en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/947729 Comments by girlJaye http://www.tylerstanton.com/2011/04/07/arbitrary-thoughts-21/#IDComment140762299 I had an '83 Trans Am, and I liked to drive around in it singing Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar on Meh'. Oh my word. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:57:25 +0000 http://www.tylerstanton.com/2011/04/07/arbitrary-thoughts-21/#IDComment140762299 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/11/putting-bible-verses-on-weird-things/#IDComment108830248 I'm in a dorm at seminary, but instead of living in the grad student dorms, I'm part of a discipleship & spiritual formation program that has a group of seminary women living in a suite in an undergrad women's dorm. So there's a lot of childish graffiti carved onto the ceiling of my room, and amidst it is the verse Psalm 115:1 - not the whole verse, just "Psalm 115:1". Except whoever carved it replaced the "P" of Psalm with a cross. I've been trying to make sense of it for the last two years. Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:02:07 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/11/putting-bible-verses-on-weird-things/#IDComment108830248 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/11/the-rarest-church-musician-of-all-time/#IDComment107802312 especially on a nice warn, humid day Thu, 4 Nov 2010 16:21:28 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/11/the-rarest-church-musician-of-all-time/#IDComment107802312 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/11/the-person-who-starts-a-coughing-chain-reaction-in-church/#IDComment107200211 Haha! This used to happen to my old pastor all the time! He WAS the chain reaction starter. I mean, he was a really great guy, and he preached a mean message and all, but wow, once he got going with the tickle... Mon, 1 Nov 2010 17:43:02 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/11/the-person-who-starts-a-coughing-chain-reaction-in-church/#IDComment107200211 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/10/starting-new-churches/#IDComment105787544 Hey, I'M the ex-stripper who sings at church! I don't think anybody's ever complained that I'm not wearing enough clothing, though. Not that I know of anyway. Hmmm, what're they not telling me... Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:30:41 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/10/starting-new-churches/#IDComment105787544 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/3686/#IDComment99375660 Oh, that Daylight Savings Time thing, that gets 'em every time! It's really fun to be on the worship team and watch that one unfold. We're always there early, so we get to witness the DST - is it real, or is it rapture? confusion every year. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:45:09 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/3686/#IDComment99375660 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/3672/#IDComment98938544 Just this past weekend, three friends and I drove down to Florida from Chicago to be with another friend whose father had died suddenly and tragically. We hopped in a car on Saturday morning, were there by Sunday, attended the funeral Monday morning, and were right back in the car and on the way back to Chicago by noon on Monday. It was probably one of the hardest weekends I've ever been through. Sometimes it was hard to see where God was in it all. We got maybe 12-16 hours of sleep total throughout the whole thing. The friend who'd lost her father was in shock, and we came to realize that if we hadn't come for her, she would have had no peers there to bear her up. We watched her ride a rollercoaster of emotions from denial to anger to a final breaking down into despair at her loss. The four of us who drove down struggled, too, because we're human and fallen. We struggled with our lack of sleep, with our own relational issues - after being together in a car for 50 hours, who wouldn't - with our own grief as we mourned with our friend, and with the simple fact that it is sin and the fallenness of man that causes such tragedies to take place. And yet there was a moment in the midst of it all when our friend Jen, whose father had just died, took us to the beach. We played in the water and laid on the sand. We picked up cocoa nuts and shells and coral on the shore and walked down the coast line. At the end of it all, she played Phil Wickham's "You're Beautiful" for me, and we watched the sunset over the beach at Boca Raton, and it was perhaps one of the most beautiful and poignant moments I'd ever experienced. I was there with four people I loved perhaps more than anything else in this world, worshipping God, experiencing the fullness of all the emotions that He has created me to feel - joy, sadness, love, pain, loss - and it was in the midst of this tragic situation that He was bringing it to bear. There was nothing wrong with playing in the ocean in the midst of our heartache. it was the gift of God. We rejoiced because God had brought us together for our friend, had given us another day together, had made us rich in each other. I think this is a little like prosperity. Sometimes we feel like it's not right to have nice things because we should only suffer for Christ, should only be sacrificing what we have so that others will see how much we care for Him or for others. I think it is good to give, and it is good to give things up for the sake of others, but we shouldn't suffer needlessly just to make a point. Jesus already made that point for us, and didn't He already suffer enough? Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:09:16 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/3672/#IDComment98938544 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/loving-on-your-friend-who-is-3-weeks-late-on-internet-trends/#IDComment97886301 Hey, I'm just cool enough to admit that today is the first day I've ever seen any of those there vids mentioned by Jon in his post. Thanks for bringing me into the now... er... then... Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:19:29 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/loving-on-your-friend-who-is-3-weeks-late-on-internet-trends/#IDComment97886301 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/happy-labor-day/#IDComment97296032 If you do go with the dancing sign thing, make sure you get some photos. Praying for you today that you won't have to labor too hard at getting that house off the market! Mon, 6 Sep 2010 14:38:48 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/happy-labor-day/#IDComment97296032 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/what-do-you-do-for-a-living/#IDComment96944352 I'm a full time graduate student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (that's seminary) working on two master's degrees, one in Biblical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Semitic Languages and the other in New Testament Studies, so I'm pretty much sucking off of financial aid (a combination of scholarships, grants, and loans) for a "living" right now. I live in Deerfield, Illinois, near Chicago. Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:46:48 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/09/what-do-you-do-for-a-living/#IDComment96944352 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94369715 Oh man, that's a really awesome verse! I think I'll have to add it to the list of verses that I'm currently cheating on 2 Corinthians 4:17 with. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:31:41 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94369715 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94369018 hey, that's not a life verse! it's a life verses! Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:26:17 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94369018 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94368756 isn't there some levitical law against that? would i be making a life covenant with all of the different life verses, or just playing the field with all of them? or would i be shacking up with all of them at the same time? o man, this just gets more and more complicated! Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:24:10 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94368756 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94358955 I've been dating 3 or 4 different life verses for some time now. I feel kinda like Deb above - like a life verse playa. Sometimes I settle down with one for a while and then I think that maybe it's time to make that life verse commitment, only to find that I've just been life verse shacking up, because then one of the other verses that I've been double dipping with on the back burner just seems so much more appropriate and suitable. Is this wrong? Should I just tell all of these life verses that, hey, it's nothing personal, but I have to dump them all and start to get serious about my quest for that one life verse that I'll be able to weather any storm with? I'm so torn. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:02:16 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/08/having-a-life-verse/#IDComment94358955 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/predicting-the-end-of-the-world-too-often/#IDComment87697955 Dude, Taco Bell has a diet?! Why am I not on this! Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:49:52 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/predicting-the-end-of-the-world-too-often/#IDComment87697955 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment87035815 You're welcome, Brenda ;) Personally, I try not to whip them out any more than I have to. They're all just "h" words to me... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:09:07 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment87035815 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86998079 OH SNAP! pastormatt! Whips out the big guns! I think you should throw in the Amyraldian, too, just to make sure you cover all your bases ;) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:37:19 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86998079 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86997322 At my seminary, every tuesday after Chapel our Student Services gives out free Panera bagels with cream cheese, pastries, bread & spreads, and Panera coffees. Wahoo. Tuesday Chapel is, of course, the most well-attended. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:32:11 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86997322 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86996686 Now, let me just come clean right now and say that I'm an old school kind of original Skittles, "Holy, Holy, Holy" worship service kind of girl (even though I do play a pink sparkly bass on stage on Sundays - does that make me an oxymoron?). But, I'm just throwing out a supposition, that the doctrinal use of wild berry or tropical Skittles mightn't be theologically inappropriate if you were worshiping with a ripped jeans flavored worship band or a hawaiian shirt flavored pastor, which I hear you can purchase on sale these days most Sunday afternoons at your local Family Christian Store. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:28:32 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86996686 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86989626 Trust me, the best way to shake things up in seminary is to come into a convo where they're using those big 75 cent words and start using words that would make the conversation accessible to a high schooler. I've never seen a roomful of seminarians backpedal in their brains so fast as when you start to actually call things what they are in words that can be spelled with less than 5 letters. You should try it some time. It's good for the soul. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:49:56 +0000 http://stuffchristianslike.net/2010/07/having-a-spiritually-competent-conversation-or-at-least-the-impression-of-it/#IDComment86989626