Later when Jack started flipping through the channels, the movies we found on TV contained excessive profanity and violence, sex scenes (between unmarried couples, of course), and women dressed in skin-tight clothes with plenty of cleavage showing. Out of the dozens of channels available, we couldn’t find one decent movie. Instead, we watched a program about the Hubble telescope.

During a commercial break I said, “Doesn’t anyone have any shame anymore? The TV and movies are bad enough, but yesterday when I took the kids to the pool, we saw teenage girls and even grown women wearing bikinis that barely covered them. And the language some of the people were using! It makes me want to keep the kids in a bubble sometimes.”

Gone are the days of Leave It to Beaver and Little House on the Prairie. Now instead of seeing positive father figures like Ward Cleaver and Charles Ingalls on TV, we see the likes of Homer Simpson and others. Modesty and common sense have been replaced by downright shamelessness. But God’s Word still says the same thing it did thousands of years ago: “I will not set anything worthless before my eyes” (Ps. 101:3). And Colossians 3:8 tells us, “Put away . . . filthy language from your mouth.” The world’s standards may change, but God’s Word and His expectations for His people do not.