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Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Taking things from the head to the heart.

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:21:15 +0000

Do you COME INTO MY MIND!?? I have been saying this phrase over and over and over again recently.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Taking things from the head to the heart.

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:20:24 +0000

whooa really? That's just a little messed up.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Wondering if the guy next to you will share gum once you've seen it.

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 00:49:50 +0000

I was raised Catholic, and I used to swallow my gum as I stood up to get in line for communion... haha. Also, when I was really young, in Catholic school, the nuns had eagle eyes, and they would catch everyone before church started and make you spit it out into their hand.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Struggling with new.

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:40:09 +0000

Amen! - Jesus doesn't take the shattered pieces of our old lives and glue them back together - he picks them up and makes a mosaic :) I think there is something else important to drag from this story though - you mentioned how you thought the crab looked dead, just before it molted and became new. I think that's very applicable to being born again as a Christian - initially, it can be *very* painful. It can feel like you're dying at points. It's hard, and you might feel like you're just going to die there, without a new shell. But you won't. Eventually, your new shell will come out. :) Keep pushing past the pain, birth is coming! Praise God for the way he works, it's beautiful :D

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Romanticizing the manger where Jesus was born.

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:52:16 +0000

Haha my childhood church has a live nativity too. For many year now, the wisemen have had to stand *next* to the camels, because the camels had to be kept in a large pen, far from people - they were just too mean to be handled! They would literally bite you if you got too close. Now *that's* reality (nevermind that Mary is 8 and Joseph is 9 and that Jesus is actually a Bitty-Baby doll wrapped in a towel....)

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Romanticizing the manger where Jesus was born.

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:46:03 +0000

I picture it something like that. Except that Joseph is inside the house sipping on some wine, shooting the breeze with the boys. ;)

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Romanticizing the manger where Jesus was born.

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:51:39 +0000

I've read that we've got the entirely wrong idea about Jesus being born in a manger anyway. First of all, no one in their right mind would just allow a pregnant woman to give birth in a barn. She probably gave birth indoors and then put jesus in the manger afterward as a make-shift "crib". Here's an article that i read about it - http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/12/...

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : What should we do on Stuff Christians Like in 2010?

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:07:18 +0000

Which could have a follow up post about how every time you buy a new Bible you feel like you have to qualify it with "It's new!!"

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : What should we do on Stuff Christians Like in 2010?

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:01:55 +0000

Can you please do a post on "judging people's whose Bibles look unused"?

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : A very Cornelius Christmas.

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:43:56 +0000

"I Cornelius, am really excited about picking up the leftover crumbs of goldfish off the floor of the room used for Sunday school in 2010." I guess bread crumbs in the park are for those "heathen" doves.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Welcome to the 8 most dangerous days of the year.

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:17:19 +0000

You will never rid the world of the easter bunny any more than you could santa claus. And you shouldn't try. And I think that there are songs that are "Ressurection Mass Carols"... they're called hymns ;)

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:05:38 +0000

No, I meant explain the theology behind it. Show me!

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:47:25 +0000

I'm curious as to what would make you say this. Can you explain more fully?

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:45:44 +0000

I think Satan hates the nonbelievers because that is his nature. Hate and misery. Would be it in his best interest to keep them "happy" as you said? Maybe. (on that note, wouldn't it have been in his best interest not to disobey God in the first place and remain an angel?) Maybe he also wants to drive people as far from godly lives as possible and enjoys seeing them curse God when bad things happen. I don't know. All I know is that Satan can only do what God allows him to, and I have no reason to believe that he doesn't hate non-believers. And one more thing - Yes, I believe in the truth of the statement that God works for the good of those who love him. However, I also believe that the grace and forgiveness offered to us by God are much more than we could or will EVER deserve. In fact, we don't even come close to deserving it. Yet God gave it to us anyway, even when we were still unbelievers living in sin. Why shouldn't we also suppose that God is generous in other ways even to "bad" people. He knows more than we do. Maybe he's just pouring out love. Maybe there's a plan in the good to bring the person to him. We have no idea.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:11:53 +0000

The devil only does what God allows him to. :) Even when he attacks us, God is still technically in control. What a wonderful thing it is that when we are attacked by the devil, instead of being driven farther from God, we have the opportunity to RUN to him and draw ourselves even closer to him. :)

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:10:31 +0000

What makes you think that the devil isn't intent on ruining the lives of bad people too? Just because they're not in fellowship with Jesus doesn't absolve them of the ability to one day do so, nor does it abate the devils' absolute hatred for them. And sometimes, bad people reap what they sow.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:09:06 +0000

Like someone already said, there's no guessing game involved here. You can pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help you discern whether this is good old fashion "stuff happens" or whether the devil/demons are coming in to play.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:04:56 +0000

I sometimes think not because I often get headaches or stomachaches when I try to pray or read my Bible. And if I stop - bam. Gone. Now i just send Satan away and they normally go away too.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:03:23 +0000

I have to wonder also whether Satan gets strongholds in certain places and then destroys everything that resists against him. For instance, I know of a horribly poor Appalachian town. For the past few decades, there has been a wonderful Christ-centered organization fighting to rebuild the town and remake it from the inside out. In just the past month, the leader had a heart attack and had to resign, their federal funding got cut, and many of the fund-raising projects they normally do fell through. Now they're facing closing. That has to be too much to be a coincidence.

Stuff Christians Like - Jon Acuff : Spiritual Attacks.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:59:21 +0000

This happens to my family too! We ALWAYS fight just before church. It makes it so hard to focus on the service.