Thursday, April 30, 2009

Blasphemy! What Christians Should Not Over Look!

I came across this article that really hit me... take a look.

Did you know that there was a time when the entertainment industry was bound by a code that forbade them from using any blasphemy in a movie? The “Hays Code” stated:

Pointed profanity--this includes the words “God,” “Lord,” “Jesus,” “Christ” (unless used reverently), “Hell,” “S.O.B.,” “damn,” or every other profane or vulgar expression, however used--is forbidden.

Hollywood is no longer restricted by the code. Many of today's movies don't simply blaspheme the name of Jesus. They go one further. For example, the award-winning Blow, directed by Ted Demme, is a typical R-rated film. The name of Jesus Christ is blasphemed eleven times in the movie. Three of those times, for some reason, the "F" word is used in the middle of His name.

So, how can you (as one person), make a difference and influence the powerful Goliath of the entertainment industry? The answer is in your own hands. In 2005, roughly $8.8 billion was spent on movie tickets in the U.S. How much of $8.8 billion do you think came from those who call themselves Christians? According to The Barna Group, it was a massive $6.94 billion. Over 70% of the box office intake comes from people of faith.

With more than 170 million professing Christians in America, we have a sling that has the power to hit the “dark side” of Hollywood between the eyes and leave a deep impression on its money-making mind. Simply stop paying to see blasphemous movies and support the ones you know are good. My goal isn't to clean up movies. That will never happen unless there is a Christian revival in Hollywood. In the meantime, I just want them to stop their blasphemy. They are causing an entire generation to hate Christianity, and to use the name of Jesus Christ to express disgust.

It’s become popular for church websites to give a little insight into the pastor’s likes and dislikes, so that you can get to know him better and perhaps imitate him. On one site, when the senior pastor is asked about his favorite movie, he says, “Tough one; I’m a movie freak -- used to be Lost Boys (vampire movie) . . . I like anything intense, brutal, mind-bending, etc.” His associate one-ups him. He answers, “Snatch with Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro. Great film if you can get past the 493 F-bombs!” Apparently he got past them without a problem. Actually, he was exaggerating a little when he said that the movie used “F” word 493 times. I located the original script and counted each time the word was used. It was used 156 times, and the name of Jesus was blasphemed 11 times.

Only once in Scripture do we see that Jesus was violent. He was so zealous for God’s name and to clean up the House of God that He tipped over the tables of the greedy money-changers. Let’s do the same. Let’s upend the sales at the box office of every movie that even slightly smells of blasphemy.



We Must Glorify God With Everything We Do!
"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God"
1 Corinthians 10-31





Wednesday, April 15, 2009

My Testimony

Well all through high school i was just goin farther and farther in the wrong path, partying, drinking, sex ah so bad. well when i moved into my own apartment i saw this 3F sticker EVERYWHERE and was on a car next to mine, so i researched and found that it was a church. well i started talking to a girl that went there and invited me for a couple weeks and i never went...then one week i decided to go. about 2 weeks later i told her i want to get baptized so she hooked me up with this guy named steven. so we went to lunch and talked a little bit then he asked if i was interested in getting baptized and i said yes and he was all...well why? at that point i didnt know i thought it just felt right. he then went through the law with me and what it trually means to be saved. as he was going through the law with me god was working on my heart..at the end of the convo i totally broke down, never have i broke down in front of a compleat stranger. god was workin on me harrd, he then told me he was gunna leave me alone and when i was ready to meet him at the church to give me a bible. well we continued to meet up and about 2 weeks later i called him and said i need to see you, we met up and i told him i was saved! GOD SAVED ME! i need to get baptized so that weekend i was batpized. through the convos we had he had told me we are not saved by baptizm we are saved by god and being baptized was being obediant to god because we are saved. now he is one of my best friends and we meet up all the time going through scrpture and growing in christ. all praise be to god ive been saved for 4 months! Gunna stay pure gunna walk with christ and be thee most godly man i can be growing in faith so when god brings we a wife we can both grow in christ and i can be the husband i need do be! I now pick up my cross and follow Christ our God!

John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me drawns him."

Monday, April 13, 2009