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    Facing the Truth: A Biblical Look at Today's Social Media
    Facing the Truth: A Biblical Look at Today's Social Media
    Facing the Truth: A Biblical Look at Today's Social Media
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    Facing the Truth: A Biblical Look at Today's Social Media

    By Dr. Tom McMurtry

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    You are now or soon shall be what your friends are!

    This was a powerful statement that I heard a preacher say many years ago. It made me stop and look at the people that I considered as friends. Are they the kind of person that I want to be? Are they the kind of person that my Heavenly Father would want me to associate with? Another good question that I asked myself was, Am I a good friend?

    In those days a person had to have actual personal contact with someone for them to be considered a friend. With todays technology and social media web sites, friendships are growing rapidly. They are having daily contact with many more people.

    A person should always be careful of whom their friends are, but even more in todays fast paced world.

    James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

    God tells us clearly to examine our friendships! This book will help you to take a close look at this new world of quick communication. It will show you Biblically how God will judge your friends list.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 25, 2012
    ISBN9781477240144
    Facing the Truth: A Biblical Look at Today's Social Media
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    Dr. Tom McMurtry

    Dr. Tom McMurtry has been married to his wife Paula for thirty two years. He has raised five children, Tommy II, Kristi, Amy, Kari and Lori. He has five in-law children, Cassandra, Josh, Jon, Aaron and Nick. He also has seven grandchildren, Tommy III, Jason, Abigail, Chloe, Allison, Anna and Joey. Family has always been a real priority in his life and ministry. He has been preaching the Word of God for thirty seven years. He has been the pastor of the Lighthouse Baptist Church in La Salle - Peru, Illinois for the past twenty four years. He has also been an adjunct professor for the past eight years at Providence Baptist College in Elgin, Illinois. He was inspired to write this book from all of his dealings with people who have faced real problems from their experiences on the social networks of the computer. It is our hope that from reading this book people will recognize the dangers of these sites and see how Satan is using them to defeat and destroy the lives of many. Also that people will see the foresight of God Almighty and His many warnings that are given in the Bible that very clearly fit the world we live in today.

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      Facing the Truth - Dr. Tom McMurtry

      Contents

      CHAPTER 1: WHAT GOD HATES MOST 

      CHAPTER 2: SOCIAL NETWORK ADDICTION 

      CHAPTER 3: YOU ARE NOW OR SOON SHALL BE WHAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE 

      CHAPTER 4: WRITE IT, REGRET IT! 

      CHAPTER 5: FACEBOOK ACCOUNTING 

      CHAPTER 6: THE FIRE OF HELL 

      CHAPTER 7: CYBER BUDDY & CYBER BULLY 

      CHAPTER 8: USING WORDS AS A WEAPON 

      CHAPTER 9: FEEDING ON FOOLISHNESS 

      CHAPTER 10: MEDDLERS 

      CHAPTER 11: CREEP INTO HOUSES 

      CHAPTER 12: FORESEEING THE EVIL 

      CHAPTER 13: WHAT WE TAKE PART IN REVEALS WHO WE ARE 

      CHAPTER 14: POURING OUT FOOLISHNESS 

      CHAPTER 15: DELIVERY FROM DANGER 

      CHAPTER 16: FILTHY COMMUNICATION 

      CHAPTER 17: THE CONGREGATION OF EVIL DOERS 

      CHAPTER 18: OUR LIPS ARE NOT OUR OWN 

      CHAPTER 19: ACCEPTABLE COMMUNICATIONS 

      CHAPTER 20: FIXING THE PROBLEM 

      INTRODUCTION

      Dr. Tom McMurtry has been married to his wife Paula for thirty two years. He has raised five children, Tommy II, Kristi, Amy, Kari and Lori. He has five in-law children, Cassandra, Josh, Jon, Aaron and Nick. He also has seven grandchildren, Tommy III, Jason, Abigail, Chloe, Allison, Anna and Joey. Family has always been a real priority in his life and ministry.

      He has been preaching the Word of God for thirty seven years. He has been the pastor of the Lighthouse Baptist Church in La Salle-Peru, Illinois for the past twenty four years. He has also been an adjunct professor for the past eight years at Providence Baptist College in Elgin, Illinois.

      He was inspired to write this book from all of his dealings with people who have faced real problems from their experiences on the social networks of the computer.

      It is our hope that from reading this book people will recognize the dangers of these sites and see how Satan is using them to defeat and destroy the lives of many. Also that people will see the foresight of God Almighty and His many warnings that are given in the Bible that very clearly fit the world we live in today.

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      Thank you to Tim Thurow for his cartoon artwork.

      FACING THE TRUTH

      Dr. Tom McMurtry

      There are many good things that technology has brought to us. We now have much more communication with each other than ever before. Yet with this multiplied communication we now have multiplied the sinful problems that communications bring. At the top of this problem list are computer programs like FACEBOOK and other social media. In the few years that it has been around it has brought about more evil communication than ever before.

      1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

      Matthew 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

      All throughout the Scripture God warns us about our communications, of our fellowship and our friendships. He tells us that these things will determine our futures; yet, so many Christians pay very little attention to what they are involving themselves in. This book will try and show you Biblically why you should avoid these improper communications.

      Ephesians 5:6-12 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

      Notice God warns us about vain words. The definition of vain is Empty, worthless, having no substance, value or importance, proud petty things or of trifling attainment.

      Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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      People are spending hours each day writing and reading about things that are of no value at all or are telling things about themselves that make them the focal point of the day.

      Philippians 2:4-7 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

      This world and this life is not about us, it is about Him, yet the social networking focuses people on themselves.

      Look again at what God tells us. [Ephesians 5:7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them… ]

      God tells us that those who are caught up in the world of empty words should not be a part of our lives. Even if you don’t write words, reading is just as harmful!

      Ephesians 5:11-12 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

      Things that should not be talked about are now open news to thousands of people. In Biblical times to spread bad things a person had to go house to house to do this evil.

      Now it can be sent around the world with the touch of a few buttons.

      1 Timothy 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

      If God warned them not to be so idle in their speech, it makes sense that we should not be as idle as to take our valuable time and read and write about things that God calls empty! Families are facing many difficult times today and many homes are losing their children. They are facing financial difficulties yet they find time to waste on a worthless and empty web site.

      Look at what God says about a Godly woman.

      Proverbs 31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

      Sadly, the only way some children can get to know their parents is to be friends with them on the computer. We have forgotten how to communicate face to face.

      Parents spend very little personal time with their children. Hours of precious time is being wasted, memories are not being made, lessons are not being taught. Why? We don’t have the time for our children but we do for our computer and our texting.

      CHAPTER 1

      WHAT GOD HATES MOST

      Proverbs 6:16-19

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