Jon Acuff's Blog, page 185

Feeling slightly embarrassed for male singers who don't play instruments.

Good service so far. Only felt a modicum of judgment from the people next to me who don't know I direct deposit my tithe, no one's asked to borrow my pen and I'm pretty sure I'm going to win the "please turn to" Bible verse race. All in all, pretty good day and here comes a minister to preach. Wait a second. No, this can't be right, he's not the preacher, he's …

a male singer without an instrument?

Oh how embarrassing for him and also slightly for me as well. He looks so lonely up there with...

Believing the 2-Star Reviews too often.

Stuff Christians Like "reads like it was cobbled together in about a weekend." That's one of the quotes from a 2 star review someone gave me on Amazon.

Most of the reviews have been great. There are 91 "5 Star" reviews. The press has been extremely kind. Andy Stanley said he "can't put it down" and Craig Groeschel gave it a great review too.

But if you're a writer, an artist, a mom, an accountant or just a human, you know that the negative reviews tend to be the ones you focus on. And...

Caffeine.

I stand by my Twitter statement that if you're going to wear a Tapout ultimate fighting t-shirt you should have to wrestle and pin the cashier before you are allowed to buy it.

And the cashier can't look like me in the eighth grade when at a wrestling weigh in I climbed up on the scale in my tighty whiteys and the other team burst into laughter. These are the kind of things I think about when I tweet, but recently I pulled back on writing something I wanted to say. And it started with being...

Beth Moore and Jenny.

Last week, my hott with two t's wife, Jenny, wrote a post about Beth Moore.

It was well received and I can't thank you enough for your kindness. I'm happy to let you know that Beth loved it and will be connecting with Jenny at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta. She was incredibly gracious with her response and Jenny is excited although Jenny's Mom is trying to pretend she has some legitimate need to tag along.

Furthermore, Jenny is going to start her own blog. We're working on it together...

The Justin Bieber Effect.

Is you listen closely, you can hear moms all over the country shrieking in horror as they listen to a Ludacris CD they bought because "he seemed like such a nice young man on that Justin Bieber song."

My guess is that upon unwrapping the Luda CD they where appalled that in the song "My chick bad" he rhymes about stripper poles and the variety of activities that occur in establishments that happen to have those structural elements. It's a shame really because those moms fell for what I call...

Mom Justice.

When she was very pregnant with our first daughter, my wife got hit by a taxi driver in Boston.

They both got out to look at the damage to our car. The taxi driver stood in the road for a second and then sprinted back to his car and sped away. My wife, in what I like to imagine involved a Dukes of Hazzard hood slide, jumped back into her car. Through the streets of Boston she chased him down, getting his license plate number and eventually calling the police. The cab company had already...

5 free autographed books from Pete Wilson

I am a big Pete Wilson fan. He's a very honest, talented pastor who has a big heart for the people he serves in Nashville. Plus, he was the first pastor who ever let me speak at his church. He took a shot on a plucky kid with a unibrow. And now, he's got a new book.

I've been reading Plan B for a while now and really enjoy it. The premise is one that I think is really important – what do you do when life doesn't go the way you planned? What do you do when it feels like God doesn't show up?

I...

Man on Fire.

In November, I'm speaking at the National Outreach Convention in San Diego. The topic I'm covering is the intersection of faith and film. The movie I'll be focusing on is "Man on Fire." Turn back if you don't want the end spoiled, but here is something I've written about it before and a video clip of the final scene which to me is a powerful reflection of the Christ story.

In Man on Fire, Denzel Washington plays the role of Creasy, an alcoholic black ops military man in Mexico City serving as ...

Trying to explain to men why you love Beth Moore so much.

(This is the very first guest post from my wife, Jenny. Who is hott and funny and wicked smart. Please know it was hard for me not to introduce her by quoting Ludacris and simply saying, "My chick bad." Without further ado.)

Jon and I only really have two types of arguments in our house.

The first concerns certain subjects he refuses to learn about. Folding and hanging pants for instance. He refuses to put that information in his head. Many, many times I have tried to teach him how to follow a ...

It's coming …

Sunday! A day so many people get ready for. Including the North Point Media team, who made what I think is a really hilarious movie trailer about what happens every Sunday morning. Check it out after the jump.

"Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.