Ansible-One

Wednesday night Bible Study has been an awesome series diving into Daniel.  If you are interested in hearing it, the majority of the lessons are on www.fbcfb.org under Ministries\Audio.  I will try to add the more recent items over the next few days.

After seeing the bumper stickers yesterday, and hearing the message last night, I decided to skim through our TV channel line up to see just how bad things are.  My criteria was fairly strick.  If the show had cussing, suggestive content, violent content, or anything that I as a Christian father would consider detrimental, I would moved to the next channel.

I know this isn’t exactly scientific, but I skimmed through the channels hoping…for something.  On the TV, note that I disabled all of the spanish, government, local, and PTL channels.  So out of a possible 70 or so stations, the TV would hit maybe 45 or so.

Starting on 3, cussing.  4, fowl humor and cussing. 5, news, violent crime reports. 7, sitcom with suggestive content. 8, news, violence, 9, sitcom with with even more suggestive content.  It had been maybe 2 minutes and I had almost cleared the network TV stations.

By the time I got to cable, the content was even worse.  What am I suppose to do?  How can I combat this?  As an American the first thought is with my money.  I can show I don’t want it by not paying for it.  So I called the cable company on a mission to find out how much it would cost to drop cable TV and keep the internet.

The costs would increase!  Needless to say, we are keeping the setup we have, but we will be changing some things around the house.  Its kinda funny.  I told the sales rep that we were tired of the content that is being distributed.  That it is full of material I don’t want to see or let my family see.  That the only station that I was able to stop on last night was the Weather Channel.

His reponse was this.  “Well, I know what you mean.  But at least there are channels like Discovery and History that have good content.”

Really?!  I told him they couldn’t even stand up to the standard I was expecting.  Those channels are some of the worst.  They constantly bombard the watcher with material they state as fact like, the big bang started it all, or crime shows with bloodied bodies and violent reinactments.  They fail my test in a big way.

As high as my standards are, I know that God’s standards are higher and impossible for me to live up to.  But I try.  I try to do what He wants.

Thank you, Lord, for loving me and forgiving me even when I fail.

Seems that society is picking up steam as it heads into the gutter.

Why!?  Why!?  Why!?

Why do we have be constantly bombarded by sinful trash.  My family is focused living Christian lives and we are doing our best to teach our son those values.  What scares me however, is how our culture has made it a point to ram sinfulness down our throats.

Wifey sent me a post on Yahoo of how a TV star’s wife is having a baby.  Ahh.  Buy wait, the star is a woman.  Sooo…ya.  Well, surprise, that is yet another program will not watch.  But what difference does it make.  When Christians teach that homosexuality is sinful, society then make Christians into the bad guys!  There are churches…many churches that are side stepping this issue now.  The are some that are basically looking away and contexting their way out of telling people they are doing something that God says is evil.

We are commanded to love.  But what do they think love is?

We should be praying for our children of our society.  So that they will have the eyes and ears see and hear the Truth and not be molded by the media and the sin that surrounds them.

So what IS happening to our morality?  Welcome to my little rant and investigation into why people believe the sin they are engaging in is right and normal.  God is very clear about what sin is and what it means to us here and now and in our life after death.

A recent news article sent to me by a friend wrote about two homosexual women and their disagreement for being stopped in the public display of affection for one another.  Has our society here and even globally declined to the point that attitudes and feelings of the majority are completely drowned out by the shrill whining of the minority?