The Purity was great! Our youth group took about 30 people and there was about 300 people total. Almost everyone made the commitment to stay pure and then we waltzed the rest of the night away. Don’t just take my word for it, check out the slide show!
I recently came across the new edition of Sports Illustrated. I was shocked to see the model on the cover wasn’t even wearing a top. Sports Illustrated escaped indecent exposure by a necklace. Thats right, the the model was wearing a necklace and a thong! I realize that i may be being a bit over descriptive but its because I need everyone to understand something. I am not overreacting because I saw a little too much mid-drift, and while it may have been the infamous swimsuit edition, I refuse to sit by quietly while this is considered acceptable. So I am writing a letter! I am going to write a letter to the editor, about the vulgarity of the recent issue of Sports Illustrated. I realize that the editor will probably discard my letter withoutt completely reading it, but we cannot just stand by and accept this, so I encourage all our readers to write a letter as well, and to continue to pray for America. Remember, a likely chance of failure is still a chance, but to not try at all leaves no hope.
Editors Email: letters@si.timeinc.com
Hey everyone who is in the reno/sparks area should come to the Ever Stays Red, A Rotterdam November, and All day Drive concert on Feb. 28th. The concert is at Jesus Christ Spirit Filled, 3175 Goldy Way, Sparks, 85343. Doors open at 6:30 and it starts at 7. Tickets are $5 at the door. If you want more information please contact (775) 313 - 0712.
Modesty is something that is definitely lacking in our society. I’m not talking about how the prostitutes are starting to dress a little more revealing, I’m talking about the girls that go to church looking like they just walked out of the Candy Shop video. But these young girls will try and say that they are just being “stylish”(because walking around half naked is so “in” right now). Well Modesty doesn’t mean you have to dress like a nun! Modesty doesn’t mean that you have to walk around in tons of clothes either. So how do we define what is Modest? As females we don’t find revealing clothes to be stumbling blocks to our purity, but Modesty isn’t for us. The bible tells us that we are to make sure we don’t do anything to make our fellow Christians stumble. Guys happen to be very visual, and if you walk into church with your junk hanging out the front, it’s going to be very hard for them to focus on Jesus. By being Modest, your respecting your Christian brothers purity so that he will respect yours. So when we get dressed in the morning we need to ask ourselves,”Could my outfit arouse ungodly feelings in guys?”, and then get a second opinion from your dad! Finally, your body is meant to be a gift for your husband, and Modesty is the wrapping. When a gift is wrapped in nice shiny paper it creates anticipation, but there’s nothing exciting about getting a gift wrapped in plastic wrap.
I’ve heard, and used to think that Men objectify Women, but the truth is that Women objectify themselves. I turned on the T.V and saw (what I’m guessing was) Rihanna in concert. She was singing(duh) her hit songs. When she did dance she would do nothing but shake her butt, and the crowd would go wild. You see, Women have accepted being measured by how good we are at arousing ungodly feelings in Men (the world calls this being sexy). So Men have no other option but to view us as nothing more than sex objects. When I think about what some Women have lowered themselves to become, I almost feel ashamed to be a Women. But I won’t let the World steal away the blessing of being a Woman. I pray for the females in or generation…….
So this has nothing to do with purity, but it is on my mind so I will share it. Today in my world cultures class we were learning about the slave trade and imperialism in Africa. We were discussing a poem called “White Man’s burden”, at first I believed this was about slavery, but it ended up being about missionaries. I have noticed that talks about any religion at all in this class are not a good thing, because everyone is very opinionated about it and many of these students do not believe in God and Christianity. Well our teacher informed us that this poem was about Christian missionaries and the responsibility to share the gospel to the people of Africa. This conversation quickly turned into a time of trashing on Christianity. Many people were saying that the poem portrayed that the missionaries were better than the African people. Many people went as far as saying that those butt heads (trust me, this was not the actual word used) shouldn’t be forcing their stupid beliefs on people. Even one of the girls in the class that is supposedly a serious Christian said that no one should try to witness to people, because there are many ways to get to heaven and that we should just leave people alone and let them do what they want.
So basically this slam on evangelism and Christianity went on for a few minutes until the bell rang, but what made me really mad was the fact that I said nothing. Honestly I was too shocked by the awful comments, that I didn’t even know how to respond. After this I felt like such a coward that I didn’t speak up for beliefs, this really frustrated me.
Here is the poem by Rudyard Kipling.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
Send forth the best ye breed–
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild–
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
The savage wars of peace–
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper–
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard–
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:–
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden–
Ye dare not stoop to less–
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
Have done with childish days–
The lightly proferred laurel
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!
We think our society is bad, I just finished reading the book “Brave New World” and I hope our world never gets this obsessed with science. This past month I have been reading this and I have been appalled by what society is at this time. The book portrays how life could be in the future, where everyone takes a drug called “soma” so they are never lonely, everyone sleeps with everyone (this is only between male and female), no one knows of God and Jesus, and where people worship Ford. In this book they treat Ford like a god, but its not like the car company Ford, mainly they just worship the name Ford, its really odd. One of the sayings of the society is “everyone belongs to everyone” there are no commitments. Children are born in a lab and the tittles mother, father, family are grotesque to them. This society knows nothing about God or Jesus, they have never heard of any of it, because the leaders hid it from the people. The whole book is about how the leaders have changed society and they believe they have made it “stable” and that no one will ever be sad or lonely ever again. I just felt like sharing this with everyone, because we always talk about how bad our society is and this made me see that there are many ways it could be way worse!
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I found this video about purity and thought it was funny. I hope it makes you laugh.
I have decided that this generation has many names, but mainly we are the SEX generation. Why are we all so obsessed with sex? It is in everything now a days. It is in almost every movie, song, book, and in everything on tv. I mean come on, why do so many books today have to have sex in them. I’m really not that big into reading but this year I have a reading class and everyday we have to read so I have read a lot lately. I have noticed that a ton of books out there have sex in them, and I’m getting sick of it, if the author isn’t explaining the scene to you, then the characters are talking about it. I’m not trying to make myself sound like one of those holier than thou people who think you are horrible if you talk, listen, or read anything about sex, I’m just saying that why does so much of it have to be everywhere we go. That is the exact reason our generation knows nothing about purity, why many people aren’t striving to be pure, and why it is so hard for us to. Everything makes sex out of marriage sound fun and normal.
The main reason I am ranting and raving about this is because I found out that we have had a lot more views lately and they have been from our tag, sex. At first this made me really excited because we are getting more views, but then I thought about it and this proved my theory about this generation, that we are obsessed with sex. If we aren’t out there having it, then we are joking about it, or talking about it and I am not excluding anyone when I say this. This whole blog is partly about sex. I am not saying that talking about sex is bad, I am saying that talking about it in the wrong way is bad. I just wish it wasn’t everywhere we go.
“Sex does not equal love.” Most people will tell you this and yet they live completely different. A lot of people in our generation use sex to feel a sense of love or validation, but sex is not a way to get love. Sex never = love! In fact, love = sex, when proven by marriage. Sex outside of marriage is the opposite of love, its selfishness. The way to see if someone really loves you, is to tell them you want to wait for marriage. But most people won’t do this because they are afraid of the truth; they would rather fool themselves into thinking they are in “love”. So for all you people who want to know real love, put it through the only test that’ll tell, Purity.
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