As long as you’re denying God, you will not know any rest. You will not know any peace. You can’t save yourself through art. You can’t save yourself through music. You can’t do it through travel. You can’t do it through wealth. All your attempts at saving and transcending through other means will ultimately fail.
Watch this interview with Alice Cooper as he talks about his youth, his career, and his faith…
“The kind of worship God is looking for is to actually break the chains of the people who are enslaved…” - Vicky Beeching
Here’s a cool video clip giving us some insight into Vicky Beeching and her latest CD…
Vicky has a new CD coming out on April 6.
“For me, the title sums up the record,” said Beeching. “It’s about raising our expectation of what can happen in the context of worship - reminding us that it’s a supernatural encounter and that God’s Kingdom can break in - eternity can invade, if we are seeking and wanting that.”
Accordingly, Beeching wanted the record to sound as big as the concept, and cites groups U2 and Coldplay as sonic touchstones. “I wanted to create something that sounds like me and my band do in a live setting,” she said. “I wanted to make music that is fresh and edgy, while still being very congregational and church friendly.”
Beeching is featured in the current issue of Worship Leader in which she addresses the topic of theology in songwriting. She also has an active blog on her website www.vickybeeching.com with photos and behind-the-scenes posts from the recording studio and on the road. Beeching’s Twitter address is www.twitter.com/vickybeeching.
…but is it good for us? Whether you believe that ‘morality’ is something created by Bible-thumping right-wingers or the protective guidance from God towards his wayward children in need; it cannot be denied that there are serious consequences to the body, mind, and spirit of those who partake in pornography.
Those in positions of power treat others like objects…
Judging by the expression on her face, Hunter looks to be doing the math on her predicament. If she doesn’t do what Jim is asking her to do, she may or may not get paid. If she doesn’t do this, it’s entirely possible no one else will hire her after today. So, she concedes.
The participants have to do things they don’t want to do….
“I think I’m gonna cry,” chokes Hunter, teary-eyed…
“Just try to look happy,” Powers consoles…
Eventually, he gets what he needs.
Yet, these are humans with real feelings, real needs, real problems, real hopes, real dreams, and real souls…
Being a porn star isn’t easy. “It’s really weird. Like, at nighttime, I get anxiety about it. Like, I did the other scene, and, last night, as soon it got dark, and I laid in bed, and I was just alone with my thoughts, I felt really guilty and nervous about it.”
She hesitates. “So, you know, it’s, like, I keep praying about it, and, you know, asking to kind of be forgiven, ‘cause it is kind of wrong, I think, and it’s very degrading, I think, and it’s just—.”
She’s on the verge of tears. “I need the money that bad. I don’t have a car. I don’t have anything right now. I actually, like—I just need the money.”
The sin and depravity of man knows no limits….
But, this isn’t your father’s porn. Equal parts freak show, horror movie, and Russ Meyer-on-crack, his X-rated visions are deranged, demented, mind-boggling expeditions into the dark, unexplored continent of human sexual perversity.
…and takes us farther than we ever thought we’d go…
He was willing to go beyond the pale if that’s what it took to entertain the masses, and for that he was rewarded. “It was like the last days of Rome,” he says wistfully. “We were in the vomitoriums.”
It leads to self-deception…
“We are helping these girls! Anybody that comes into this business, for the most part, is a broken toy.” He leans towards me, earnestly attempting to make himself understood. “We’re giving them a place where they can make money, and get by, so they’re not standing on line in a welfare department. Thank God for people like me!” He bangs the desk.
It’s a cleverly crafted deception…
I ask her if she was really having orgasms the half-dozen or so times she appeared to during the scene. She looks around to see if anybody is within earshot. Deen is in the shower. She cups her hand next to her lips and mouths: No.
Those that are exposed to it at a early age are deeply effected by it…
A product of the porn generation, he saw his first adult movie at six, was inspired to become a porn star while watching Jenna Jameson on MTV’s “Loveline,” and shot his first scene at 18.
It promises intimacy and love yet it contains neither…
The men were there for many different reasons. They were lonely. They were horny. This was their fantasy. They wanted to be porn stars. They were fresh out of jail. They were social outcasts. They longed to be somebody, if only for a few minutes.
These quotes were taken from an online essay about the porn industry: They Shoot Porn Stars Don’t They?
Warning: it contains graphic language as it’s a stark account of what goes on from someone who witnessed it and talked to the participants.
This is the Gospel. This is good news! God does for us what we can’t do ourselves. All glory to Him…
But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness
