Paramore

A band named Paramore has recently scored a spot on the new motion picture album, Twilight with their song, Decode. I never really knew the band, only heard of them until now!
I was doing some research on their latest album, Riot!. I checked out a few of their songs, 'Misery Business' She is singing about wanting a boy but some other girl takes him away and eight months later gives him up and she starts singing:

Whoa, I never meant to brag
But, I got him where I want him now.
Whoa, it was never my intention to brag
To steal it all away from you now.
But god does it feel so good,
Cause I got him where I want him now.
And if you could then you know you would.

Eh? The band members are professing Christians and I don't see it. Blaspheming the Lords name. The worst thing is, she knows she did this, this is what she had to say,

I'm ashamed to say that, although I'm a believer in Jesus Christ and i claim him as my God, when i wrote those lyrics i wasn't addressing him. i was using his name casually. in vain, to be blunt. if you know much about the Christian religion (which I'm not too fond of addressing my faith as), you'll probably know that one of the ten commandments is "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord your God in vain"... it goes on to say, "...for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain." As a believer in Christ, that last part scares the hell out of me. i don't want to be held accountable for being the cause of so many people using his name in vain. you don't have to believe in what i believe and no one in Paramore is ever going to go around forcing our faith into people's lives...
but believer or not, i might have led some of ya'll to believe that i take my Saviour lightly. and i don't.

Why is it hard to say you're a Christian? This statement alone says a lot about Hayley Willaim's faith. She's cussing on the livejournal, reading all the Twilight books, telling people to buy The Shack and watching the Harry Potter movies, what 'Christian' signal does that send?
Another thing, in Charlie Daniels 'The Devil went down to Georgia' he said Son of a *****. When he became a Christian he changed the lyrics to, Son of a gun.
If Paramore knows about the song, why don't they cut the song.

About forcing faith, Matt 28:19 says to spread the Gospel not keep it to our selfs.

No Christian should be saying they don't forgive someone from the past and call them a whore in the song that blasphemes the Almighty God. God calls us to forgive and vengeance be his.

The music video is just as horrible as the song. She doesn't seem to be so sad when saying, But god does it feel so good,! It shows a girl going around acting top dog doing what she wants; for instance, cutting a girls long braid off, throwing an injured boy into the wall and nastily making out with a boy because he was flirting with his girlfriend. In the end the Paramore group comes out of a room and confronts her. The lead singer (Hayley) smirks before reaching in the girl's low cut dress pulling out some bra cups and wiping away her make-up. They walk away acting so proud that they 'taught her a lesson'.

Bottom line, Christians should not listen to bands such as these. They, I believe, are more of a danger. You would be better off listening to secular artists than Mute math, Paramore, 12 Stones and many other professing Christians who are in bands. I can't stress enough how we need discernment when looking for things in this world.

Joel Osteen

I'm sure just about everyone has heard of Joel Osteen; however, do people really know what he believes or preaches? In an interview with 60 minutes, it begin with the host talking about Mr. Osteen's beliefs, he said, 'He believes God is loving, forgiving and rewards believers with health, wealth and happiness.'

What!? Yes God is loving and forgiving, but everyone tends to leave out that he is also sovereign, righteous and just; that would mean God punishes the wicked and detests things.
If you believe God is so loving, most people will ask, 'How can a loving God send people to Hell?'

There are a few things wrong with this statement. God does not send people to Hell, they send them selfs. Think of it, would God be loving if he forced people to be where he is?

You can't sit there and say, God will reward believers with health, wealth and happiness.

What of the Christians who have chronicle illness' that have a relationship with Christ? Just because they don't have health, does that mean they are any less deserving?
Or what of the Christians that live in other country's who have nothing more that half a house, little clothes and maybe if they're lucky an animal and love the Lord. Do they not deserve an reward just as much as others that are not struggling in financial issues.
What of the Christians that go through persecution, do you think they are filled with worldly happiness?
The Lord never promised rewards on earth, rather, he spoke of rewards in heaven.

A quote from Joel Osteen:
“I want to help you learn to forgive today, I want to help you have the right thoughts today.”

No man can help us forgive; it's by Christ we learn to forgive. How can any man help us with out our thoughts if he doesn't know our thought life?
It is a problem when some high-up preachers think they have the answers to all the problems or that they have some new way of preaching the gospel. It is preachers like Joel Osteen that lead people astray, giving them false hope, half the message, distorting the Word of God. He's trying to make it a new improved way of living. He never prepares you for the persecution that comes, wave after wave, getting stronger to the point all you have to lean on is God.
Unless you face persecution and begin to resent God, hating Christians feeling like they meant to humiliate you. When in truth, it was really that half message you received that didn't prepare you for the persecution as God promised.

On an interview with Larry King, Joel Osteen is asked about republican Mitt Romney's Mormonism, if he will go to heaven. Mr. Osteen states, he hasn't studied the bible enough to know little facts as that, but he believes in his heart that because Romney says he believes in Jesus Christ he will go to heaven. If Osteen took time to study his bible and not try to make up story's on how 'to be a better you' he would see that Mormon will not enter the Kingdom of God, for they have not repented of their sins and put their trust in Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:1 reads, “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”