My good friends Jenny and Sarah gave me these little shorts for Remy. I had to share them because they are so cute :0)
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Cute little bottom
My good friends Jenny and Sarah gave me these little shorts for Remy. I had to share them because they are so cute :0)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
You're a missionary
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world.
Thomas Chalmers
Thomas Chalmers
Easter vs Christmas...
How has Easter managed avoid being swallowed up by commercialism like Christmas has been? Here is a wonderful post that answers the question and makes you think.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Commercials and Coveting
Here is a quote by Richard Winters that our pastor used in his sermon on Sunday...
What does the advertising industry do to you? It wants its endless commercials and catalogs to breed in you dissatisfaction and discontent with your house, your car, your body, your clothes -- in other words, to stimulate in you a desire for more than you have. In old-fashioned biblical language it inspires you to covet. It promised you satisfaction, peace, meaning and happiness, but only if you get your needs met now.
The entertainment industry -- movies, videos, sports, commercials, television shows -- elbows its way into your home. All your needs can be met, at least for a while: Hungry? Order a pizza. Bored? Rent a video. Lustful? . . . And for a while these things make us feel alive and satisfied, but soon the same desires resurface. Thomas Aquinas would have said that such people suffer from "a roaming unrest of spirit."
It is estimated that by the age of twenty many young people have seen well over one million commercials. From advertisements, says Phipher, children learn "that they are the most important person in the universe, that impulses should not be denied, that pain should not be tolerated and that the cure for any kind of pain is a product. They learn a weird mix of dissatisfaction and entitlement. With the messages of ads, we are socializing children to be self-centered, impulsive and addicted."
What does the advertising industry do to you? It wants its endless commercials and catalogs to breed in you dissatisfaction and discontent with your house, your car, your body, your clothes -- in other words, to stimulate in you a desire for more than you have. In old-fashioned biblical language it inspires you to covet. It promised you satisfaction, peace, meaning and happiness, but only if you get your needs met now.
The entertainment industry -- movies, videos, sports, commercials, television shows -- elbows its way into your home. All your needs can be met, at least for a while: Hungry? Order a pizza. Bored? Rent a video. Lustful? . . . And for a while these things make us feel alive and satisfied, but soon the same desires resurface. Thomas Aquinas would have said that such people suffer from "a roaming unrest of spirit."
It is estimated that by the age of twenty many young people have seen well over one million commercials. From advertisements, says Phipher, children learn "that they are the most important person in the universe, that impulses should not be denied, that pain should not be tolerated and that the cure for any kind of pain is a product. They learn a weird mix of dissatisfaction and entitlement. With the messages of ads, we are socializing children to be self-centered, impulsive and addicted."
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