A few weeks ago I took each of my daughters on a “Daddy-Daughter Date Night.” I gave them each the chance to pick the destination. They both picked Chuck-e-Cheese. On Saturday night I went to Chuck-e-Cheese with my five year old McRae. On Sunday night, my seven year old L.E.

By the second night within the lair of Mr. Cheese, I started to notice something. Chuck-e-Cheese is like a casino for kids.

(more…)

I’ve long told you that I am street and/or hip hop. (Chances are, using “and/or” instantly disqualifies you from being either, but I’m not positive.)

I’ve bragged about my breakdancing skills, ability to dunk (8 foot hoop) and affection for Young MC lyrics. You’ve doubted. Well doubt no longer my friend, I’ve just been officially recognized by the “Urban Dictionary.”

A friend recently pointed out that the SCL term “Jesus Juke” was now officially part of the Urban Dictionary online. Here’s how they defined it:

(more…)

(John Crist is quickly becoming one of my favorite guest authors on Stuff Christians Like. In the last six months he’s written some hilarious guest posts and the live comedy he performs is brilliant too. Here today with a perfect addition to SCL is John’s new post. Enjoy!)

Stuff Christians (guys) Like: Doing Crazy Things With the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

Is it just me, or does every guy know that the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue comes out in February, circa Valentines Day.

Its just me? Ok…never mind. (this is awkward…)

But seriously, I polled some of my Christian guy friends, all with varying levels of relational statii (that’s the plural of status), and they all had different reactions to the swimsuit issue. P.S. I saw the cover in a gas station this morning and there seems to be less and less swimsuits involved every year. The cover model’s name this year is Lusty McLusterson. Weird. Anyway, here’s what my friends said when I brought it up:

(more…)

For the last 10 years, I’ve attended modern churches. And by modern, I don’t mean missional or postmodern or millennial focused or emergent or a word that hasn’t even been invented yet but your friends who liked Mumford & Sons before you are already using. I just mean the churches I’ve attended lately have more lasers than stained glass windows. But recently I started taking a class at an old school church in Franklin, Tennessee.

The other night my wife and I got lost in the belly of it. During our journey into the depths we stumbled upon something that the North Point Community Church and Cross Point Church did not have. (I apparently only attend churches with the word “point” in their title.)

What did we find?

(more…)

I once went to counseling to talk about my Google Analytics.

I’m not sure if I’m the first person to talk to a professional counselor about web traffic, but the whole thing was pretty ridiculous.

(more…)

Recently I started meeting with a group of guys for breakfast. I did a really poor job of investing in friendships in Atlanta and I’ve committed to being better about that in Franklin. Since we’re all Christians, when it came time to decide where we’d meet, that seemed like a no brainer, Chick-fil-A. (Or what I call it, “Chicken Church.”)

But the other day, while meeting there, I was reminded of something that I had first noticed in Atlanta. We weren’t the only guys there getting together to talk about God. As I looked around, it was like a youth group van had broken down in the parking lot. (Something youth group vans love to do.) Granted, my friend’s mom says that buying Chick-fil-A almost feels like tithing, but I still thought it was funny that out of every early morning option for breakfast we’d all congregated there like it was the only open water hole on the Savannah.

Looking around, I realized there are 3 tips you need to know about the early morning experience at Chick-fil-A:

(more…)

I need to apologize to every parent I sat next to in church when I was in college. I unfortunately didn’t go that often in college, so the list is short, but I still need to make amends. Why?

I ran into the college version of me a few weeks ago at church.

(more…)

In less than two weeks, I’ll be speaking at Catalyst West Coast. Come hang out with me on Wednesday, March 2. I’m going to be sharing some ideas from my new book about how to turn a dream into a job and a job into a dream. It’s at Mariner’s Church in Irvine, California. It always sells out and is going to be a blast. Make sure you stop by my lab on Wednesday from 2:45 – 3:30PM. There will side hugs, Jesus Jukes and ideas about surviving the tension between a day job and a daydream. (In that order)

Sign up for the labs and the main session which will include great stuff from folks like Dave Ramsey, Andy Stanley, Matt Chandler and many others!

Click here for more info.

Last weekend, when I got the coffee out and started making it, I thought to myself, “This smells like my quiet time.” (Please insert your own “Smells like teen spirit,” Nirvana joke.)

For years, whenever I’ve had a morning quiet time, I’ve done it while drinking a cup of coffee. Now, the two feel intrinsically linked. Not that I can’t spend time reading the Bible without coffee, but even just the smell of it triggers the idea of quiet time in my head. Which made me curious, what are the things in your life that have become associated with your Bible study, or your personal worship or your quiet time?

Is it a place? The beach or a mountain vista?

Is it an album? Some band you always listened to before you started your quiet time?

Is it coffee or tea?

What is your version of coffee during your quiet time?

(Tyler Stanton is one of the funniest people I know. His blog is hilarious, his book is hilarious, his videos are hilarious as well. I’m sure he’s not funny sometimes during the day, like at the grocery store or while pumping gas, but I can’t verify that. Here is a great guest post from Tyler!)

Purchase Justification

No one is better at feeling guilty for having nice things than us Christians. Now, of course, this guilt doesn’t actually stop us from buying the nice things. It just causes us have a justifiable response on hand in case someone ever broaches the subject.

Here are a few of the more common ways we justify questionable purchases:

(more…)