Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, March 12th.

For Christians, godly thoughts are key to godly actions.

Today's podcast looks at Colossians chapter 3 to find help for setting your mind on things above.

Do you ever have problems struggling with your thoughts, maybe thoughts that you shouldn't have,

and maybe thoughts about people, whatever it might be? Sometimes you just allow your mind to sort of

drift over into unforgiveness, pride, lust, anger, all kind of attitudes and all kind of thoughts in your mind that you know are not

very good. And so when these thoughts come in your mind, how do you respond to that? Do you get some

sense of satisfaction about thinking something that's not right? Do you feel guilty about it?

Do you feel like, well, I just can't help myself?

Or do you say, the devil made me do it?

And so think about this.

You and I live in a society and in a time, in a culture, that our minds are continuously bombarded by what?

Things that we see on the television and the movies, things we read in the newspapers,

things or other things that we read, for example, words that you hear, sites that you see, our mind is always

receiving all of these things. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's not so good. The question is,

how can you and I live a godly life and think right when we live in a world

that's throwing all of these things that are not right at our mind?

And what they want us to do is to think the way they think.

Why do you think they spend billions of dollars on advertising?

Why, they want to convince you to think the way they're thinking, and that is,

you ought to buy their product. Or you ought to go where they want you to go and buy what

you want to buy, whatever it might be. Their idea is to program your thinking to think that you

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