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The power ballad worship song.

Aug 26th by Jon
#842.

I grew up reading Thrasher magazine, watching the movie “Rad” as many times possible and listening to the rap group, “Public Enemy.”

Why Thrasher? Cause I was a skateboarder.

Why Rad? Because the title says it all, it was rad.

Why Public Enemy? Because growing up on the mean streets of suburban Massachusetts really prepared me for hard laced, urban rap. Clearly.

Given my love for the hip hop, I’m lacking the musical background to truly appreciate something I’ve started to notice lately at church though.

The power ballad worship song.

#793.

I don’t know Matt Redman, the singer of Blessed Be Your Name, but I have to imagine he’s somewhere right now wearing solid gold pants, riding an Arabian horse named Montalban on the sandy shores of the Grand Caymans.

That’s if he gets paid per time a church uses his song, because if there’s ever been a stuff Christians like, it’s that song.

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Arguing about the faith of U2.

May 17th by Jon
#772.

U2 is definitely a Christian band. Or they are definitely not. I’m positive it’s one of those two.

It’s hard to be sure, but what I am sure of is that we Christians like debating that. I learned that the hard way when I called the band “NeedtoBreathe,” the “Christian U2.”

#770.

Good service so far. Only felt a modicum of judgment from the people next to me who don’t know I direct deposit my tithe, no one’s asked to borrow my pen and I’m pretty sure I’m going to win the “please turn to” Bible verse race. All in all, pretty good day and here comes a minister to preach. Wait a second. No, this can’t be right, he’s not the preacher, he’s …

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#733.

My four year old, McRae, is at that age where she’s like living with a director’s commentary on a DVD. She narrates everything that happens to her in real time. Like John Cusack telling you what was going on in his mind during that famous boombox scene in “Say Anything” on the bonus commentary, she is constantly providing dialog for what’s happening.

#660.

Can we please put TobyMac in a laboratory somewhere and get him on top of this already? Seriously, lock him and Kirk Franklin and Mandisa and maybe Barlow Girl in a room in Nashville and don’t let them come out until they’ve figured out how Christianity can have their own version of the uber popular dance sensation Lady Gaga.

Why?

I have three reasons we need a Christian Lady Gaga.

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It’s hard to believe we’re already celebrating our second Christmas on Stuff Christians Like. We had a great time last year, my favorite was the elf on the shelf beat down, but it’s almost time to roll out some fresh Christmas flavored ideas.

What Christmas idea is currently missing from Stuff Christians Like?

What funny Christmas event/food/activity/idea needs to be added to the site?

Let’s talk it out in the comments. Five people who comment by Monday, November 23 will win a copy of “Light up the World,” from the Desperation Band. I’ve been listening to it for the last few weeks and think you’ll dig it.

So, what should we talk about this Christmas?

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#654.

The church my dad started in Marlboro, Massachusetts did not feature a “Sit behind Pastor Choir” or SBPC if you will. (I don’t think his new church does either but if you are in the Chapel Hill area you should check it out and verify that.) Until I went to college at Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama I’m not sure I even knew Sit Behind the Pastor Choirs existed.

The first time I saw one in a big church I kept waiting for the pastor to release them to go back to their seats with us civilians. The song was over. Job well done. Move it along. But they just stayed there, perched behind the pastor, frozen in place until the sermon concluded.

At first I tried to ignore them and focus on the message that was being preached or the announcements that were being delivered, but I had a hard time. I’ve never been officially diagnosed as ADD but I probably have at least a smidge of that. Maybe even a dollop. Plus, I was a mess in college and living way outside of God’s will for my life back then. So before long, I started to watch the members of the choir, as if I was tuning into channel WSBPC.

But with choirs that sometimes numbered over 100 it was hard to focus on the whole gang of people up there. So I tended to look for 5 primary types of choir members …

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Deep V-Neck Syndrome (DVS)

Oct 26th by Jon
#644.

Recently, I saw a commercial for a new show on ABC called “V.” I immediately got excited because I thought someone finally had the courage to address a problem that is tearing the church asunder …V Neck

V-necks.

Unfortunately, my enthusiasm was misplaced as the show appears to be about aliens. Fine, ABC, chicken out. Address fictional issues. V-necks however, are fact. And they are terrifying.

If you’re reading this right now and you can feel a slight breeze on your sternum because you’ve rocking a deep v-neck, it might be too late for you. If you’re reading this and thinking, “What’s a v-neck?” there’s still hope for you my friend.

Having recently seen 19 million v-necks at the Catalyst Conference and found myself in stage three of Deep V-Neck Syndrome (DVS) I feel qualified to offer the following caution. Here is how DVS typically goes down:

Booty, God, Booty – Remix

Oct 22nd by Jon
#113.

My three year old daughter McRae and my six year old L.E. both asked if they could put the Stuff Christians Like BGB buttonbuttons on the back of their school backpacks. I said “Sure,” until I realized that the “booty, God, booty” button might not go over well at the Methodist pre-school. I just figured McRae would not be able to explain the wry Christian satire and ultimate message of hope in Christ it represented to a teacher who saw a three year old wearing something that said “booty” on it. Twice. Fair enough.

But then it struck me that I too had done a pretty poor job of explaining where and what the phrase “booty, God, booty” meant. That post came out on April 3rd, 2008 and has been long forgotten under the onslaught of other posts. And lately folks who didn’t see the original post have been asking me, “What the heck is the booty thing?” Worse than that, I recently saw a post on someone’s blog that featured the booty logo and just slammed the whole thing as being directly related to the fall of Western society. (I am summarizing, but that was the gist.)

So here now, to clear up the questions and the confusion, is a remix of the original post that started the whole idea …

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