Jon Acuff's Blog, page 192

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.

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.

Tune in...

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...

Guest Posts

Check your inboxes if you signed up for the SCL guest post. I will be sending them out starting today. Let's do the big post on Tuesday, April 6. We initially talked about April 2, but that's Good Friday and I don't want to assume you'd prefer to spend that day on your blog participating in an SCL guest post.

Thanks for doing this with me!

One more reason to love Carlos Whittaker.

I love Carlos Whittaker. He is seriously such a fantastically humble, talented guy it makes me a little dizzy sometimes. And now, he's a famous guy too. In addition to releasing a great album, being a Godfather of Christian blogging and having the coolest tattoo on the planet he just released one of the best viral videos of the year.

In it, he tells his three year old that "you're not a single lady" while his kids are dancing. What ensues is a stink eye from his daughter, a crying three year o...