapters of a book and quit. This happens because I get bored, distracted by a different book, it’s a 20 page idea that got stretched into 240 pages, I look up something on my iPhone and never come back or I end up thinking about building a fort instead. I tend to have the attention span of a pomeranian who has drunk the contents of a hummingbird feeder.

This year is going to be different. This year, I’m finishing books.

So what are you reading right now that you’d recommend is “worth finishing?”

And what makes a book worth finishing? Non-fiction or fiction?

Recently, I saw Tony Morgan do a great countdown of his top ten posts of the year. I loved that idea. And it was a really full year at SCL. We published two books, raised more than $30,000 in 24 hours for malaria nets (update on project next week!), and gave away a 66 pound box of awesome. (Big thank you to sponsors like Samaritan’s Purse, Scorely and many others.)

It seemed like a shame to not pick out the ten best posts after going from #680 to #927.

So I went through the last year using a potpourri of traffic numbers, number of comments and general sense of “that was fun” to pick out the top ten. Some you might have seen, some you might have missed. Here is post #10 from 2010. (I’ll post one each day, in addition to new SCL.)

#10 –  Reacting to Anne Rice

Christian blogging law requires that you write a post about what world famous author Anne Rice recently said about Christianity.

I wasn’t going to, but Cornelius, the white dove who brings me official Christian blogging rules, made it pretty clear I had little choice.

So what did Anne Rice, who wrote about vampires long before it was all twilighty and cool, say? Here is what she posted on Facebook:

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(I’m doing a chronological read through the Bible plan right now and we’re in Job. So when I got this guest post from John Crist, it felt like perfect timing. Someday I hope to share the stage with this guy. Why? So I can take notes and learn. He’s a hilarious writer, a tremendous guest poster as exhibited last month and a great comedian. Hope you dig the post as much as I did!)

It’s hard to meet girls in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

If New York City is the City That Never Sleeps, Colorado Springs is the city that gets eight hours of sleep on a tempurpedic mattress…and a pillow with extra lumbar support.

So when you do find a girl in church that’s everything you’ve ever dreamed of, you gotta make a good first impression. That’s why I lead with the perfect question:

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Last night, my 7-year-old yelled something from her bed that I’ve never heard before.

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Whether it’s a spiritual attack, the creative stress of writing a book, a severe lycopene deficiency or a potpourri of all three, lately I’ve been having a hard time sleeping.

I’d be no means say I’m struggling with insomnia, but the last week has been a difficult one. Reflecting on it, I think there are a few contributing factors:

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I don’t mean to start an argument, but it’s pretty clear that God would use an iPhone and not a Blackberry. That is of course if he didn’t choose angels, bushes or donkeys, methods he relied on in the Bible. And his call would never get dropped, even if he was at the Catalyst Conference and 13,000 other people were trying to tweet at the same exact time.

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Today, gyms across the world will be full. Folks with new workout clothes and resolutions that have not yet broken will be climbing about strange looking gym equipment like spider monkeys with the fervor January always ushers in. (more…)

A few weeks ago I did a blog promotion with my new book “Gazelles, Baby Steps and 37 Other Things Dave Ramsey Taught Me About Debt.” If you bought the book on a certain day, I offered to do a review of your blog. About 350 folks took me up on that, which is awesome. Now that Christmas is over and we can all focus on blogs, I’m beginning to go through the reviews. Over the next two months, if you participated, I will review your blog and email you a couple of ideas on things you could do to grow it.

We might do something like this again when the book hits Amazon and possibly some retail stores so folks outside the country can participate. But for the meantime, thank you for supporting the book and expect an email from me!