A convicted man knocks on your door and wants to spend some alone time with our kids, what do we say? Heck no, get out of here before I get my bat!!!! There is no way we would let that type of influence in our lives. We are protective, but what about those TV’s or computers in our teens rooms? What kind of violence, drug use, and sexuality, are pouring there way directly into their hearts and minds? Romans 8:8 says, “Those who are in the flesh cannot please God”, the context of that are non-Christians who pursue the flesh, in the same chapter Paul expresses that “to set the mind on the flesh is death”. Death, flesh produces death. Paul also states in Romans 8 “to set the mind on the Spirit brings life and peace”. Do we want that for our teens? Yes!

Let’s look at our video games, movies, music, computers, cell phones, friends, dumbed-down reading, and dream killers.

“Our job is not only to protect them from the maelstrom of a negative and harmful culture, but also to inspire them to be the ones who dream. We should not be the people who blindly parade into combat against everything about culture in hopes of changing something. It won’t work. But we can and must create a new culture in our family that actually transcends the pop culture so that our kids can clearly discern the difference and be wise enough to avoid being lured in.

We must be careful what we invite into our homes in the name of entertainment.”

Love you all,

_pastor tim