Peace on Earth
January 8, 2011 at 2:11 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abortion, agenda, America, angel, answer, ateasetees, attitude, bells, best life now, Bible, bold, Bono, carbon, Catholic, chimes, Christian, Christmas, church, clique, comfort, compromise, Congress, darkness, death, Do They Know It's Christmastime At All, doom, double standard, dread, drugs, ESV, faith, false, family, fear, feed the world, food, George Michael, gift, glass, God, goodwill, gospel, gossip, grace, hell, help, holiday, holy, hope, image, Israel, Jehovah's Witness, Jesus, jet, joy, judgment, kindness, KJV, law, life, light, love, lyrics, marriage, material, memo, mercy, mission trip, money, moral, Mormon, murder, NASB, nation, need, Obama, office, pastor, peace, peace on earth, play, positive, prayer, preach, premise, problem, rain, rebel, reincarnation, repent, river, ruin, sale, salvation, scripture, sermon, sex, shade, sin, smile, socks, song, sovereign, squalor, sun, switch, tears, ten commandments, Textus Receptus, theology, thinking, toys, truth, U2, well-pleased, work, works, world, wretch
The Christmas season is winding down (for me it really isn’t over til after the new year) and, in an effort to keep from completely ruining your Christmas joy, I’ve held onto this until after the holiday was over. I also wanted to see what everyone said during the week leading up to Christmas. I have been thinking more (wait! don’t go yet…) and there have been a few loose threads that I’ve been following. Oddly enough, when I began to think about the threads, they all seem to be interconnected. I’m going to go through them and would love to hear your thoughts on these different topics.
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about comes from the songs that I’ve heard played over the Christmas holiday season. Things that talk about goodwill, peace on earth, and kindness. One that I heard very often throughout the weeks leading up to Christmas was the song Do They Know It’s Christmas Time At All. In case you haven’t heard it (although there are a number of remakes on Youtube), here is the original:
Influence
May 24, 2010 at 5:26 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: academia, advertisement, America, ancestors, ateasetees, Bible, blasphemy, cabinets, car, CD, character, Christian, Christmas, church, clothes, complacent, compromise, computer, credit cards, days, death, debt, desensitize, doctrine, El, Eli, Elohim, Elvis, encourage, entertain, enticement, evangelism, evil, evolution, exclusivity, fact, faith, false, Fear Factor, feel, giveaways, glory, God, gospel, grace, hate, hear, hell, herd mentality, history, holy, homosexual, hope, house, idolatry, immorality, influence, interest, Islam, Israel, iTunes, Jesus, judgment, lackluster, law, lawn, life, love, lyrics, magazine, manicure, marriage, mercy, mock, money, morality, movies, murder, name, New Testament, Old Testament, one night stand, party, pastor, peace, Pharisees, prayer, preacher, radio, rape, repent, sacrifice, salvation, science, scripture, secular, see, seeker sensitive, set apart, sin, smell, song, sports, stats, study, stunts, swimwear, taste, teams, ten commandments, theology, tights, toys, Trinity, truth, TV, unsaved, violence, vulgarity, watery, weak, weight loss, world, worldview, wrath, writing, Yahweh
The influence of music, movies, advertising, and other media forms has become so pervasive that we hardly even notice it anymore. We have become desensitized to it. We hardly realize that we are not making the choices anymore. Add to this the “herd mentality” where friends and family are acting on this influence and it becomes even stronger. We seem to be in full control of our decisions, and fail to recognize the influence that the environment around us – the things we see, hear, smell, taste and feel – has such a profound influence on what we say and do. Continue Reading Influence…
