Just a little off!

If you have a minute watch this video by John Piper. It's about how preaching today is often distracted by passing trends instead of preached in the power God designed it to be. http://ow.ly/IBVD
Ironically, I found this site after listening to a podcast by a popular preacher about how messed up "The Shack" was. He had some points I agreed with but to use the Sunday morning message to preach an agenda instead of God's word was curious to me...I wasn't sure what I thought about it....it just seemed a little off....you know like when you can tell something is not right but your not sure why. I think that the more we walk in the Spirit the more we learn to recognize things that are "just a little off". And let's face it, we live in a world where we are surrounded by "just a little off" till we have come so far from truth, morality and holiness that we can't really recognize how off we are.
I remember entering college with a bit of a cold heart toward God's word. I knew I wanted to know God but sometimes understanding his word was just too much work. I would sit down for a quiet time and not really get much out of it. So as I went into Bible school my main prayer was "God teach me to love your word". And with that simple prayer the Lord has given me not just a love for it but a need for it like I need food and water to sustain me. God's word is TRUTH. And we are lacking truth today. It get's muddled up with tolerance and fluffy "Norman Vincent Peale" kind of beauty that tricks the average searching heart into being filled up with lies that seem like truth.
I think young people today are most susceptable to it too. They grow up in a school where homosexuality is tolerated because it's the same as accepting someone wiht another ethnicity. They are surrounded by filthy language, dark music and sexual immorality left and right. And it's true for young people all around the world...even in poor countries. Our standards have changed and as young people today we need to be even more adament about knowing how to recognize a truth from a lie. We must walk in the Spirit and be alert when things seem "just a little bit off".