Daily Devotional

Are you irregular or weak in how you spend time daily with God? Do you want to begin to change that aspect of your life?

Lots of great devotional guides exist, but a great place to start is with "Our Daily Bread." It is a devotional guide I used quite often during my college years and enjoyed greatly.

It is accessible in a variety of ways:

• Website
• Email
• RSS (Really Simple Syndication, Web Aggregator...updates you on website changes)
• Purchase (they will send you a sample)

Lots of other great daily devotionals are available through crosswalk.com HERE.

Music Choices

Should a Christian listen to secular music?

That is the question of the week posed by gotquestions.org.

In answering that question, they advocate looking at three aspects of the music:

1. The purpose of music.
2. The style of music.
3. The content of the lyrics.

They especially spend some time evaluating the content aspect to the music we choose to listen to, referring to two particular verses:

Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things.”

2 Corinthians 10:5 "take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ."

Our decision process in choosing music is similar to how we should go about evaluating all entertainment that we expose ourselves and others to. Are we too conformed to the pattern of this world? If we are, we may find ourselves unable to test and approve what God's will is...

Romans 12:2 "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

Computer Resources for Parents

Parents, here are two good resources for protecting your children from the hazards and dangers of the Internet:

Eblaster - (quoted from site below) - "eBlaster is the most dependable, full-featured remote surveillance product available from the worldwide leader in Internet monitoring software."

Safe Eyes - (quoted from site below)- "Safe Eyes is the # 1 rated Internet parental control software that allows parents to determine how their children use the Internet."

I found these resources from Vicki Courtney's website. Don't know who she is? She is a well-known Christian author who specifically targets teenage girls and their parents through her resources. At church we are starting a study for High School girls titled "His Girl" and in the Spring the women's ministry is bringing her to Severns Valley BC on April 18th, 2009.

Do you currently use a filtering or monitoring software for your home or work computer? Email me to share it with others...