According the Glenn Beck in his book An Inconvenient Book, the porn industry generates billions of dollars every year.  According to his research, porn earns more each year than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Netflix, and Earthlink combined. 

I have to think that many who claim to follow Christ are supporting porn!  I have heard many horrible statistics claiming that an astronomical amount of men have viewed porn in the last year.  That number is equally as high among those in the church.  What is going on?  Give it to Christ.  Respect women and respect yourself.  God has a better life for you.  Don’t become enslaved to the porn master!  Women and men alike are not just meaty objects of our affection and desire.  We are created in the image of God. 

May God free you from porn!  If you are struggling and you want help overcoming this addiction please go to www.xxxchurch.com.  I am praying for our men today that we can have enough will to conquer the sex and porn that the world is trying to sell us!

This is for real…

SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia’s largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas’s traditional “ho ho ho” greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.

Sydney’s Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say “ha ha ha” instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.

One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use “ho ho ho” because it could frighten children and was too close to “ho”, a US slang term for prostitute.

“Gimme a break,” said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.

“We are talking about little kids who do not understand that “ho, ho, ho” has any other connotation and nor should they,” she told the Telegraph.

“Leave Santa alone.”

A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was “misleading” to say the company had banned Santa’s traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.

This is unreal.  So I was thinking… since “ho” is offensive, what are we going to call the garden tool?  Oh, I know… we will call it a “chopper”.  No… we can’t do that because a “chopper” is a name for a bike and if we kill weeds with a garden tool, people might think that those who ride a “chopper” bike will kill people.  I guess when we go to get the garden tool we should just say we are using “that tool”, no we can’t say that because “tool” is a slang word for a poser or loser.  Well… I don’t know.  If you have any suggestions let me know.  All I know is that when I see Santa Clause at the mall I hope that he is really fat and jolly and I will make sure to say “Merry Christmas” and “Ho Ho Ho”! 

Please don’t forget the reason for the season.  Jesus is the center of our life and he is all that we should focus on this season.  Don’t worry about being politically correct.  Just love Jesus and celebrate his birth.  I would love to hear what he would have to say about all of this if he were here.

May God grant you peace and lots of jolly times!  Ho Ho Ho, Merry CHRISTmas!

I saw these book titles and I thought that they were hilarious.  Let me know what you think.  These would by far be the shortest books of all time…

Things I love About My Country
Written by Jane Fonda, Illustrated by Michael Moore

My Christian Accomplishments & How I Helped After Katrina
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton

Things I Love About Bill
Written by Hillary Clinton

Things I Cannot Afford
Written by Bill Gates

How To Drink And Drive Over Bridges
Written by Ted Kennedy

My Plan To Find The Real Killers
Written by O.J. Simpson

Amish Phone Directory

If you find any of these in stores, please buy them for me for Christmas.  These books are all that I want for Christmas.

Honest lyrics from Sanctus Real…

If weakness is a wound That no one wants to speak of Then “cool” is just how far we have to fall  I am not immune I only want to be loved But I feel safe behind the firewall  Can I lose my need to impress? If you want the truth, I need to confess  I’m not all right I’m broken inside And all I go through It leads me to you  Burn away the pride Bring me to my weakness Until everything I hide behind is gone  And when I’m open wide With nothing left to cling to Only you are there to lead me on  Honestly, I’m not that strong  And I move closer to you  I’m not all right…that’s why I need you..

About seven years ago I used to work at the Family Christian Store in Fort Wayne Indiana.  While I worked there, there was an older man and his wife who would come in every few weeks.  I don’t think that they were all there.  We would typically have two employees working so one would stay at the register and the other would try to follow these two customers around.  Why, you might ask?  Because they would steal books from us.  The man would wear a big trenchcoat looking suit jacket he would stuff books in his pocket.  The wife would just shove the books down her skirt.  Weird!  Anyway, we could never catch them stealing becase they would split up and there was only one of us available to follow them around…

So, yesterday I was eating lunch with Tyler Ash at Pizza Hut in Wabash.  We were just sitting there enjoying lunch when Tyler requested that I check this guy out that just came into the restaurant.  I looked and there stood an old man and he was holding orange ear muffs.  Not the kind that you wear when it is cold.  The heavy duty kind that you wear at the airport when you are directing the airplanes.  As I looked at this man, I couldn’t believe who it was. 

I began telling Tyler about this man and how he used to steal from the Christian Store while the man was waiting to be seated.  Well… after a few moments we noticed that he was leaving.  We watched him leave and he got into his Park Avenue and he drove away.  We couldn’t believe what happend next.  We noticed, because it was close by, that he drove to the Christian Bookstore in Wabash.  What a coincidence.  Tyler at first didn’t believe what I was telling him but when he saw that, he was beginning to believe. 

About fifteen minutes later the man showed up again.  This time he got a seat, and it just happened to be the booth right next to Tyler and I.  As he sat, we couldn’t help but notice that he was wearing foam ear plugs in his ear and he had a book with him.  He sat down and ordered an iced tea.  That was it.  No food!  When the iced tea arrived, he pulled out a large bag from his pocket.  Apparently he felt the need to bring his own sugar packs.  He dumped about twenty packs into his tea and began to drink.  He then took his ear muffs and put them on, apparently trying to block out any possible noise.  He began to read.  Not like you and I, but in the middle of the day he pulled a flashlight out of his pocket and began to use it to assist him in reading. 

Since school was out early that day a student from our youth group came over because she couldn’t help but see how hard I was laughing.  She got her camera our and took four pictures.  I will post those pictures as soon as she sends them to me.  They are great!

May God bless your day, and may this story make you laugh a little.  Don’t laugh so hard that you wet yourself.  Just laugh a little!  Well… I guess you can block out the world with your ear muffs, but you can’t block out reality.  You can do all you want to run and hide but everywhere you go, God is right by your side.  Have a blessed day!