Intro Part Two: Garbage in, Garbage out

In Matthew 12:34 it says, ". . . how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the

heart the mouth speaks." That was Jesus's way of saying "garbage in, garbage out", and when you think about it, you can't really deny it's truth. When you hang around friends who swear and speak bad about others, of course you're going to follow along. The same applies to the music you listen to. When you listen to the same lyrics, spilling the same message day in and day out, you will become more and more like the artists portrayal of how they live their lives. Am I saying that all secular music is wrong and that you should only listen to hymns? Certainly not! I love me some Attack! Attack! and Colbie Calliat just as much as the next girl. (Two extremes, I know, but just for examples.)  The line does need to be drawn somewhere, however, and when your mind and heart are under attack by words that promote things that common sense and conscience tells you is wrong, draw it there! Don't continue on and become so hard hearted that eventually your ability to pick out right from wrong vanishes. It's really hard to get it back, trust me! I understand how my Bible quoting and conscience invasion can be a little hard to take in and annoying for some of you out there, but I am asking you to please give my blog a try. It's my hope that just one person out there will read it and be changed like I was about my views on the mainstream movement. Whether you believe in God or not, I pray that somehow He will do a great work in my blog and I use it all to His glory! So, with that said, I suppose I'll end this intro and get to the real core of the blog. Reviewing popular artists and their music. Keep an open mind!!

Intro Part One: Been There, Done That

To start, I would like to point out that I was not someone who was raised Amish, or in an incredibly sheltered home where music wasn't allowed or anything like that. I heard my share of secular music growing up and the older I got the more risque and morbid my music selections became. I fell pretty hard into a lot of music that no one in their right mind should be listening to, and looking back it almost freaks me out that I was so calloused to what I heard in the lyrics that I began thinking that acts of anger and sometimes violence, sexual promiscuity, and hardcore swearing were OK. And in today's society, yes, they often are. However, that does not make them right. Although I don't believe that music is the only cause of immorality, I do believe that it plays an enormous part in the downfall of the young men and women in the world today.

Believe me, music does play a great part in the way you live your life. If you choose to listen to music that spouts out lyrics full of violence and sexual immorality, you will be more likely to live that type of lifestyle. Some of the secular music I listened to transformed me to into a person that my friends and family didn't even recognize. I began to become very bitter and aggressive towards my parents and sister. I chose friends who pulled me down even more. I began getting deep into self mutilation. So many things that I know were cause by the infulence of the music that I was listening to, playing off my own sinful nature.