Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Shannon Tweed, 54 yrs old, has been with Gene Simmons 27 years and raised two children with him.
The series I have been doing on “Advice to Gene Simmons” that I am starting what I am calling “Tip Tuesday.” For the next few months we will be looking at the Simmons family.
The Sacrificing Husband (John MacArthur)
Uploaded by JohnMacArthurGTY on Sep 8, 2010
http://www.gty.org/Blog …The world tells husbands, “Don’t let anyone tell you what to do. Be a macho man. Grab the gusto. Live for the moment.” The Bible’s message to husbands is exactly the opposite—”Crucify yourself.” Here’s how Paul put it in Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for her.” That raises a question: Even a great Christian husband, on his best day, can’t match Christ’s loving sacrifice for the church. What does Paul expect? John MacArthur answers…
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In his therapy session with Dr. Ann Wexler, Gene continued to make the point that his behavior is defensible because his meeting was, at the end of the day, something that would result in more money in the bank.
Dr. Wexler saw it differently.
“I think that lots of times when you do things when you’re not considering her or other people, you use making money as an excuse. As a defense. It’s like, if you’re making money then a lot of your behavior is excused.
And I don’t think making money excuses a lot of your behavior.”
“You don’t?” asks Gene in disbelief.
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What is going on here with Gene Simmons is very clear. He goes on tours and is guilty of having affairs and he justifies it because he is keeping up the hard rock image that he has always had. This brings in money and that is why he keeps pointing that out and trying to say that by bringing in the money he is showing his love toward his family. However, the truth is that he is using as an excuse to have affairs.
Now it seems his whole world is caving in on him because his wife has left him and his kids have condemned him for not doing the right thing.
On these tours he is putting himself in a position that makes it easy for him to fall morally. That should be avoided at all costs. My former pastor Adrian Rogers used to have a sign on his desk which said, “If you don’t want to fall then don’t walk in slippery places.”
Brandon Barnard, who is a teaching pastor at Fellowship Bible Church here in Little Rock in his message on July 24, 2011 made the point that we should WORK TO ELIMINATE EXPOSURE TO SEXUAL PRESSURES AND INCREASINGLY EMBRACE THE PROMISES OF GOD.
Then Brandon read through the following scriptures.
Philippians 4:8-9
English Standard Version (ESV)
8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Matthew 5:27-30
English Standard Version (ESV)
Job 31:1
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Job 31
1I DICTATED a covenant (an agreement) to my eyes; how then could I look [lustfully] upon a girl?
Psalm 101:3
English Standard Version (ESV)
3I will not set before my eyes
anything that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.
Matthew 5:8
English Standard Version (ESV)
8“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Romans 8:6
English Standard Version (ESV)
6For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
The Daily Hatch 