Jon Acuff's Blog, page 186

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.

Who is the best non dead Christian writer?

I'm curious, who would you say is the best, currently alive Christian writer? Best is a broad term and you can define it any way you like. "Living," less so. And I assure you this is not like that time I wrote, "Who is the next Donald Miller?" As a prone to kick me in the butt friend pointed out, that was an ego move I did so that people would say "you are Jon." Ridiculous. This isn't that.

Who do you think is the best currently not dead Christian writer?

(A guy named Ben made a good point. We ...

Resisting Rest.

I once had a job where a manager fell asleep during a training course. We paid tens of thousands of dollars to bring in some experts to train us and in the back row of the conference room he was sprawled out in his chair sleeping.

Years ago, that wouldn't have been a big deal. I'm not saying I would have covered him up in a blanket and nestled a Webkinz stuffed animal into the crook of his arm, but the story of his sleeping would have faded fairly quickly. Unfortunately for him, people now...

Top 5 Stuff Christians Like Posts of April

Here are the top 5 Stuff Christians Like posts of April:

1. #755. Skipping Church (The Definitive Rules)

2. #756. Figuring out if you're at a Christian concert.

3. #742. Hating on Christian Movies.

4. #753. Bragging about being clueless about pop culture.

5. #750. Thinking the church is not wisely spending your tithe.

The guy who takes credit for an answered prayer request.

I'm not sure if the phrase, "you're welcome," is officially in the Bible, but it should be because,

You're welcome.

For what? Are you serious? You really have to ask that? For shame my friend, for shame. I'm talking about a little thing we call "Brian got a new job." Or as I might like to say, "an answered prayer request," that was tied up with a bow by yours truly.

At the end of the day, it's not about me. It's about Brian. I saw a brother in need and did what any prayer warrior, no prayer...

Having a big fight right before church.

I don't have proof of this, I mean there is no scientific evidence about what I am about to say, but I think it's true:

The hour before you attend church is like the devil's Super Bowl.

Seriously, that is a golden hour for him, 60 minutes where he rolls up the sleeves of his Armani suit (Admit it, you thought the devil wore Prada) and he gets the job done like Big Daddy Kane. (80s rap reference and Meryl Streep movie nod in the same sentence? What!)

I am assuming his goal is to get you...