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Parents wanting to protect their children from undesirable material on the Internet used to have a fairly easy task:
Install filtering software on the computer!
In 2010 that is simply not enough. Why?
 Because access to the Internet is no longer limited to the PC/Mac but now includes the following devices:
- Media devices, such as the iPod Touch
- Sony PlayStation 3 Console
- Nintendo Wii Console
- Sony PSP Handheld
- Nintendo DSi Handheld
Each and every one of these devices can access pornography, other sexually explicit material, hate sites, hacker sites, and more.
Continue reading OpenDNS Filtering: A Review For Home and Church
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NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues regarding sexuality
& God’s design for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other posts on “sexting”: Part I and Part II
 Technology gives our children the power to do great things, and to make great mistakes.
So, what does a parent do when they discover that their child has been involved with sexting or child pornography?
You might not think that is a possibility with YOUR child, but it is really not that unlikely in the 21st Century.
Consider the following:
- Kids are taking sexually oriented pictures & videos of themselves and others using cell phones, web cams, and digital cameras/camcorders.
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- Kids can easily access porn sites that are “hosted” in other countries where the “age of consent” is far lower than it is in America, thereby accessing child pornography.
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- Children, including teenagers, do not understand that viewing underage porn is not illegal because of THEIR age, but because of the age of those in the images/videos. Being the same age does not make it “legal”.
Continue reading SEXTING, CHILD PORN, & THE POLICE
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NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues regarding sexuality
& God’s design for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Part 5 of the multi-part series: “SEX: What was God THINKING???!!!“
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other post about viewing GOD AS DESIGNER.
Earlier in this series we looked at what we could learn about God’s intent for sexuality from God’s Design, and from the Old Testament. Now it is time to turn to the New Testament and, in particular, the Gospels. There are things to learn there!
Let’s start with Jesus’ first miracle.
Continue reading SEX: What Was God THINKING???!!!
Part V – Sex & The Gospels: Marriage
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PART II of a 2-part series on SEXTING
PART I discussed legal issues
PART II discusses moral and developmental issues
 Let’s face it, when you are dating, even in middle school, you are on a voyage of discovery. Ideally, you are discovering:
• What is “out there”.
• What you like, and dislike, in the opposite sex.
• How to navigate social interactions with the opposite sex.
• How to handle, and discipline, yourself.
• How to judge character and social/family potential.
That is why we go on movie and dinner dates, ask our friends “What do you think?”, and even come up with “tests” to see what the other is really like.
Young people begin holding hands, hugging and kissing, and hopefully not much else. This is the ideal. While there are vulnerabilities that are exposed and sometimes injured, the relationship is about friendship and love.
But, when young people, or even adults, begin crossing sexual boundaries it clouds things up. The relationship transforms from one where friendship, affection, and respect are central to one where lust and selfish desire rule.
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What’s The Big Deal??? Part II
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PART I of a 2-part series on SEXTING
PART I discusses legal issues
PART II will discuss moral and developmental issues
I got a call recently from a parent who had discovered that one of their son’s female friends had sent a picture of herself partially clothed. They were extremely upset (for good reason) but they were also very worried about the fact that the phone could potentially hold “child pornography”. They were conscientious parents who stumbled across the image while checking up on family cell usage vie the web.
This was just a few weeks after a local middle school had experienced a “sexting scandal”.
What is going on, and why is “SEXTING” such a big deal?
Well, dating has CHANGED since my day. ‘Way back then, girls didn’t even want to be seen kissing in public, except maybe a quick kiss (1970’s, Deep South… California was different, I hear!).
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What’s The Big Deal??? Part I
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NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues regarding sexuality
& God’s design for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Part 4 of a multi-part series: “SEX: What was God THINKING???!!!“
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other post about viewing GOD AS DESIGNER.
 There have been hundreds of books that take apart the SONG OF SOLOMON, also called the CANTICLES, and try to reassemble it so we can understand it. I’m not doing that, today. Instead, I want us to take a summary look at God’s book on married love and pick up a few pointers from it.
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Part IV – A SONG OF…EQUALITY
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 Many of my posts have dealt with issues surrounding the Internet, pornography, and Christian sexuality. These are all related.
Another related topic is that of ONLINE PREDATORS.
When parents consider predator threats they often make a few dangerous assumptions:
- It’s not in my community,
- Predators are male, and
- If I monitor my computers I’m covering the threat.
This week’s headlines about a Houston, TX woman who was arrested for allegedly seducing a Canadian teen through the online game WORLD OF WARCRAFT shows how varied the threat is. Read these two articles about this tragic incident:
Predators take all forms and use any avenue of contact to reach their targets. We, as parents, need to understand these dangers so we can better protect our children.
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The guy…or gal…next door or online
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NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues regarding sexuality
& God’s design for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Part 3 of a 3-Part series: “SEX: What was God THINKING???!!!“
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other post about viewing GOD AS DESIGNER.
So far in 0ur examination of what God was thinking when He designed Humanity to be a bi-gendered we’ve looked at elements of His overall design, how they fit together as a system, and how that system worked before sin.
The problem is, we all live in a world that contains sin, and we exist as creatures with a sin nature. In the area of sex/sexuality, it is a very STRONG sin nature!
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Part III – Proverbial Wisdom!
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This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues & physiological/medical information
regarding sexuality & God’s design for humanity. If this makes you uncomfortable,
please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Part 2 of a multi-part series: “SEX: What was God THINKING???!!!“
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other post about viewing GOD AS DESIGNER.
As I grew up there were many “messages” that the Deep South Culture transmitted. Mostly they implied that sex was “dirty” and “unspeakable”. (This was in the 1960s and 1970s.)
Today, in 21st Century America, the messages seem to be quite different. Sex is definitely not “unspeakable” and while “dirty” is not used a lot there seems to be a “dark side” where sex is supposed to abide. Everyone is supposed to be a great lover and have mind-blowing, athletic sex. Everyone is supposed to “go for the gusto!”
Well, we’re batting .500, I guess.
Continue reading SEX: What Was God THINKING???!!!
Part II – Genesis 1-3 & The World’s Best Sex
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NOTE:
This post deals frankly but respectfully with issues & physiological/medical
information regarding sexuality & God’s design for humanity. If this makes
you uncomfortable, please consider that we are discussing GOD’S DESIGN.
Part 1 of a multi-part series: “SEX: What was God THINKING???!!!“
Before reading this blog you might want to read my other post about viewing GOD AS DESIGNER.
 With all the problems that couples/singles and Society have, as whole, due to sex and sexuality, we might wonder:
What was God THINKING
when He came up with the idea of sex/sexuality?
I really don’t think that God just slapped the Universe and Humanity together. Everything, every “design element”, was carefully and “artfully” considered by God and was then created.
So, what’s the deal with sex? What could God have been thinking? It seems to cause a lot of problems!!!!
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Part I – Design
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