SCL

The Stuff of Stuff Christians Like

#1. Putting a God spin on popular secular ideas.
#2. Saying “bless her heart.”
#3. Reading “love is patient” at your wedding.
#4. Books with people on the cover.
#5. Bootleg Cookies
#6. Songs with bottomless lyrics.
#7. Stryper
#8. Singing friends are friends forever at camp.
#9. Comparing Braveheart to Christianity
#10. Weird Memorabilia
#11. Thomas Kinkade
#12. Getting awesome in a certain number of steps.
#13. Adding gyms to your church
#14. Dating God instead of me.
#15. Calling satan “the enemy.”
#16. Greeting the people around you.
#17. Unspoken Prayer Requests
#18. Cross stitching bible verses.
#19. Dressing up church with cool words
#20. Psalty
#21. Saying “I thought marriage would fix things”
#22. Mixing sign language and music.
#23. Tattoos for God
#24. Church names that sound like clothing stores.
#25. Jonah, Noah and David
#26. Songs that sound Christian but aren’t.
#27. Famous Christians
#28. Rob Bell
#29. Not Dancing
#30. The end of the Harry Potter series.
#31. Occasionally swearing
#32. Lasers instead of stained glass.
#33. Singing with our hands raised.
#34. Subtly finding out if you drink beer too.
#35. Lock ins
#36. Creating new types of services
#37. Abstinence
#38. Joel Osteen
#39. Giving advice on things we’ve never experienced
#40. Ignoring the Sabbath
#41. Making music that is impossible to exercise to
#42. Putting God on your business card
#43. Metrosexual worship leaders
#44. Saying God is not funny.
#45. Getting your money’s worth out of the youth group liability form.
#46. Super Happy Shiny Christian Radio
#47. Rooting for secret Christians on American Idol
#48. Doing a mime to Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror
#49. Odd Sales Promotions
#50. Bible Fanny Packs
#51. Fun Mission Trips
#52. Andy Stanley
#53. Saying, “I’ll pray for you” and the not.
#54. Halloween Hating
#55. Getting a precise definition of virgin from your youth minister.
#56. Talking to strangers on planes.
#57. Not owning nice stuff.
#58. Calling people “seekers.”
#59. Watching Jon and Kate Plus 8.
#60. Youth Sunday – A parade of mediocrity
#61. Being Relevant
#62. Being slightly less nice than Mormons
#63. Rededicating your life, again.
#64. Fearing the rapture would come before you lost your virginity.
#65. Ending emails with God shout outs
#66. Eating your bodyweight in goldfish
#67. Editing pop culture
#68. Saying I don’t even own a TV
#69. Saving seats at church
#70. Discovering our spiritual gifts
#71. Calling things “postmodern”
#72. Love Offerings
#73. Getting caught of guard by divorce
#74. Youth group vehicles that break down, blow up and in general suck
#75. Quoting from the message when the regular bible is being disagreeable.
#76. Grape Juice
#77. Offering a safe approach to life.
#78. Using the Christian “F” word
#79. Journaling
#80. Fixing things with “mo prayer.”
#81. Disguising gossip as prayer
#82. Books that become empires
#83. Telling instead of showing.
#84. Stock Photography
#85. Hating your enemy in the church parking lot
#86. Publicity hating but secretly your facebook profile
#87. Throwing the G card.
#88. Associating “meditation” with yoga, candles and chanting.
#89. Knowing where not to be during the rapture.
#90. The tankini
#91. Seeing sins as a catapult
#92. The Shack
#93. Riding in the cool van at youth group
#94. Highly Specialized Bibles
#95. Fearing God will send you to Guam.
#96. Using God’s Favorite Word
#97. Getting angry that Ned Flanders slept with that girl
#98 Emerging from something
#99. Mixed Bathing
#100. MC Hammer’s Pray
#101. Letting anyone play music
#102. The Day after retreat blues
#103. Singing God is an awesome god
#104. Putting God in the liner notes
#105. Wishing your testimony was more exciting
#106. The Side Hug
#107. Sunday Sunday Sunday
#108. Not knowing how to hold hands
#109. Baby crack and veggie tales
#110. Donald Miller
#111. The Five Love Languages
#112. Trying to be liked
#113. Booty, God, Booty
#114. Not knowing how to act in a counselors office
#115. Kissing Dating Goodbye
#116. Using ‘let me pray about it’ as a synonym for no.
#117. The search for one more person
#118. Slowly turning against Oprah
#119. Saying in Christian love before you punch someone in the face
#120. Evangelism Tools
#121. Thinking God’s call will be long and detailed
#122. Redefining sin or how I justified doing drugs
#123. Flags, handbells and puppets
#124. The kid that makes out with girls from other youth groups
#125. The mandatory youth group goatee
#126. The Hype man
#127. Building a community of communities within a community
#128. Throwing stuff away out of guilt and then buying it again
#129. Chick-Fil-A
#130. Praying at people
#131. The bald worship leader
#132. Thinking God lost his A game
#133. Refusing to paint my mural
#134. Witnessing to people that don’t believe in the bible using the bible
#135. Dave Ramsey
#136. Dropping “wake up” phrases in sermons
#137. Holding retreats at places that could double for horror movies
#138. Saying I grew up in the church
#139. The Choir side step
#140. Telling the pastor what his kids have been up to
#141. Getting freaky deeky with the Song of Solomon
#142. Gloria Estefan’s “Coming out of the dark”
#143. Getting your kids beat up
#144. Wishing sin was not fun
#145. Weird Dating sites
#146. Casually writing books about God
#147. Trust Falls
#148. War Themed Ministries
#149. Boycotting stuff
#150. Waiting on God
#151. Francine Rivers, the Thoenes and other books with windswept people on the cover.
#152. A liberal use of exclamation points!!!
#153. Grossly underpaying the designer of the salvation illustration
#154. Breaking up after a retreat
#155. Painfully named divorce ministries
#156. Telling you how many people come to our church
#157. Testamints – Sending bad breath to hell
#158. Calling someone pastor instead of their first name
#159. The pray if you feel led prayer
#160. The bait and switch
#161. Refusing to make music you can slow dance to
#162. Pimping your kids from the pulpit
#163. The mysterious arrival of the letter e
#164. The Christian version of speed dating
#165. The double sermon. Four warning signs
#166. Telling the people around you that God loves them.
#167. Believing in calendars
#168. Printing bulletins on ink repelling paper
#169. Clapping our hands
#170. Email Forwards
#171. Meticulous, Magnificently Making Multiple Messages Match (M)letters.
#172. Letting Porn Win
#173. The Crock Pot, a love letter.
#174. Forcing little kids to sing at the end of your song
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#176. Giving open flames to kids on Christmas Eve.
#177. Singing duets with sunsets and waterfalls
#178. Overusing your one seminary word
#179. Referring to that one Jesus clears the temple verse when you get angry
#180. Patronizing the baby Christians
#181. Preaching an 87 week long sermon
#182. Saying “pot blessings” instead of “pot lucks”
#183. The passion of the Christ
#184. That table and chair ministers use on stage.
#185. Good enough for the church (or God’s love letter to artists)
#186. You down with OPP? Whoops, I meant G.O.D.
#187. Leaving room for the holy spirit when you dance.
#188. Judging someone’s faith based on their Bible underlining.
#189. The (G)DTR
#190. Hating Church Marketing (And how God invented it.)
#191. Committees on committees about committees
#192. Using “love on” as a verb.
#193. Fist fights in church softball games
#194. Traveling Mercies
#195. Believing bad times equals bad us.
#196. The secret bathroom at church.
#197. Super Spiritual
#198. Orange Drink
#199. Refusing to take compliments
#200. Confessing roughly 37% of your junk in premarital counseling
#201. Tagging kids like whales at Sunday school
#202. Thinking Vegas is slightly worse than hell
#203. Not knowing what meals to pray before
#204. Thinking temptation just kind of happens
#205. Frisbee – God’s Favorite Sport
#206. Putting the devil on notice
#207. Kicking old ladies in the face
#208. Christianizing your facebook profile
#209. Counting swears in movies
#210. Judging people you see jogging on Sunday morning
#211. The youth group hot seat
#212. Shrinking God
#213. Not knowing how to baptize tall people
#214. Disguising Baby Beauty Pageants as Baby Dedications
#215. Reading through the bible
#216. Precious Moments
#217. Giving mediocre high school graduation gifts
#218. Confusing never with ever
#219. Melon Farmer! Melon Farmer!
#220. The kid crying that makes every kid cry at Sunday School.
#221. Convincing youth group girls to make out with you
#222. The “First time visitors” message.
#223. Well actually, the Sabbath is a Saturday.
#224. Lying because I love you.
#225. Turning ushers into the secret service.
#226. Promise Rings (6 New SCL Versions)
#227. Narnia.
#228. NIV vs. KJV vs. ESV (Bible wars told via GI Joe)
#229. Margin or life balance or what $3 get you.
#230. Looking in the offering basket or bucket.
#231. Drinking Coffee in church.
#232. The magical power of denim
#233. Reading every word in the bulletin when bored
#234. Bible verse arms race
#235. Confessing things around a campfire
#236. The Friend that went to counseling once and is now an expert on counseling you.
#237. Tipping with a tract
#238 Wishing you had partied more before becoming a Christian
#239. Offering 37 million different ministries at your church
#240. Kirk Cameron
Dear person that googled porn and got me.
#241. Awkward youth group rap
#242. Developing a highly sensitive “God-dar” (or how to spot a famous Christian)
#243. Going through seasons
#244. Making God EMo
#245. Casserole of Hope
#246. The smell of old hymnals
#247. A bizarre relationship with CAPITALIZATION.
#248 Christian Comedians
#249. Backsliding, a Christian thing or an Indiana Jones move?
#250. The Unicorn Hymn or worship song.
#251. The “Everyone is on vacation, anything goes church service”
#252 Youth leader that makes everyone cry during games with his over competitiveness.
#253. Painting God mad
#254. Secretly wanting to name your son “Aragorn” or your daughter “Arwen.”
#255. The song “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield.
#256. Mission Trip Fund raising letters
#257. Eagles
#258 Taking a date to church
#259. Thinking faith is an event
#260. Drawing in the bulletin
#261. Parking in visitor parking
#262. Hoping TBS edits the Sex and the City movie, too.
#263. Competing in the “VBS classroom decorating wars.”
#264. When the pastor takes his coat off. (AKA, “It’s Relax time.”)
#265 Asking someone at VBS to watch “that kid” all week.
#266. Seeing your pastor in shorts only at VBS.
#267. Leaving things secretly in people’s mailboxes.
#268. Slow dancing with temptation.
#269. Understanding how Metrosexual your worship leader is.
#270. VBS Snacks
#271. Being afraid to use our gifts.
#272. Paying people “the Ministry Rate.”
#273. Powerpointing for the Lord
#274. Not knowing how to do a proper standing ovation
#275. Playing Red Rover at VBS.
#276. Doing super holy things for God
#277. Crazy Rapture Products
#278. Evander Holyfield
#279. The Senior Citizen volunteers at VBS.
#280. True Love Waits
#281. Using God as a financial plan.
#282. “Jesus Walks” by Kanye West
#283 Unwilling volunteer
#284 Willow Tree Figures.
#285. The lady worship leader.
#286. Secretly wanting to be a mega church.
#287. Father Abraham had many sons – the VBS mix tape
#288. Loving issues, liking people.
#289. Christian Cheers!! Christian Cheers!!
#290. The youth minister that tries to talk like the kids.
#291. Saying “I was just flipping channels” when you watch something you shouldn’t.
#292. Eating the homemade VBS play doh.
The SCL Dictionary.
#293. Not saying “but” enough.
#294. Confusing Ben Franklin with the Bible.
#295. Singing the 1st and 3rd verses of hymns.
#296. Fishbowling the drummer.
#297. Senior Pastor Syndrome
#298. Bringing Weird Stuff on Stage
#299. Playing hide and seek with God
#300. Civil wars between the pastor and the worship leader.
#301. The Prayer Grunt of affirmation.
#302. Prosperity or 28 ways Jesus blings
#303. Donating Junk to the church
#304. Sound guy Haiku
#305. Arguing about what a “real” ministry is.
#306. An “US Weekly” magazine approach to Atheists.
SCL Dictionary – Version 2
#307. Please turn to bible race
Remix #59 Jon & Kate Plus 8
#308. Torturing the janitor during VBS.
#309. Judgment Olympics
#310. Confusing god with blockbuster
#311. Those wacky VBS Themes.
#312. Talk Singing
Remix #14 Dating God instead of me.
#313. Liking the Bible less than Hunter Thompson like the Great Gatsby.
#314. Selling out or why I can’t shave my unibrow.
#315. Unaccountability Partner
#316. Final Performance Night at VBS
SCL Dictionary – Version 3
#317. Telling someone the sermon was for them.
#318. Profusely Perspiring Pastors
#319. Doves
#320. Making purple: 11 ways to stop camp kissing.
#321. The background music for prayers.
#322. Too many kaleidoscopes. Not enough telescopes.
#323. Trying to look cool at church.
#324. Dear blob, a love letter.
Remix – #36. Creating new types of services.
#325. The superhero guide to famous pastors.
#326. Using the Hermit Lie
#327. Conferences, AKA the Christian Prom
#328. Christian Music Festivals
Remix – #251 – The “Everyone is on vacation, anything goes” church service. (AKA tomorrow)
#329. Arguing about the “wives submit to your husbands” idea.
#330. Saying “if only”
#331. Missionary family photos – Part 2 of 2
#331. Missionary family photos – Part 1 of 2
#332. That dude with the guitar at camp.
#333. “Mayer” Christianity
#334. The “stop that” church hand grab.
#335. Red Bull Christianity
Remix – #9. Comparing Braveheart to Christianity
#336. Praying with our hands on people.
#337. The guy that screams “Jesus!!!” at concerts.
#338. The last night cry fest at camp.
#339. Forgiveness (or lessons from the Cuban torture specialist)
Part 2 – The Super Hero Guide to Famous Pastors
SCL Dictionary – Version 4
#340. Liquefying God’s Love
#341. Being Switzerland (Or me and the “Family Guy”)
#342. Biblically named ropes courses.
#343. Hades Hot or Snow Cold – the two sanctuary temperatures
#344. God: author of life, the Bible and billboards.
#345. Hand Raising Worship – The 10 Styles
Remix – #34. Subtly finding out if you drink beer too.
#346. Worship leaders that add the word “and” to songs.
#347. Using faith as “God currency.”
#348. Pastor’s Wives – The 3 Types
#349. Shining up our scars.
#350. The Whisper of Importance
#351. The Worship Leader that wants to be a Preacher
#352. Preachers that want to be Worship Leaders.
#353. Camp food.
#354. Holy phone ring tones.
#355. Warning friends that your new friend is a non-Christian.
#356. The 7 Types of Christian Camp Counselors
#357. The prayer version of “You Stay Classy San Diego.”
Remix – #63. Rededicating your life. Again.
#358. Color coding salvation.
#359. Arguing about taking little kids to big church.
#360. Jessica Simpson – Should we take her back?
#361. Taking God Seriously
#362. The movie “Facing the Giants”
#363. The Camp Testi-whoa-ny
#364. Feeling unqualified for “that thing”
Remix – #92. The Shack
#365. Mission Trip Souvenirs (or the sandals that prove you’ve been to Africa.)
#366. Holy quotes at the end of emails.
#367. Asking for money at church.
#368. Massages during church. (A manifesto against them)
#368. Part 2 – Fans of Church Massages Respond
#369. The magical things that happen on stage when you close your eyes to pray.
#370. Getting addicted to religion.
Remix – #93. Riding on the cool van in youth group.
#371. The dude that drinks the water and gets sick on mission trips
#372. The marriage triangle.
#373. The Prayer Ninja
#374. “<><” – Christian Emoticons
Remix – #16. Greeting the people around you.
#375. Forgetting who we are.
#376. Falling in love on a mission trip.
#377. The music minister that gives his wife all the solos.
#378. The mission trip airport layover.
#379. Michael Phelps sermon illustrations
#380. The rapper’s guide to televangelists.
#381. Accountability
#382. Perfectly timing your communion walk.
Remix – # 256. Mission Trip Fundraising Letters (And why I should write your next one.)
#383. Christian hate mail, a how to guide.
#384. Mission Trip Leader Fanny Pack Syndrome
#385. Always sitting in the same seat at church
#386. The greatest exercise-focused Bible verse ever.
#387. Thinking our junk will shock God.
#388. The 11 signs of a wicked awesome mission trip interpretative dance song.
#389. Church Mafia – The 4 Ruling Families
#390. The 13 things you don’t want to hear on a mission trip.
#391. The Holy Sounding Mascot Game
#392. Treating God like the dentist.
Remix – #53. Saying “I’ll pray for you” and then not.
#393. Family Fish Bumper Stickers
#394. Dressing up for Sunday lunch in college so it looks like you went to church.
#395. The Christian version of Guitar Hero.
#396. Rounding up your attendance for God.
#397. Feeling too small for God.
#398. The 5 Types of College Chapel Speakers
#399. Using words you learned in counseling.
Remix – #245. The Casserole of Hope
#400. Homeschooling
#401. Jesus, the sports hero.
#402. Thinking God is far away.
#403. Stuff Christians Like/Stacy From Louisville Cooperative For the Preservation Of The Integrity of Bible College Love Super Quiz 2008
#404. Grand Theft Auto Xian Edition
#405. Saying, “The Bible” when asked what your favorite book is.
#406. Meeting famous pastors.
#407. Christian Singing Groups
#408. The Double Greeting
#409. Treating God like Letterman treated Carson.
#410. The Youth Group Intern
#411. Labeling people “the next Billy Graham.”
#412. The Christian Energy Drink.
#413. Trying to find a cause.
#414. Secret singing.
#415. The 5 stages of emailing friends an unintentionally funny Christian video.
#416. The 3 Rules of Movie Sermon Analogies
#417. Fatal after Church Restaurant Mistakes.
#418. Throwing rocks at squirrels.
Caption this photo.
#419. Bass Player Face
Remix #81. Disguising gossip as prayer.
The world’s largest side hug photo.
#420. Embellished Blazers
#421. Empty Room Lessons
#422. Singing when you’re supposed to be praying.
Remix #304. The Sound Guy/Gal Haiku
#423. Creating the holiest church logo possible. A how to guide.
#424. Three new names for “Blended Worship”
#425. The little David Caruso on our shoulders.
#426. Upward basketball
Remix #41. Making music that is impossible to exercise to
#427. Inducting Coldplay into the “Sounds Almost Like a Christian Band Hall of Fame”
#Remix 137. Holding retreats at locations that could double as horror movies.
#428. Folding under the pressure of passing the offering plate.
#429. Treating God like a Juice Machine.
Remix – #54. Halloween Hating
#430. Pretending to like C.S. Lewis.
#431. Boys vs. Girls Tithing
#432. The Election Post You Have to Write
#433. Something God never says to us.
#434. Gross Food Related Youth Group Games
#435. Holding church in odd locations.
#436. Arguing about giving from gross or net.
#437. Living better or new?
#438. Refusing to let people borrow your pen in church.
#439. The church offering envelope.
#440. Not knowing what to do with yoga.
#441. Claiming songs from the 80′s for Jesus. (Or “I yell at Cyndi Lauper”)
#442. Teaching yourself to breathe underwater.
Remix #32. Lasers instead of stained glass.
#444. Avoiding Your Favorite Christian Radio Station Like the Plague During Share-a-Thon Week
#445. How Christian is Your Cubicle?
#446. The Secular Culture Parental Filter or “How I almost got to listen to Europe.”
#447. The Jelly Bellies of Christendom.
#448. Judging people that use iPhones during church.
A Chrismas Classic – #173. Dear Crock Pot, a Love Letter
#449. Wondering if God is enough.
#450. Breaking the Chains
#451. The 7 Sports Myths Christians Like
#452. Leg dropping elves. (Or the real meaning of Christmas)
#453. A hate mail mongoose. (Or the Pastor’s Gift Guide.)
#454. Wishing faith was convenient.
Ninja Stars and Candles – Remix #176. Giving open flames to kids on Christmas Eve.
#455. How Christmawesome is your Christmas Sweater?
#456. Christmas Shoes, Greatest Song Ever?
#457. My jail mustache (Or giving people three gifts this year)
#458. Fixing our motives.
Kinky Lingerie for Missionaries or Remix #303 – Donating Junk to the Church
#459. Women’s Ministry Christmas Tea
#460. Manger Management
#461. Christmas
#462. Making Christian-Flavored Resolutions
Hate Mail, Haikus & More. It’s the end of the year wrap up.
Psalty, Skittles and the best moment of the year.
#463. Jeff Buckley and the unexplainable.
#464. The official point system of SCL commenter fitness.
#465. 30 Rock is the new Office (and 5 other TV Shows that could be Sermons)
#466. Wearing a Bluetooth earpiece at church.
#467. Great Sex! Flat Abs! And Jesus!
#468. Sharing an email address with your spouse.
#469. Thinking you’re supposed to be a minister.
#470. The American Idol like sermon audition pastoral candidates have to do.
#471. Falling asleep in church.
#472. Wishing every idol was as honest as Harley Davidson.
#473. WOTAM baby, straight up WOTAM. (Christian Text Abbreviations).
#474. Leaving Bibles in the Lost & Found – An Open Letter
#475. Going green for God.
Remix #31. Occasionally Swearing
Bronze baby! Bronze!
#476. Facebook friend suggesting Jesus.
#477. When the pastor calls someone out from the pulpit.
#478. Sitting next to sick people at church.
#479. Critiquing the sermon at lunch.
#480. Guilt trips.
Remix #2. Saying “bless her heart.”
#482. Talking about the end of the world.
#483. Feeling guilty for rooting against the Christian guy in the Super Bowl.
#484. When people you are witnessing to think you are hitting on them.
#485. Making your church smell so fresh and so clean.
#486. Finding God in nature.
Remix #154. Breaking up after a retreat.
#488. Planting new churches.
#489. Not knowing how to drop a kid off at Sunday School.
Remix #47. Rooting for secret Christians on American Idol.
#490. Giving people the easy stuff.
#491. Saying “let’s pray” when you mean “let’s make out.”
#492. Creative Niche Ministry Groups.
#493. Getting single people married as fast as possible.
#494. Sin Synonyms – Pretty ways to say an ugly word
#495. Wondering if we’re worth anything.
Yo Joe! Remix #228. NIV vs. KJV vs. ESV (Bible wars told via GI Joe)
#496. Crafting the Perfect Christian Dating Profile
#497. Giving your kid a Biblical name.
#498. Finding subtle ways to tell your pastor to “wrap it up.”
#73. Getting caught off guard by divorce.
#499. Having a favorite book of the Bible.
#500. Lists