More Nudity and Profanity Coming To Your Kid's TV Viewing Time

If you haven't already shut off your cable and thrown away your "rabbit ears", you might want to do so immediately... This is sick, but is it really surprising?

From Fox News

If you thought that our television channels were already saturated with enough sex, vulgarity and profanity, you may want to brace yourself – the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing changes to its guidelines that would allow more racy content to infiltrate the small screen during hours when kids could tune in.

A public notice posted on the regulatory agency’s website last month said that FCC is launching a review that may end the prohibition of expletives and certain images of nudity on television. The FCC had first given the public until May 20 to weigh in on the hot-button issue, but that deadline was recently extended to June 19.

And in overwhelming numbers, Americans have been quick to express their outrage over the potential changes, which could pave the way to more adult themes on prime-time programs. The FCC has received almost 95,000 comments on this proposal, whereas the next highest active proceeding has a mere 320 comments.

“Today’s television programming already goes well beyond the content parameters most parents find acceptable. No parent, after watching a program with their children says, ‘you know, that sure would have been a better program if they’d only thrown some nudity and profanity in there,’” said Bryan Fischer, director of issues analysis at the American Family Association. “The pressure is coming from the broadcast networks, who don’t want to be accountable to anyone for content. But the airwaves are owned by the American people, and the FCC is supposed to be a responsible steward of the airwaves for their true owners.”

So what exactly would the potential changes mean?

“Prime time television will start looking more like cable television in terms of language and content,” John Conway, entertainment attorney and CEO of Astonish Media Group, told FOX 411’s Pop Tarts column. “I’m sure networks will test limits for ratings as they do now, but I think the American public will keep the worst outrages in check as they do now.”

And in an Opinion piece for FoxNews.com last week, Penny Young Nance – who most recently served as President of Nance and Associates and as Special Adviser for the FCC – stated that it was “unfathomable to think the FCC actually wants to allow more filth, such as frontal female nudity, the F-bomb, and the ‘S’ word on broadcast television during hours when our kids will be watching and listening.”

The Parents Television Council (PTC) is expressing concern over the FCC’s proposal, as well. The organization declared last week “#NoIndecencyFCC Week,” and encouraged the public to file comments to the Commission and tweet their concerns.

The PTC, along with a 75 member coalition representing millions of Americans, also sent a letter to members of the U.S Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the U.S House Committee on Energy and Commerce, urging them to oppose the FCC’s proposed amendments to weaken enforcement of the broadcast indecency law.

“There’s an enormous amount of TV content that parents are going to find problematic, offensive or even harmful to their children. The broadcast indecency law is only meant to deal with the worst of the worst TV and radio content to begin with and now the FCC says it doesn’t even want to deal with that,” said Dan Isett, director of public policy for the PTC.

“It would be grossly irresponsible for the FCC to allow this. If the FCC drops the standard, the networks will give us all the profanity and nudity they think they can get away with, and they’d just keep pushing the envelope,” Fischer added.

On that note, there is some concern that if the changes pass, the increase in lewd and body-baring programming could have long-term effects on young viewers.

“We can debate what those effects are, but we know that the harm exists,” Isett insisted.

However, Conway argued that the projected deregulation probably would not be any more detrimental to children that what is already being showed in movies, cable, videogame, the Internet and other media outlets.

“If there is harm being done, it is probably already being done elsewhere,” he said.

But if there is a silver lining to be found in the proposed changes, Jim Steyer, CEO and Founder of Common Sense Media – an organization that seeks to provide families with trustworthy information and education – said the changes could encourage parents to be more aware of what their kids are watching.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/05/21/fcc-proposing-to-allow-more-sex-and-profanity-during-kids-television-viewing/#ixzz2Tz4FHbrJ

Where Was God During The Tornado?

Let me post this disclaimer first: It's easy for me to post this when I am over 100 miles away from the path of destruction that took place in OKC yesterday. If I was walking around with no home, one of my children were dead, and maybe both.. It would be much much harder. That's where the true test comes, and I am not convinced I would pass with flying colors.



The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. -- Psalm 90:10

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him -- Job13:15

Yesterday a massive tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma. A suburb of Oklahoma City. I live in Wichita, KS. Sunday afternoon myself, my fiance and my future step-daughter huddled in the bathtub as a potentially lethal tornado started to form in SW Wichita but then lifted just as quickly. When you are in shelter like that, you don't know what is happening outside. You have no idea if a major tornado is forming or if it's all clear. So you pray just the same as if your life may be in danger.

So the question is.. Where is God when unspeakable tragedy happens?

The answer is simple yet complicated. God is right where we ask Him to be.

If I am walking with Him daily, praying, reading, studying, communing then God is going to be right there with me. He may decide to save us from destruction. He may have decided that it's our time to go. If it's our time He will hold our hand and be there with us, comforting us and bringing peace until we wake up with Him in Glory. If we are mangled in the hospital and have major injuries.. HE will bring the strength to carry on. If we lose a spouse or, God-forbid, a child.. HE will give us the strength to carry on, somehow, someway. Only He can give that kind of provision. FEMA, Obama, television, wealth, doctors... all these things will ultimately fall short on their own unless God uses them as a tool of his Mercy. We asked Him to be there, He is there.

However, IF we spend our days praising the world, loving the world, living like God is an afterthought or even, like we see so often, living as a proud and loud atheist. Then God will be exactly where we asked Him to be, even as we cry out in the midst of the destruction. It does not mean that God will not save us, it simply means that it will only be by His mercy alone. Also, it doesn't mean that you cannot be saved in the midst of the problem. Many people turn to God during tragedy, they are forever changed when their lives are disrupted in such a manner and turn to Him and are saved. But, it doesn't mean you can live like hell until you need God like sending out the Bat Signal and expecting Him to show up.

We are appointed a time to live and a time to die. None of us have any idea when are time is up. Turn to Him now. He loves all of us and does not want any of us to perish. The Bible confirms this time and time again. Stop calling to Him only when you need a favor. Don't wait until it's too late. 

I hope you find comfort in this and not condemnation. God, for me, is a beacon of hope. I know that I will meet the same end as everyone else. But I can look at death and smile, because I know it has no ultimate power over me.

“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. -- 1 Corinthians 15:55-57

If anyone has any questions or comments.. Please leave them below.

Prayer For Oklahoma

A MASSIVE 2.5 mile wide tornado has devastated Moore Oklahoma. From what I can see, my guess is that possibly hundreds are dead.

Heavenly Father,
We ask for your provision and safety for this community. We trust you that you are in control and you have a purpose in all of this. Please keep those safe that are in critical condition that they may be saved and have a chance to find You and impact their world. We pray that those who have nothing left can find solace in the fact that they are still alive. We pray that they will be able to get a new home and move on from this. Please help us all who were not affected to give sacrificially to help this community. Let Your will be done!
In Jesus' name,  Amen

Do You Truly Desire God?

Are you continuing to grow in your hatred of sin and your love of righteousness?

How Did We Get Here?

Leonard Ravenhill Quotes

What a man Leonard Ravenhill was. He inspired Ravi Zacharias, Paul Washer, Charles Stanley, David Wilkerson and many more. His preaching led many to Christ during WWII. His main theme was how backslidden the Church is today in comparison with the New Testament church... Something of which I agree wholeheartedly.

Here's a few of his great quotes from his books and sermons: 

The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

Is the world crucified to you tonight? Or does it fascinate you?

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

"A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning"

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified."

"Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy"

"The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising."

Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?

To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

White House Giving Out Candy In Exchange For Your Silence

The IRS scandal is a reward for subservience.

 

God's Judgment Is Coming

For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;

 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 

IRS Targeting The Tea Party And Lovers Of The Constitution

...And the media is going to do it's best to let them get away with it.
Here is some great commentary on what is really happening here...