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12 years ago @ tylerstanton.com - Photographs · 0 replies · +1 points

Picking a favorite Nintendo games sort of feels like picking a favorite child. I really loved Super Mario Bros 1, 2, 3. 3 was probably my fav.

12 years ago @ tylerstanton.com - 5 Questions You've Nev... · 0 replies · +2 points

Love this! And now we finally know the situation behind that picture. I have to say, I had to rewatch it because at first I thought you asked what Jon would name his "mailbox" company.

12 years ago @ tylerstanton.com - Caption Please. · 0 replies · +1 points

Jon: No, really, I used to be a hand model! See how great my hands look against this red background?

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - Getting the bus all wr... · 0 replies · +5 points

I'm glad that Jesus loves us no matter who we are. He loves us if we're an outsider who's suffering, and he loves us if our lives are being transformed into something great by him. I sometimes have to remind myself that Jesus won't start loving me less when I start to get healed from my pain and am no longer the complete mess I was. Jesus isn't looking for a project that he can fix and then move on to the next project. I think that's just as important as realizing that he loves the lost and broken. His love just gets better and better.

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - Putting the wrong Bibl... · 1 reply · +2 points

My world has just shifted. My brain hurts. Chocolate smarties? It just seems wrong on so many levels! Smarties are pastel, sugary, and definitely not chocolate.

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - 1st look at my new book! · 0 replies · +2 points

Jon Acuff humor with Dave Ramsey financial wisdom? That's a winner right there! I'm really excited! And can I just say that I love it when God does crazy things in people's lives? It gives me hope that crazy awesome stuff can happen in my life, too. :)

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - Leaving church before ... · 0 replies · +3 points

I've left on occasion because of scheduling reasons. Sometimes when I'm running the lights I leave the booth and sit with the congregation for the sermon, so then I have to leave early or the minute the sermon ends to head back up to the booth.

In college, chapel was supposed to go from 11-11:50am, but the speakers (lots of different ones) would regularly go until noon. I was often polite enough to wait until the formal dismissal to leave, but during my last year there I was having a "mad at God" phase, so I would book it the minute I was no longer obligated to be there. At least I never slashed and dashed (checking in with my ID but not actually attending chapel).

Jon, it would take a herd of wild rhinocerasauruses to make me leave one of your speaking engagements early. I know all the best jokes are going to be at the end, and that's all anyone would talk about, and I would feel horribly left out.

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - Listening to devil music. · 0 replies · +2 points

I remember once getting a lecture from a parent about church because we (I think we were in fifth or sixth grade) had been listening to Hanson, and the parent thought that the lyrics were about sex. It was super awkward, especially because the song was not about sex at all. That's the closest I ever got to lectures on my music.

I have several friends whose husbands were in a screamo Christian band together before two of them moved away. I think they were called "A Blessed Tragedy." I was offered one of their CDs by a friend, and while I totally support his passion, I had to admit that it's just not my style.

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - The rarest church musi... · 0 replies · +1 points

When I was really young, we had a piano and an organ on Sunday morning. Now it's pretty much a typical rock band setup.

I can't think of an organist without thinking of the movie Bach and Broccoli. I loved that movie so much as a kid! Also, Jon gets major bonus points for referencing Phantom. :)

13 years ago @ Stuff Christians Like ... - Having 2 Gods. · 0 replies · +2 points

I've been a Christian for most of my life, and it's only very recently (like maybe the last 10 months) that I've started seeing the "pre-crucifixion" side of God. For most of my life the picture of God inside my head was an angry God who loved me less when I screwed up. It's only now that I can have someone talk to me about God's love and I believe it and don't break down crying because it hurts so much that I can't believe it.

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