Two great recent "Stuff Christians Like" posts

If you aren't following Jon Acuff and his Stuff Christians Like blog, you need to be. It's the perfect blend of humor and spiritual challenging. Two recent posts caught my eye recently. On February 1st, Acuff wrote "When Lil' Wayne defines the gospel". See, Lil' Wayne spent some time in jail recently and apparently among the things he did to pass the time, one was reading the bible "cover-to-cover".

“It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up becoming that. Like he’d be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool.”

What a great description of the gospel. “Some character was once this, but ended up becoming that.” I was lost, but now I am found. I was once blind, but now I see.

Certainly that's not the best explanation of the gospel I've ever heard (no mention of sin or whether Lil' Wayne recognizes his own need for forgiveness). But I like Acuff's point!

I’m saying that I love it when God gets an unexpected shout out. And that I could crush Lil’ Wayne at UNO.

This wasn't the old and tired "I thank God for this award" stuff you hear out of celebrities. Lil' Wayne, in his own way, was speaking of how Jesus changes lives from the inside out.

The next post that caught my eye was also about a music artist, the teen sensation Justin Beiber, or "the Beiber" or "the Beibs". Apparently the dude not only has a movie but a Bible study to go with it. I'll let you read the rest for yourself.