Truth Encounter: Street Smart Godly Kids Unknown

"If you feel like having sex with someone and they agree, go ahead. This proclaims your love for life!" The responsible choice in this culture is not in controlling passions, but in being sure they are coated with thick enough plastic so that no viruses can escape to do their dirty deadly thing. Isn’t it about time for a lot of us to stand up and speak up. What about an old fashioned thing called the truth?

Choices--we all have to make them. Will we wear this shirt or that shirt this morning? Will we go out to eat or stay home tonight? Should we go to this college or that college? In the course of a life time thousands of choices will be made, and as a young person sets out down the path of young adulthood, their choices are life determining. How does a parent or grandparent help prepare these kids to make the right choices?

If your free from guilt, if you have truth on your side, if you are confident of love, you can look at others right in the eye with boldness and strength. This is the bearing of royalty and God wants all of His children to remember that this is exactly what they are if they have invited His Son into their lives.

Every one of our towns and cities needs a better business bureau to guard against con men and women who seek to make a fast buck on the naive and unsuspecting. I am sure that some of your local news stations have business reporters who seek to sniff out the latest sting. Why not learn to sniff them out for yourself?

“Fantasy island,” “fantasy vacations,” fantasy perfumes”—the word fantasy places magic, thrill, satisfaction before any word it modifies, but is it possible that our fantasies could destroy us? We can’t live without dreams, but when our dreams restrain us from doing the practical, uncomfortable, hard things that must be done today, they can turn our future into one tragic nightmare.

As you drive by this individual’s house, weeds have taken over the lawn, the door is blocked by thorn bushes, and the gate hangs on broken hinges. From the looks of the place you would conclude that a gang of marauders had invaded the place and torn it apart. But instead of this kind of overt attack, a more insidious silent destroyer has smothered prosperity. It is possible that this thief is already at work on your bank account, your home, your prosperity.