Let's not beat around the bush. Hip-hop artist and producer Kayne West has major issues, and anyone who continues to buy into his verbal nonsense is helping to grow an empire that deteriorates everything believers stand for.

Too harsh? Over dramatic? Take a look at the latest slap in the face to the left. That's the hero of millions of fans posing as Jesus Christ on the latest cover of Rolling Stone. Bruised chin, bloodied cheek, crown of thorns and all. If you are not instantly offended, something's not connecting upstairs.

As much as I want to, I can't get too worked up about this. It's just the latest example of general media pushing the envelope to get everyone worked up and talking. After all, that's their goal right? As long as you're mentioning their name, the low blow was worth the effort.

Fortunately, the kingdom these media moguls build will be long forgotten by the end of the decade.

It is frustrating to watch people like this gain popularity in the press. Kayne will be joining Stevie Wonder, Joss Stone and John Legend during the upcoming Superbowl Halftime Show. I encourage you to turn off the TV and enjoy your company for 30 minutes. Another high profile urban artist, R. Kelly, continues to face charges of child pornography, but he's enjoying his best selling album to date. The movie Brokeback Mountain is the most visually explicit gay love story every brought to the mass audience, and it continues to gain popularity at the box office along with multiple awards and nominations.

It seems at every corner, our everyday values are being attacked and challenged more and more. Yet, I have conversations every week with Christians online, both young and old, who are able to look past the "shortcomings" of these movies, artists and authors and support them by buying into the products.

We have to force ourselves to be surrounded by media that will not challenge our beliefs. We need to support Christian music and Christian retail. We need to go see quality family films. And then we need to throw away those albums that contain profanity and sexully explicit content and discontinue subscriptions to magazines that allow artists the opportunity to play dress up and wear a crown of thorns. Sickening.