Kylie Bisutti Left Lingerie Modeling Because of Her Christian Beliefs By Hollie McKay

Kylie Bisutti hit the big time at the tender age of 19 when she beat out 10,000 bikini beauties to win the 2009 Victoria’s Secret Model Search. So why was Bisutti nowhere to be seen during last year’s Victoria’s Secret runway extravaganza?

“Victoria’s Secret was my absolutely biggest goal in life, and it was all I ever wanted career-wise. I actually loved it while I was there, it was so much fun and I had a blast. But the more I was modeling lingerie, and lingerie isn’t clothing, I just started becoming more uncomfortable with it because of my faith,” Bisutti told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “I’m Christian, and reading the Bible more, I was becoming more convicted about it.”

 

The California native, now 21, said that in the wake of baring her body as an Angel, she was also hosting parties, posing for men’s magazines, and craving more and more attention. 

But she was not feeling good about herself.

“My body should only be for my husband and it’s just a sacred thing,” said Bisutti, who had gotten married just before winning the 2009 modeling competition. “I didn’t really want to be that kind of role model for younger girls because I had a lot of younger Christian girls that were looking up to me and then thinking that it was okay for them to walk around and show their bodies in lingerie to guys.

“It was pretty crazy because I finally achieved my biggest dream, the dream that I always wanted, but when I finally got it, it wasn’t all that I thought it would be. Especially being married I just wanted to keep my marriage sacred because divorce rates now in America are pretty high, and I just want to do everything I can to keep my marriage special.”

However, Bisutti hasn’t left the entertainment industry entirely, just the posing in underwear part. She appears with Jennifer Lopez in a new Kohl’s commercial, and she’ll be working on a new show set to air on the CW channel in September. Bisutti says she’s glad she made her career shift, before it was too late. 

“It is a very hard industry to be in without falling into things you don’t want to do,” she said. “I’ve fallen into many things that I wouldn’t have wanted to do, it’s a very tempting industry.”

“My goal is just to be a better role model for the youth, I just want them to see me as somebody that they can look up to and somebody that’s going to be dressing appropriately and I’m not going to get into things that I wouldn’t want them to be getting into,” she added. “I want to go over the top because I don’t think enough people go over the top about how serious all this is.  I just want people to see something different about me because I have that faith and I think it’s so important for everyone to have.”

Deidre Behar contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/02/kylie-bisutti-left-lingerie-modeling-because-it-didnt-mesh-with-her-christian/?intcmp=features#ixzz1lL6ASUvm

More Than Forgiveness · Max Lucado

More Than Forgiveness · Max Lucado.

Unanswered Prayer

The apostle Paul had one overriding desire: that fellow Jews would embrace the Messiah he had encountered. “I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart,” he said. “For I could wish that I myself were . . . cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers” (Rom. 9:2-3 NIV). Yet in city after city his fellow Jews rejected him and the Christ he preached.

In his most elegant letter, Paul set as his centerpiece (Rom. 9–11) a passionate passage in which he struggled openly with this great unanswered prayer of his life. He acknowledged one important side benefit of this distressing development: The Jews’ rejection of Jesus led to His acceptance by the Gentiles. Paul concluded that God hadn’t rejected the Jews; to the contrary, they had the same opportunity as Gentiles. God had widened, not closed, the embrace of humanity.

Paul’s prose began to soar as he stepped back to consider the big picture. And then came this burst of doxology:

Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments
and His ways past finding out! (Rom. 11:33).

The unsolved mysteries and unanswered prayers all fade to gray against the panorama of God’s plan for the ages.

In the end, unanswered prayer brings me face to face with the mystery that silenced Paul: the profound difference between my perspective and God’s.

 

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. —Chambers

http://odb.org/2012/02/12/unanswered-prayer-2/

Tozer Devotional-Present Tense Believing

Present Tense Believing

The book of Acts lays strong emphasis upon steadfastness in the faith, as do the Pauline epistles and the Book of Hebrews. Obviously the apostles conceived the Christian life to be a long tough journey, requiring a lot of faith and determination but ending in glory at last. Neither Christ nor His apostles taught the once-for-all finality of the act of believing so popular among us today. The whole build-up of the usual evangelistic meeting these days is toward the initial act of believing. Once a confession has been extracted from the seeker, a sense of victory seizes on everybody. It is as if a fish had been landed and safely stowed into the basket. The saving act has been performed, and there remains nothing more to be done. Not so taught the apostles or the faithful leaders of the church of God through the centuries. Faith in Christ is not a act to be done and gotten over with as one might get inoculated against yellow fever or cholera. The repentant sinner’s first act of believing in Christ for forgiveness and eternal life is the beginning of a continuous act of believing which lasts throughout life and for all eternity. “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.” These words accord perfectly with the exhortations of Barnabas to the Christians at Pisidia and Antioch: “That with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord . . . confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”

http://www.cmalliance.org/devotions/tozer?id=457

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Are+You+Listening+to+God%3F.

Abortion to Protect the Life of the Mother (Or to Limit the Number of Boys Born)

In the time leading up to the decision in Roe v. Wade, as well as the time right after, the argument was made that abortion would not become a post-conception contraceptive for mothers who simply decided they wanted a boy instead of a girl, or a child with brown eyes instead of blue ones, or a “normal” child instead of a handicapped one, and so forth. Instead, pro-life advocates were told abortion needed to be legal so that it could be a real option for situations where the mother’s life was at risk, or in similar extreme and rare circumstances.

Lucid opponents of the culture of death knew better, but although they stood their ground, abortion supporters celebrated victory with the Supreme Court’s decision in January 1973. And now, Planned Parenthood doesn’t feel the need to hide its real goals the way it did 39 years ago.

Thus, when celebrating the anniversary of Roe v. Wade last month, Angie Murie, executive director of Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region in Canada, actually spoke to gender-based abortions thus:

I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason [for having an abortion]… From a macro perspective, I don’t think it is a good idea for us to be eliminating women. But if you look at it at the individual level, which is what we do, I don’t have any right to say that one person’s reason is better or worse than another’s.

 

Stop and think about this—an executive director from Planned Parenthood, the abortion mammoth that performed 330,000 such heart-stopping “procedures” in America last year, is on record saying it’s not her place to denigrate a woman’s decision to abort a child based on that child’s gender.

In all honesty, how long will it be before an executive director of Planned Parenthood takes a stand with Peter Singer, chairman of the Ethics Department at Princeton University, who has advocated killing children well past birth, to say it’s not her place to denigrate a woman’s decision to kill her child via infanticide if she decides she doesn’t like the color of the baby’s eyes or hair within the first four weeks after the child is born?

We’ve already seen a broadening support for the abortion of handicapped children—mentally or otherwise—as the exaltation of a woman’s “choice” provides an avenue by which Singer’s central argument for abortion and infanticide can take root.

According to Singer:

Pro-life groups are right about one thing: the location of the baby inside or outside the womb cannot make such a crucial moral difference… The solution, however, is not to accept the pro-life view that the fetus is a human being with the same moral status as yours or mine. The solution is the very opposite: to abandon the idea that all human life is of equal worth.

 

The culture of death is not static. It incrementally permeates deeper and further until we find ourselves surrounded death and by those who celebrate it. Therefore, without shame, an executive director of Planned Parenthood says it’s not her place to speak for or against aborting a child because she is a girl.

There are already many millions of women demographically missing from the world because girl babies are not considered of “equal worth.” The Planned Parenthood director may not realize it, but she has already bought into Singer’s argument that all human life is not of equal worth. And once that lie has been embraced, there is no limit to the wickedness one person will commit against another in the name of convenience.

 

 

 

Tags: A Culture of Life , Abortion , Pro-Life

 

Steven Aden

Steven H. Aden is senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (www.telladf.org).

http://townhall.com/columnists/stevenaden/2012/02/11/abortion_to_protect_the_life_of_the_mother_or_to_limit_the_number_of_boys_born/page/full/