OverSexualized
// April 13th, 2010 // No Comments » // Youth News
I just finished reading an article by Jonathan McKee and thought that it is something parents should hear. I remember back to when I was in high school and the things I was doing had a direct correlation to the music I was listening to and I don’t think it’s a coincidence. Music is a very powerful tool, that is why God created it and we use it to worship Him but of course Satan likes to twist good things and use them for his own purposes.
It really bothers me that music has become so bad lately because I LOVE MUSIC. I can sit and listen to music all day long and I will listen to any genre of it as well. Anyways here is a snippet of the article, he also has links to some of his other articles and I recommend you take the time to read them as well.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to preach about youth culture, then do a parenting workshop in a church in South Bend, IN. On the drive to the workshop, I decided to tune into a popular radio station to hear a sampling of what our kids were hearing, wondering if I’d hear many of the “Hot 100″ songs I’d been researching. After all, I know the top 10 songs kids were downloading. iTune shows us that at a glance. But I was curious what the radio was playing.
This particular radio station seemed like it was playing right from the “Top 10″ charts, because in the hour that I had the radio on, I heard almost every song that I had been studying.
After about an hour of listening… I felt like I needed to take a shower and wash off the filth.
Seriously. I study this stuff all the time, and yet I still am amazed how potent today’s music is with oversexualized lyrics. (Is oversexualized even a word? Nope. I just pasted it into WORD and it gave me a little red wiggly line.)
Let me give you a glimpse at some of these top songs I heard.
