The Worst Advice from Classic Songs …and One Great Bit of Wisdom from Another

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Episode 1,585 - The Worst Advice from Classic Songs …and One Great Bit of Wisdom from Another. (AUDIO & VIDEO)

I am like you, in that most of us have playlists of music we like to listen to. It has dawned on me as I have gotten older how many of these songs I have loved contain stupid life advice. There is some good, but it is very rare. The song Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd is a beautiful song, but, there is a line in that song that is some of the worst advice you could be given. On the other hand, there is  one song by John Mellencamp that actually gives some great advice, and a song by U2 that contains some of the worst advice, wrapped in a beautiful package. Let’s examine them against the Word of God. 

What does God’s Word say? 

Psalm 98:1-3 

A psalm.

1 Sing to the Lord a new song,

    for he has done marvelous things;

his right hand and his holy arm

    have worked salvation for him.

2 The Lord has made his salvation known

    and revealed his righteousness to the nations.

3 He has remembered his love

    and his faithfulness to Israel;

all the ends of the earth have seen

    the salvation of our God.

Episode 1,585 Links:

• Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simple Man 

• The Beatles, Let It Be

• U2-One 

• John Mellencamp, Your Life Is Now

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Episode 1,586 - The United Methodist Church Denounces Christianity. (AUDIO & VIDEO)

Breaking news! The United Methodist Church just denounced Christianity. They did so not in name, but in deed. At their annual conference, they set out guidelines, of which included the instruction to not solely use male pronouns for God. But, it doesn't stop there. Their focus on race, sexual identity, and pretend gender identity announces that they are no longer Christian. There is something far more serious to this, though. Satan is constructing a bizarre world of inverse Christianity on multiple fronts. He is taking sacred things and inverting them. We must remember that our job assigned by God is to t=free the captives, and these people are captives.

What does God’s Word say? 

2 Corinthians 11:14

14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Episode 1,586 Links:

• Synopsis of the United Methodist Church collapse

• At the opening of the United Methodist Church's General Conference, attendees are warned to avoid "exclusively male language for God" and to "be conscious of inferred power dynamics."

• At the United Methodist Church conference, members share personal details like race and pronouns before speaking. They've okayed gay clergy and marriages, but a bishop gets called out for misgendering. Full woke mode

• This man’s is not speaking of following Jesus, he is speaking of following the flesh.

• RFK, Jr. comes out in support of gender reassignment surgery and chemical castration for kids as long as the parents approve.