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Win 20 copies of the Stuff Christians Like book or 20 subscriptions to Relevant Magazine.

I grew up in Hudson, Massachusetts. When it comes to basketball, I am a fan of the Boston Celtics. Cameron Strang, the publisher of Relevant Magazine, is an Orlando Magic fan. As fate would have it, both teams made it to the Eastern Conference finals. So what did Cameron and I decide to do about that?

Simple, if the Orlando Magic win the series, I will donate a box of 20 autographed Stuff Christians Like books to Cameron to give away to readers of Relevant Magazine. If the Boston Celtics win, ...

Win 6 different books by 6 different authors today.

I am not one to throw around the word "bonanza." In a lot of ways I respect that word too much to just bandy it about casually. So it is with no small degree of seriousness that I say today is a "book bonanza."

We're giving away six different books today. Three people will have the chance to win a bunch of books. Here's what is included:

Everyday Absurdities: Insights from the World's Most Trivial Man By Tyler Stanton

Hilarious book. Tyler is the half the genius behind the Tripp & Tyler

Winners of Craig Groeschel book, Pete Wilson book and the Macbook cover.

So many winners. Here is the list of people who won a bunch of stuff from Stuff Christians Like. If you see your name on the list after the jump, please email me with your mailing address so that I can hook you up.

Winners of Craig Groeschel "The Christian Atheist"

Tracie – (The last book she read was " When Women Come Out to Dance")

Scott – (Cast of Characters)

@chayworth – (Stuff Christians Like)

Adam Parker – (Wired for Intimacy)

Phil C – (Steel and Snow)

Winners of Pete Wilson's "Plan B"

DK

Laura-...

Starting a Christian Blog.

(Kevin Ring is approximately 9 feet tall. I know this because once at a conference he raised his hand during a Q&A and asked me, "Why did God take the unicorns away?" Legit question, legit question. The reason was because we didn't respect their beauty and/or their stabbing horns. Seems pretty obvious when you think about it. Fortunately, Kevin does a lot more than just awesome questions. Now he writes awesome guest posts. Enjoy.)

If you're like me then you started a Christian blog because...

Facebook & Twitter

Yesterday's post was a good example of how funny other folks are. That idea was something someone emailed me. I thought it was great and then turned it into a post. I'd like to do that more often. So I'm going to start holding impromptu brainstorming sessions on both Twitter and Facebook. When I have an idea that will be a lot funnier if you help me, I'll post it on the Jonathan Acuff Facebook page or throw it on Twitter for feedback. I think that will be fun.

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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...