This song has been a huge blessing to me in my spiritual walk... Enjoy!! It's a momma singing songs about the Lord It's a daddy spending family time That the world said he cannot afford These simple moments change the world It's a pastor at a tiny little Church Forty years of loving on the broken and the hurt These simple moments change the world Dream small Don't bother like you've gotta do it all Just let Jesus use you where you are O...
So we have been exploring the paradox of peer pressure. In this blog, I'm going to address the questions of; how do we know when peer pressure bad? and how can we fix it? I the last peer pressure blog I addressed what to do with peer pressure when it's bad. And I kind-of addresses the question of how we know when peer pressure is bad, but I'm going to re-state my points just for reminders:) So if our friends are getting us to do things that we would not norm...
Peer pressure. It's an interesting paradox. People normally say it's bad because it can influence us to things that we would never do. But, we must ask the question; is it always bad? If we think about it, it can be both bad and good. The bad comes from your friends telling you to do something that you consider to be against your foundational moral beliefs. The good is when the influence is either harmless or beneficial. Like your friends telling you that a certain food is...
So today I want to touch on a topic that can be really touchy in the Seventh Day Adventist world; Modesty. One of the biggest traps that the world has for girls is fast fashion, and the compulsion to please the world by appearance. This is particularly applicable to girls who have worldly friends, or have a tenancy to want to please by looks. These girls hope to get so close to the world's standard, that the line of division can hardly be distinguished. They feel that to be accepted ...