2 Timothy 3:1-5, 8 (TLB) 1 You may as well know this too, Timothy, that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian. 2 For people will love only themselves and their money; they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad. 3 They will be hardheaded and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and troublemakers and will think nothing of immorality. They will be rough and cruel, and sneer at those who try to be good. 4 They will betray their friends; they will be hotheaded, puffed up with pride, and prefer good times to worshiping God. 5 They will go to church, yes, but they won’t really believe anything they hear. Don’t be taken in by people like that. 8 . . They have dirty minds, warped and twisted, and have turned against the Christian faith.
Today, we have TV advertisements coming into our homes that would have made our grandparents blush. (My grandparents would have thrown a brick through the TV upon hearing of advertisers pimping products that range from eliminating men's erectile dysfunctions to enhancing the libidos of mid-aged women.) Norman Douglas was so very right when he said: "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." --Pastor Darvin
Glory (Summer 1992). Christianity Today, Vol. 37, no. 1Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "CULTURE".
