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About a month ago, I opened up a can of worms that I intend to keep open for awhile—even as I open up other cans along the way.  Basically, I said that music was the most overlooked tool of the devil used against the church and our culture today.  I called it the stealth American plague because of its power to destroy us without us knowing it.  And I believe this whole-heartedly.   So, I’ll give you another paragraph to chew on until next time.  First thing we must understand is that a spiritual realm exists, and that music is a deeply spiritual thing.  We must also understand that we are in the midst of a spiritual war—a war all around us between the forces of good and evil, as well as the war inside us between our spiritual nature and our fleshly nature.  Scripture is clear on this.  For those who struggle with all of this, ask yourself a few questions.  Continue Reading »

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Many years ago in Europe, a plague wiped out a great percentage of the European population.  At the time, it was unknown as to its origin.  We now know it was from rats.  Today, America suffers from another type of plague; but, It’s a much slower death.  And even though physical death is often the end result, its the spiritual death that concerns me even more.  The cause of this plague is probably the most overlooked problem facing the church today–certainly the culture.  We talk about the negative affects of sex, drugs, and rock and roll on our kids and culture as if they are things that are nicely naughty.  Continue Reading »

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Of course, beyond music there are all the other forms of cultural influences that are poisoning our kids today.  Girls in particular are falling victim.  Has anyone notice an over-aggressive attitude in girls today?  Our phones and personal observations aren’t the only indicators.  While attending a national conference recently, it was confirmed to me that today’s girls, in fact, ARE, more aggressive.  Studies show that, over time, their bio-chemistries are actually being changed by an over-stimulation of sex and violence brought on by a culture that is exposing and pleasuring itself to death with electronic stimuli in these areas.  This is perhaps the reason that females are now rapidly closing the gap on males when it comes to the percentages of those addicted to internet pornopgaphy.  I preach until I’m blue in the face to a generation that doesn’t want to believe that music, screen images (TV, internet, movies, etc) and other forms of negative stimuli and media that our kids are exposed to regularly today, are having an adverse affect on themspiritually, emotionally. attitudinally, psychologically, and even physically.  Now it is confirmed with sscience.  Maybe that’s why Madonna won’t let her own kids watch TV.  Maybe that’s why we should better monitor what our own kids watch and listen to.

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Music is a deeply spiritual thing. We have always known that. Kids will surrender sex and drugs long before surrendering their music, because their music defines them. To them, it is what the family name used to be. However, much of their music is harming them in the same way, and perhaps even worse than, the multitude of other sinful activities available and acceptable to American teens today. We have always exposed the positive and negative dynamics of music to our kids. And have also seen a direct corrolation between their unwillingness to relinquish unhealthy music and recidivism. But, not until this past year have we had a music class as part of our daily curriculum. Continue Reading »

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