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By March 13, 2008Blog


OK, so I was reading my friend Dave’s blog (he’s from Canada!), and on his blog he mentioned a “list” he had found entitled “Stuff White People Like.” It’s hysterical. And I’ve decided to steal the idea. Or borrow it. This will be the first installment of an ongoing blog post called… “Stuff Christians Like.”

Please feel free to add your own ideas to this (potentially) limitless list…

1) That story about how candy canes came to be.
2) Gold, the color
3) Bibles with large margins
4) Wal-mart
5) Little Debbie snack cakes
6) “Welcome Home” doormats
7) Naming their children Judah, Noah, Grace, or Trinity
8) Circumcision
9) Baby sheep
10) Grape juice and pita bread
11) Athletes that drop namedrop Jesus
12) “Bless your heart”
13) Highlighters
14) The crockpot
15) Lighthouses
16) Praise songs that feature Jewish rhythms
17) “Should the Lord tary.”
18) Andy Griffith
19) Ronald Reagan
20) Being bi (vocational, that is)
21) Natural family planning and home schooling
22) “God, put a hedge of protection around me…” (Is that like a shrub?)
23) Patriotic songs
24) “I’ll put that on my prayer list.”
25) The NRA
26) Book covers featuring “Prairie” women with wind-blown hair
27) Moral conclusions
28) Acronyms!
29) Their wedding nights
30) Jewelry that also serves as some kind of “faithful” reminder (“I was totally just going to have premarital sex with my boyfriend! But then God directed my eyes down toward the $29 ring on my left hand, and I immediately got out of that bed and put my clothes back on. That’s a true story.”)
31) Quoting America’s Founding Fathers
32) Feeling jet lag from a mission trip
33) Precious Moments (those teardrop eyes will get you every time!)
34) Counting f-words in movies
35) Connie Sellecca
36) Huddling around bibles at Starbucks
37) Visine
38) Using “war language” to describe the Christian life
39) The scent of lilac at funerals or around Easter
40) Certificates of Appreciation (“Oh boy! Look what I got! I can’t wait to hang this plastic frame up in my office. Now, everybody will know how great of a Sunday school teacher I’ve been.”)
41) Christian Haunted Houses! (Scare the hell out of ya!)
42) Folding chairs with three-letter acronyms written on the bottom (always ending in the letter C) People steal those things! When I was a kid, we had at least three or four of them at our house.
43) Darwin jokes
44) Pretending to be Israel’s best friends!
45) Biblical numerology (The number 7 is God’s perfect number. Do you know how many times Jesus mentions the number 3? Like a billion.)
46) Home Interior Parties
47) “Vice President Huckabee” (Mmm.)
48) “It’s Adam and Eve, not…”
49) Anne of Green Gables
50) Poems written by blind and deaf people
51) One word: Concordance
52) Tupperware
53) 15-passenger vans
54) The Ice cream Sundae bar at the Golden Coral
55) Wearing leather sandals with socks
56) American made automobiles (unless, of course, it’s a Honda Civic)
57) “Jesus Take the Wheel” (Seriously, Jesus drives.)
58) Electronic drum kits
59) Clip art (Nothing doctors up the church bulletin like a little cartoon man holding a sign with the words “Prayer Sunday’s Coming!”)
60) Fourteen-year old ballerinas dancing to “I Can Only Imagine” (So cute.)
61) Feeling naughty after thinking the word, “damn.”

That’s my list so far… have any of your own to add?

MY LIST CONTINUES HERE

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Join the discussion 17 Comments

  • Dave Carrol says:

    -The first time someone says they have a “word” for you and the paper says Ezekiel 23:20

    -Actions to songs

    -overheads

    -Scaring people about Africa

    -Orange Drink and Nanimo Bars

  • Aaron says:

    Hairspray….the product, not the play.

    Pictures of them holding poor kids while on missions trips.

    TBN. ‘Nuff said.

    Clothes from 1994.

    “Bless your heart.”

  • Chris Hyde says:

    Ooohhh…I LOVE this post! Way to go!

    How about…

    “I’ll pray about it.”

    “I’ll pray for you.”

    Potlucks

    “I don’t want to gossip, but…”

    Christian Fish on your car eating a Darwin Fish

    Questioning how any real Christian could be a Democrat

    Fox News

  • Wow, what else do Christians like…
    I think I will have to ponder this and write one of my own, with serious definitions attached.

  • figuring out who God hates?

  • Having their own bookstores and radio stations.

  • Jason says:

    This is awesome. I just posted the white people post on my blog this morning.

    – Oprah

    – Turning famous logos into. “Christian” t-shirts.

    – Memorizing Bible verses.

    – Quoting scripture to “win” arguments.

    – Girl scout cookies

    – Any kind of Rally

    – Hand Clapping

    – KFC at a Potluck

    – BLOGS

    Great post!

  • Dave Carrol says:

    CANADIAN Christians love:

    – Swiss Chalet

    – Ball Hockey Tourney’s

    – Tim Horton’s “we should meet for coffee” meetings

    – Scolding kids for wearing their toques in the house of the Lord

    – Ice fights

    – Tisking Americans

  • mammaren says:

    Funny.. But I don’t like circumcision..

  • I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SITE!

    – “It’s a God Thing”..or ‘thang’ if you live in Texas

    -“press into Him” (how exactly do you do that?)

    -“Be Blessed”(I am just wondering how I cause myself to be blessed…or are they causing me to be blessed or is that dependent upon if someone actually says that to me? If so am I not blessed…I’m confused are you?)

    -Plasma screens in their bathrooms (beats the heck outta bulletins, right?)

  • Jason Grant says:

    “facing the giants” God I hate that movie…

    so therefore, Christians also like bad acting and an un-Biblical faith lesson

  • Matt says:

    You know, it’s interesting because working at a Christian bookstore for nearly three years, I’ve encountered all of these at least once (seriously – I once had to listen to a co-worker go on a tirade because the film Home Alone had a couple of mild curse words).

    As for 23, it baffles me exactly HOW many of these books actually exist. That, and books that take place in Amish settings. Is there something about the Amish lifestyle that appeals to Christian ladies that I just don’t get?

    -M

  • -“travelling mercies”

  • Anonymous says:

    -Acoustic guitars
    -lunch/dinner after a sermon

  • LAactress says:

    – bowling

    – veggie tales

    – bonfires

    – riffing in worship songs

    – being born again… and again… and again, and again…

    – Everyday prayer calendars

    – Tattoos of crosses and/or bible versus

    – Bible sparknotes

    – Macaroni Angel Ornaments

    – Things that say WWJD

    – skits with christian messages

  • jesspatton says:

    have you checked out this website?

    http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/

    There’s some funny stuff to go along with your list!!

  • Anonymous says:

    -Telling everyone how much you LOVED reading “The Shack”…which, in my opinion, is one of the most poorly written novels ever produced.