In a few weeks, we’ll be launching a new blog. This week I’m meeting with the wicked talented team at Dave Ramsey to discuss what features/technologies/stuff we should include on it. And since I want it to be a blog that serves you, I thought I’d just ask:

What would you love in a blog?

The content is going to be about pursuing your dreams, writing, social media and any other subject of life that doesn’t fit within the confines of “Stuff Christians Like.”

But what’s something you love on other blogs that we should do? What’s a technology or feature that’s important to you? What’s a blog you’re reading right now you think is cool?

What is your favorite blog?

Sometimes, if I am reading the Bible too quickly, I have a Wile E. Coyote moment. Often when chasing the Road Runner, Wile E. would get so focused on what he was doing that he would run 15 feet off a cliff without realizing it. Then he would pause in mid air, look at the camera, then at his feet and plummet.

I feel that way sometimes while reading the Bible. I’ll get in a rhythm and start making progress. I’ll be cruising through Genesis and Exodus, moving along at a good clip, flying by the material, until out of nowhere I’ll pause, mid thought and say, “Wait, what???”

I’ll go back a few verses and realize that I breezed past something outrageous that at first glance I took as commonplace. Recognizing my error I’ll push pause, reread the verse and then fall off a theological cliff much like Wile E.

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The Super Bowl is one of those “events” where I assume everyone is at an amazing party except for me. The closer we get to the game the more I suspect that somewhere, people will be having the kind of party that really only exists in stock photography. You know the scene: Popcorn bowl in mid air, people jumping off the couch in excitement, guys high fiving or chest bumping, adorable golden retriever barking in excitement.

That’s what I think when I watch it from my couch. Where are our banners or 37 layer dips and college buddies named “Sully” that I should be watching this thing with? Have you ever thought that before? Probably not. I am weird.

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A few weeks ago, I said I was going to “bring dinner back.” I challenged me and you and all of us, to be deliberate about eating dinner with our families. I wrote a post about it on the E-Mealz blog and included the one thing I learned in the first week. I also had a pretty good record. Think you beat me? Come see in the post and add a comment to let me know how you did. Click here to read the post.

Today’s short Saturday question is simple. What are you praying about?

What’s something kicking around in your head or heart right now?

I try to do this post once a season. Why? Because this site is read in 97% of the countries in the world and the readers of SCL have a steady stream of prayer needs and a huge willingness to pray for each other.

So what is something you’d love some prayer about today?

(Curtis Honeycutt is so old school SCL that I think he was reading it before I even started writing it. I would just think thoughts about Christian satire and in Indianapolis he would would quietly laugh. But if you’ve read the site for a while to than you know he is a master at the guest post. Here’s another great one that I loved. Enjoy!)

Bible Cozies

By Curtis Honeycutt

See what I just did? I relevanted Bible covers by calling them Bible cozies, and that’s what I’m all about. A cozy is sometimes known as a warm feeling you get when you see a kitten lick a puppy’s nose, but it’s also a foam device used to keep beverages cold. And, no, they’re not called “coozies”. I’m pretty sure a coozy is one of Thomas Edison’s failed patents, which was his idea to combine two of his favorite things: kazoos and snickerdoodle cookies.

For the kids out there who don’t know what Bible cozies are, they’re like phone cases for your Bible, which your parents read in book form. For those of you who don’t know what books are—books are those things people used to check out at libraries—before libraries became free Blockbusters.

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You are not as prideful as me.

I know that by thinking you’re more prideful than me, you think you’ve just become more prideful than me, but I assure you that what you think is not the case. (That sentence felt like it was from the Matrix and should have involved a rabbit and a red pill.)

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(This post and the R word post were the two most popular posts from 2010. With a book deadline for me this week, I thought I’d push pause on writing a new Serious Wednesday and share the soft X again today. If you missed it the first time, I hope you like it. If you saw it the first time, I hope it still starts a conversation. Fresh SCL will return tomorrow.)

The soft X.

I cried in the Chicago Airport.

And these were not tough guy, lumberjack, I just punched a mountain lion in the face with my bare fist kind of tears. These were sad and tired and give up tears.

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Lil’ Wayne, you rapscallion!

Out on bail, fresh out of jail, wait, that’s Tupac. Those were his words. But it was Lil Wayne’s words that knocked me over recently.

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