Tag: peer pressure
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 17:32-19:24 Focus: 1 Samuel 17:33-40 We live in a world where society holds up models and celebrities as the people we should try and become. Beautiful, wealthy, popular, trend-setters, etc. Magazines are filled with models, clothes, accessories, cars, an array of things which will mark you as one of the crowd. They paint a picture of this dream life that you achieve by finding the right guy/or girl, driving the right car, wearing the right clothes and accessories, hanging out in the right place, known and loved by all and, to top it off,…
Cover to Cover Reading: 1 Samuel 15:1-17:31 Focus: 1 Samuel 15:22-25 It’s so easy for us to say, “Serve God, not people.” However, we walk out the front door and we’re confronted with a way of life which must choose to live as the world does, or to live as God desires us to live. Do we succumb to the peer pressure of our friends to join the latest trends? To join in them in their sprees of the must-have items of the month? To be up-to-date on the latest fashion, playing the latest games, following the latest TV series,…
