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I looked up my screen name I use to see what was still on the web about me and I found this that I wrote in 2003.

--> I don't post very often. Between work and school and raising my dogs andkeeping up with my friends I don't have a lot of time to answer messages or evenwrite them. I had a long conversation last night with my night staff about the"blackout" and how it related to prophesies in the Bible. The conversationturned to morale issues and how Christians should be walking and talking andliving in our time. Both of us have been in various churches and have seen thesteady decline in what is morally permissible. Anyone can see a morale declinein the lives of the people of our nation between now and 10 years ago, 20 yearsago, 30 years ago. The contrast I want to focus on is as the world steadilydeclines in behavior and permissibility shouldn't the church and individualChristians shine brighter? Unfortunately there is a clear pattern of decline inmany accounts in the old testament showing that as the nations declined inmorality so did it's religious leaders. Priests and leaders succumbed to theperversion that went on around them arguably maybe to a lesser degree but it wasstill wrong in God's eyes. Our moral acceptability has been our weakness as anation that allows expression of self and freedom in almost any form. We allowourselves to let so much gunk come into our lives that it chokes out God'sspirit. The big concern we see is the push of the homosexual agenda. There areso many lesser things that slip by often times unnoticed until it's too late. The movies that we watch and that we allow our families to watch are one. Wetake issue with the violence and the cursing yet how many murders and killinghave you watched in your lifetime? How many rapes? How many sexual acts? Howmany times have we watched witchcraft or magic? or someone stealing or someonedoing anything that we knew was wrong and enjoyed it? Movies are only a smallpart of what we let into our lives. We feed on the news of our nation and 95%of that is negative information. We read the horoscopes and listen to thefortune tellers and tarot card readers who divine the evil spirits forinformation? If it doesn't come from God where does it come from? Themagazines and newspapers we read are full of negative images and information. How often do we listen to unChristlike music? Have you listened to the words ofyour favorite songs? Are they edifying and lifting up God or a fellowChristian? How many men are addicted to porn? Physically what are you lettinginto your body? Do you smoke? Drink excessive alcohol? Take too many over thecounter or prescription drugs? Addicted to caffeine? Are you a gluttonfeasting after every church service (I am)? Lest you think that I'm onlypreaching to you I'm ministering to myself. There are sooooo many areas where Ididn't even know I was falling short. I am a Christian and I am in ministry butI also am a man and I struggle with many of the temptations that are common tomen. I just wanted to put out some things to think on because it would be aterrible thing for you to have spent all your life thinking that you were thecream of the crop only to find out that your life is based on the immorality of the world.