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As a recovering Internet porn addict, I keep the parental controls on my computer locked down pretty tight, so that no objectionable material can get through and cause me any sort of temptation, for my own shameful experiences bear out the truth of what God has said about girlie magazines and self-abuse:
Naturally, I use my parental controls to filter out trashy Web domains that are obviously designed to get me in trouble, such as http://www.lanebryant.com/ and http://www.motherhood.com/ and I encourage you to filter them out also.
However, there is one site which I wish to caution you against, for it masquerades as a perfectly innocuous restaurant review site.
I am speaking of the Web site known as "Yelp."
What could possibly be more innocent than a Web site providing reviews of local restaurants? That was certainly my naive thinking as I allowed Yelp's restaurant reviewers to lead me down their primrose path with tantalizing descriptions of the mouth-watering burritos and foot-long sandwiches available in my area.
One obsession I have, though, is with finding the best kielbasa sausage. So I recently, in all my naivete, began participating in Yelp Talk, in order to inquire as to whether Yelp's reviewers could tell me where to find the best kielbasa.
I wasn't long, however, before I found myself getting sucked into reading conversations such as the following:
Masturbation
Rubbing one out while texting...
Ladies, what's your favorite part of a man's body?
I could go on and on, and I do feel it's important that somebody monitor this filth. However, with each one that I read, I become more inflamed with impure thoughts.
Isn't there something we can do about these debauched sinners? Somebody needs to tell them that the only review they need to be concerned with is the one that their all-powerful Creator is going to give them when they reach the ends of their unholy lives!
- Matt. 5:27, "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery'; 28 but I say to you, that everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart."
- 1 Cor. 6:18, "Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body."
- Col. 3:5, "Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry."
Naturally, I use my parental controls to filter out trashy Web domains that are obviously designed to get me in trouble, such as http://www.lanebryant.com/ and http://www.motherhood.com/ and I encourage you to filter them out also.
However, there is one site which I wish to caution you against, for it masquerades as a perfectly innocuous restaurant review site.
I am speaking of the Web site known as "Yelp."
What could possibly be more innocent than a Web site providing reviews of local restaurants? That was certainly my naive thinking as I allowed Yelp's restaurant reviewers to lead me down their primrose path with tantalizing descriptions of the mouth-watering burritos and foot-long sandwiches available in my area.
One obsession I have, though, is with finding the best kielbasa sausage. So I recently, in all my naivete, began participating in Yelp Talk, in order to inquire as to whether Yelp's reviewers could tell me where to find the best kielbasa.
I wasn't long, however, before I found myself getting sucked into reading conversations such as the following:
Masturbation
Rubbing one out while texting...
Ladies, what's your favorite part of a man's body?
I could go on and on, and I do feel it's important that somebody monitor this filth. However, with each one that I read, I become more inflamed with impure thoughts.
Isn't there something we can do about these debauched sinners? Somebody needs to tell them that the only review they need to be concerned with is the one that their all-powerful Creator is going to give them when they reach the ends of their unholy lives!
I'm sure here, at GOD'S Favorite Church, you will find the answers you are looking for.
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