(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Scott Higa.  You can check out his blog here and follow him on Twitter.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

My 3 Excuses for not watching The Bible on the History Channel

I have a confession to make.

I didn’t watch The Bible on the History Channel.

There, I feel better. My load is definitely easier, and my burden is much lighter.

I’m not opposed to Christian programming. I endured The Passion of the Christ and shared how it made me feel with my small group. I have watched numerous Veggie Tales movies and have even sung “The Hairbrush Song” at the top of my lungs. I even sat through Psalty, the singing praise book, which scarred me more than Mel Gibson ever could.

I’m not opposed to watching The Bible, but here are some reasons why I couldn’t:

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(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Pam Lyon.  You can check out her blog here.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

Global Warming:

Are we doing it? Is God doing it?

At the end of the day, I think there is one thing we can all agree on:

I don’t want to drive a Prius to save the world because it is shaped like a suppository.

Also, if there is a rapture and I’m left behind, I don’t want to be in a smart car when that guy’s empty Hummer crashes into me.

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(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Kristin Cummings.  You can check out her blog here.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

Bragging about our lack of dating experience

When I was 22, I remember wondering if turning 30 and having ‘never been kissed’ was still considered cute.

I was seriously worried about it because, at least in my mind, I was well on my way there. Sweet 16 and kiss-less was cute. Maybe even being a college student and saving that smooch for someone special was still sweet. But I was a working college graduate and still a member of the exclusive ‘never been kissed’ club.

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(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Kate Hall.  You can check out her blog here and you can follow her on Twitter.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

The Up-Sell Guy at the Christian Bookstore

Have you ever run into the “Up-Sell Guy” at a Christian bookstore?

I ran in to my local Christian Bookstore the other day to buy a greeting card. Here’s how my time at the cash register went:

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(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Chad Nelson.  You can check out his blog or follow him on Twitter.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

“YeshuaTube”

I got some great insight into our culture the other day from my young buddy and radio co-host Ford Garner.  We were discussing the prospect of Jesus among us in 2013 and, since he is 19 and connected, I trust his judgment on all things pop culture.

Brief editorial interlude: Ford is a licensed minister, former Homecoming King, Chamber of Commerce “Student of the Year,” in-demand evangelist, college student, middle school youth leader, radio host and has 2000+ Facebook friends. Again, he is 19. The Facebook thing is probably impressive (I’m 42 so no real grasp of the significance), but I am pretty sure my accolades at 19 began and ended with “Most Likely to Waste Money.”   Mission accomplished, Mom.

Anyway, we looked around at society and, more specifically, church culture. In fact, we discussed an entire YouTube channel devoted to such things for future generations to see how Christ fit in our lives in 2013. Welcome to YeshuaTube (we like to keep it real). Keep Reading —›

(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Peter McMurray.  You can check out his blog here.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

Christian put-down lines

Valentine’s Day came around last month and it started me thinking. If there is one thing we Christians don’t like, it is singleness – the one spiritual gift that should come with a receipt so you can exchange it for something that suits you better. And what worse time to be single than Valentine’s Day, when all good Christian couples should be texting, tweeting and instagraming verse from 1 Corinthians 13 to each other (so helpful of Paul to split it into short, tweet-friendly sentences – restricting himself to under 140 characters way before Twitter made it mainstream, so hipster…)

Which is why as a young single Christian guy, I was afraid. The 14^th was rapidly approaching and I had no-one to DTR with. But then I found a SCL post of Christian pick-up lines. Armed with these lines, what could possibly go wrong? It was time for me to put the stud back into Bible study.

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(It’s guest post Friday!  Here’s one from Tim Fall.  You can check out his blog here.  If you want to write a guest post for SCL, here’s how!)

Over-spiritualizing Self-Deprecation

Christians have perfected the tortuous over-spiritualizing of self-deprecation. You see it in ministry all the time. Someone tries to pay a sincere compliment to another Christian and gets smacked down faster than a flyweight amateur boxer at a heavyweight MMA title match. The person trying to be an encourager leaves the conversation deflated, and the person who deflected the encouragement with unnecessary and inappropriate self-deprecation gets to feel spiritually superior for having done so.

But here’s how I’d love to see the conversation go sometime:

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