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April 5, 2010
North Carolina in 2 Weeks.
I'm coming to speak/hangout/give out Booty, God, Booty buttons in North Carolina. Here are the details:
Saturday, April 17, Flyleaf bookstore at 11:00AM
Book signing – 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Sunday, April 18, Gathering Church at 10:30AM
Speaking – Church is held at Creekside Elementary School.
5321 Ephesus Church Rd Durham, NC 27707
Hope to see you there.
April 4, 2010
Thinking you're naked.
Easter is about grace. And when I think about grace, one of the things that stops me short of believing in it is shame. This post, written last year, is about shame and grace and the reason we're not naked.
I don't want to brag, but I'm pretty awesome at applying band-aids. And make no mistake, there is an art. Because if you go too quickly and peel them the wrong way, they stick to themselves and you end up with a wadded up useless mess instead of the Little Mermaid festooned bandage your...
April 3, 2010
Easter is
I fear I may be too late.
We went to a store last night and they were already out of Cadbury Crème eggs. An elusive candy to begin with, something strange happens the weekend of Easter. They just disappear. It's like they know their run is over and that it's time to do a reverse commute back to England similar to Canada Geese, the most entitled animals on the planet.
But as sad as I am to see those small globes of perfection fade into a creamy sunset, I'm glad Cadbury has never tried to...
Best of March
Top Ten Posts of March 2010 on Stuff Christians Like …
1. Making Old Testament Bible Themed Jokes about the iPad
2. Cool Christian Litmus Test Questions
3. Telling someone they shouldn't tell you about their fast
5. Leprechauns
10. Expecting your kids to memorize more Bible than you
Top Serious Wednesday Post
Getting wrecked by these two words.
April 2, 2010
A unicorn trailer & lions on trampolines.
So a few months ago I went up to Zondervan's headquarters to record the audio book. They said let's shoot some videos. I've never done that and was very sweaty. In the middle of one of the shoots, I kind of freaked out because it's really hard to do a Christian video and not feel like you are just impersonating Rob Bell. So I did that. About a cantaloupe. And they recorded it. And added unicorns. Oh boy. Video after the jump…
CSI-ing where your kids learned bad stuff.
My kids are hilarious. Everybody says that. By law you are required to say that your kids are smart and beautiful and have tremendous vertical leaps, but trust me, my kids are legitimately funny. We work on material. Tuesday night is open mic night and we each stand on the hearth and deliver up to three minutes of new material. My oldest daughter L.E. is thinking about joining little league baseball just for some new joke material similar to how Jerry Seinfeld had a baby so he could tell...
Craig Groeschel finds a lost chapter of Stuff Christians Like.
One of my favorite pastors, Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv, recently gave me the chance to share a "lost chapter" of the Stuff Christians Like
book. He put it on their blog and he's also giving away a few copies of the book.
Click here to read the lost chapter and to get your chance at a free book.
April 1, 2010
CNN & SCL Tomorrow Morning.
Tomorrow morning I will be on CNN. I'm doing a brief bit on their show American Morning. The show airs from 6AM – 9AM ET.
I'll be talking about church 2.0 and whether Christians should be on facebook/twitter. I'm not sure when during that 3 hour block I will be on, but I do know that I didn't swear and according to my wife I waved my hands about like a 1975 Bell 206B Helicopter on meth. I told her that's a really specific example but she disagreed and it became this whole thing.
Preparing for Easter.
The other day, a friend of mine got an email from his pastor about Easter.
Everyone in his church got the email and it was essentially a reminder that they should all behave on Easter Sunday. It said things like, "Please remember there are no assigned seats." It was kind of funny but at the end of the day it just didn't cover enough details.
So today I decided I would help you out, really serve you if you will, and remind you of a few things you need to do to have a successful Easter:
1. Scout o...
Free copy of the Stuff Christians Like audio book!
This is going to be fun …
You can now get the Stuff Christians Like audio book for free.
It usually costs $13.99 but this April, starting right now, Zondervan and Christian Audio are giving it away for free.
There's no catch. No April Fools silliness, just 4.4 hours of me reading you the book with my melodic yankee/southern hybrid accent. (Supplies are limited so even though I feel like Billy Mays saying this, act now.)
So here's what I was thinking: There are a ton of your friends and my...
