Father's Day was good. I am so glad to have such a Godly example of what a father is.

I haven't done a serious post in a while. But lately I've been thinking about the verse in 1 Cor 15 I think verse 33 that says, "Do not be decieved: Bad company corrupts good morals." Sometimes I start to think that us college folk know so much more than my jr. high guys, and of course I am proven wrong. One thing that my 8th grade guys struggle with is hanging out with the wrong people. That verse in 1st Cor has really been a theme verse for them. While it isn't their friends fault necessarily, these bad influences encourage them to do bad things. In jr. high it is swearing, in college it's drinking. The Christian life is so not staying out of trouble. First because it's absolutely impossible to do and second then your focus is totally off. One thing that my jr. highers lack a lot of the time is judgement derived through prayer and obedience to the Holy Spirit. That is what college students lack as well. Well, once i think about it that's what most people lack. My point is this, if we are going to live Christianity by not doing bad things and doing good things then you have to do everything in the Bible, not just the ones that are easy for you. To paraphrase Paul, if your Christianity is about works then you have to obey the letter of the law. Christianity is not easy, the road to heaven is the narrow road and this means making some tough choices such as giving up certian friends. That's what I tell my jr. highers anyways.

"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body." 1st Cor 6:19-20