To All My Anonymous Fans

Let me clarify the illegal download comment. It’s not so much an illegal download as it is the MP3 is just out there in cyber space. I guess it would have been more accurate to say I don’t pay for the MP3. Is that “illegal”, I don’t know. You can find just about anything out there you want these days. If you’ve figured out how to hit the “Anonymous” button on Blogger you can probably find free music. Give it a try. And there are much worse things that I do that I don’t post on the Blog. As a youth minister am I supposed to be perfect? I hope wherever your student attends (if he/she does) that their youth minister is perfect and never screws up. As for me I screw up. Yes, let it be public knowledge that Community Christian Church hired a sinner. Run for the hills all you “Christians”! I admit it, I struggle with it and I strive to become a fully devoted follower. Furthermore if your kid does, in fact, find himself/herself struggling with something I would hope he/she could find a place that would accept him, love him and help him grow to be more like Christ. That’s what we try to do here at CCC. We’re all messed up, we all love each other in spite of it, and God doesn’t love us any less. By the way, if you’re looking for some MP3’s try skreemer. Unless you’re that perfect youth minister, then splurge and pay the 99 cents on iTunes.

Miley's Achy Breaky Pictures Part 2

Some of you may argue that Miley is someone that kids look up to and want to be like (see previous post). Here’s what I say to you. My kids may emulate Hannah Montana from time to time, but they don’t aspire to be her when they grow up. Ask my five year old to describe what she wants to be and shell say: I want to be tall, pretty and have dark hair. Who’s she trying to imitate? Her mom! My son wants to cook dinner and build things. He wants to take after his old man. My youngest daughter would rather help her mom with the laundry then watch Hannah Montana. We also spend A LOT of time with our kids. Wonder why they would rather be like us then Miley Cyrus? Unfortunately I see a lot of my bad habits in my kids too. So instead of being the moral police for Miley maybe I should start with myself. Of course, I’m sure I’m the only parent that screws up. Once I fix myself I’ll join all you perfect people and help criticize Miley.

Miley's Achy Breaky Pictures

Ok, I realize I’m really behind the times by just now posting about this, but believe it or not I have better things to do. Anyway, what’s up with the whole Miley Cyrus picture thing? Let’s all agree that it was a mistake. The only difference between the mistake Miley made and the mistakes average 15 year old girls make is that millions of people see Miley’s mistake. She says she lives on Christian principles, so that means she’s not allowed to screw up? Here’s a big shocker: 15 year old Christians screw up. I know, that comes as a HUGE surprise to many of you. Tell you what, if you’ve got huge issues with Miley and what she did let me post your next screw up in a national publication with a circulation of 1.1 million.

Ultimately here’s my point. I have two daughter that love Miley Cyrus a.k.a. Hannah Montana. (Now you can argue that I shouldn’t let my daughters watch the show, but that’s a discussion for another time.) Her posing in Vanity Fair made NO impact on my daughters because they don’t read Vanity Fair. They’ve never even seen it. Now does that excuse or make up for what Miley did. No. But I would worry more about the parents that let there kids look at such magazines. I would argue that Vanity Fair is worse then Playboy. Take out the naked pictures in Playboy and all you’re left with is articles about sports and cars. (Or so I’ve been told). Open the pages of Vanity Fair, or GQ or even Seventeen and you see articles like “How to Please Your Man”, “Seven Ways to Use a Popsicle Stick” or “Guy or Girl, The Tough Decision”.

What I don’t understand is how her dad sat there and watched it. That would just gross me out. Of course this is the man that brought you “Achy Breaky Heart”. I think people are just pissed off because they didn’t have the idea to put their 15 year old mediocre singing/acting daughter on the Disney channel to make millions of dollars. I guess I just have more things to get upset about. Like $4.00 gas prices, war, raising my own kids, you know much LESS important things. Maybe one day I’ll get upset at Miley. Until then I guess I’ll have to keep downloading illegal copies of her songs to my MP3 player so my daughters can listen to them in the car. Yes I said illegal! But give me a break, it’s not like I’m letting my kids pose for magazines.

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Why Blogs were invented

I am convinced that blogging was invented to give people something to do when they don’t feel like working. Right now I have a drama to write, two scripts to memorize, a music video to cast and story board and a sermon to look over for this Sunday night. I have plenty to do; I just don’t feel like doing any of it. So, instead of doing work, I blog. Sure blogs are useful, there’s lots of good stuff out there. There is much wisdom to be gleaned from blogs. But being a blog writer isn’t a job. Well, maybe it is. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone gets paid to write and keep up with a blog. I want that job. If that were my job then I wouldn’t feel like doing it. And instead of doing my blog job I would get the drama written, the scripts memorized, the music video done and spend the rest of the time looking over my message.

If you’re interested here is the real history of Blogs. It’s actually very interesting how they came about.