Stuff Christians Like Review Posted: Mar 24, 2010 Since launching on March 21, 2008, Jonathan Acuff's Christian blog Stuff Christians Like has been met with phenomenal success. It is just one of several sites inspired by Christian Lander's blog Stuff White People Like. Today SCL ranks in the top 1 percent of worldwide blogs. In this book version of his popular blog, Acuff has good, clean (although extremely frank), hilarious fun with all aspects of modern Christendom. Among many other topics, you will find essays on getting hate mail from other Christians, proper prayer lingo, Worship Eagles, getting advice from younger people, debating people who like to argue, and calling Sunday School everything except Sunday School.

Coming to You Posted: Sep 30, 2009 Sometimes when I think about the immensity of the universe I feel so pathetic and insignificant. Our teeny-tiny, brief existences can be so depressing and overwhelming. And yet, thinking about the immenseness can, ironically, lead one to a fuller joy and boldness. Consider the huge and complex dance: The universe is so incredibly big many scientists believe it doesn't even have an end. Our small, finite minds cannot comprehend such a thing. Our minds don't register endlessness to anything. We cannot fathom the enormity of what we know or guess is there.

Study, Flesh, and Exploding Brains Posted: Aug 17, 2009 After a 10-year absence I returned to school this past January. Long mental exertion is hard on the head--wow, is it hard. It hurts the body--boy, does it ever hurt. The sleeplessness, the hours pouring over books, the anxiety, the endless memorizing--it is enough to drive one to madness! I don't know about you, but I got to the point where my face felt like a corpse, my eyes felt ready to pop out, and I was sure my brain was about to explode from all the dates and names and terms crammed inside. Oh yeah, and I felt like an albino.

If God Is Good, Why Does Evil Exist? Posted: Jul 29, 2009 Does God actually exist? Is He actually good? If He is good, why does He let us suffer? How can a good God tolerate evil? If God exists and is good, why doesn't He make the pain and darkness stop?

Judging What We See Posted: Jul 14, 2009 Jesus was probably not a very appealing teacher. Visually, there were not a lot of things that encouraged people to follow him: He was poor; He was unlearned; He didn’t always publicly perform miracles (sometimes He even went out of His way to hide them); He was not very well liked in His hometown. Jesus both taught and demonstrated we can’t always trust our eyes for right judgments.

More Posted: Jul 14, 2009 When you think of success, what words spring to mind? If you are like most people, probably words like money, career, luxury, and ambition. All of these are tell-tale signs of the world’s influence on us. The world’s view of success is money-centered. Jesus mentioned birds and flowers when describing true success (Matthew 6:26-30). True, He was specifically referring to controlling worry, but I think not worrying is key to biblical success. Success is not all about getting money. The world (society) does not see it that way.

Knowing Stuff Posted: Jul 14, 2009 How do I know I know stuff? How does anyone know anything? Where does knowledge come from anyway? Ironically, answer-ology evokes more questions than answers. Everything we know we learned from another human, book, or experience. You can’t fully trust any of these things for complete truth. What we think are good answers from other people are not always the right answers. They are sometimes educated opinions, which can be made to sound true regardless of how stupid they really are.

The Joy of Singlicitude Posted: Jul 14, 2009 Joy isn’t what you might think it is. It might not even be what you think you’re looking for. It isn’t pleasure or happiness—although it may sometimes include these things. Joy springs from a relationship with God (John 15:9-17). C.S. Lewis described it best in Surprised By Joy. Here he discussed his early search for joy, which he finally found through Christ. Lewis said joy is an unsatisfied desire. He had come to discover real joy comes from God. Other things can reflect it; nothing else can produce it.