What churches need to do is follow the lead of the Emergent churches that have their ironic hipster versions of awkward singles events like "80s prom." The only way to cover the awkwardness is to somehow put it all out in front.

I can see right now that people are going to have major differences in experience. Here in Missouri, there is very little in the way of Jesus advertising - a billboard here and there, but not too much. I thought we lived in the Bible belt until we visited Arkansas last summer...wow. So yeah, I can see how 'running away' from advertising first might be a priority.

Zac, you make my case in point about people believing something is in the Bible that isn't. You say I "accept Bill O'Reilly as a news program." No, I never said that. I merely pointed out that a lot of people watch him. I never said I even watch him.

As for Jon Stewart, I was just throwing in my opinion that I don't think he's funny, and the apparent phenom of him being taken seriously by uninformed teenagers. I'm glad you can see that he is satire and not real news either :)

Have you ever been vacuuming out your car, and you find some pennies hidden somewhere, and you just suck them up with all the other dirt? I have. Pennies are not worth the space they take up.

I'm with you. I've given so much money to people 'for gas' I can't even count it anymore. I just don't believe them, and it's hard to be generous when you feel like you're being taken for an idiot.

Cody, thanks so much for your candor. Really refreshing. It's tough to be honest with ourselves.

Try to unload your terrible day at work in the car on the way home. Don't come home in a perpetually bad mood every day. If you have to, take five minutes to blow steam off by telling your spouse about your day, but don't take all evening to complain.

You would scan the book one page at a time, being careful to not read it as you scan, in order to reap the convenience of reading it on an oversized iPhone?

What the iPad needs for people like you is a slot you can slide your paper books into like Jack LeLane's Power Juicer. The iPad grinds it up into pulp, and displays it on the screen.

I ordered by copy. I would love to be sitting in my favorite coffee shop with the SCL book, duct taped to the front of an iPad. That would rule.

Josh, better watch yourself, or me and Bryan Allain and the rest of the guest post mafia will find you! ;)