Comments on: Television, Movies, the Internet, Power Outages, and Christianity http://thepreacher.cac2.net/2007/02/28/television-movies-the-internet-power-outages-and-christianity/ Fear God and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man - Ecclesiastes 12:13 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Horn http://thepreacher.cac2.net/2007/02/28/television-movies-the-internet-power-outages-and-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Horn Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:49:24 +0000 http://thepreacher.cac2.net/2007/02/28/television-movies-the-internet-power-outages-and-christianity/#comment-515 Some suggestions of things to replace it with: 1. Hospitality - Regardless of how well media excites the lust of our eyes, the pride of life and the lusts of the flesh, it will never surpass the enjoyment of fellowshipping with believers or doing God's work in evangelizing the lost by having someone who doesn't know the Lord in your home. 2. Reading God's word - How much of the time of Christians is spent studying meaningless things like statistics of ball players rather than studying God's word? Why not learn things with eternal consequences than studying things that are as meaningful as the gossip page of a newspaper from five years ago. 3. Meditating on God's word - God tells us to meditate on His word night and day. He doesn't tell us to do this to encourage our boredom, but because through it He reveals truth about Himself that are more amazing than the most recent action packed movie. Because of our depravity, we constantly want to call evil what God calls good and good what God calls evil. God's ways really are better than our ways and as far above them as the heaven is above the earth. We should stop chasing the what the world calls fun and start seeking after what God calls fun and we will find that He was right and we are wrong. Some suggestions of things to replace it with:

1. Hospitality – Regardless of how well media excites the lust of our eyes, the pride of life and the lusts of the flesh, it will never surpass the enjoyment of fellowshipping with believers or doing God’s work in evangelizing the lost by having someone who doesn’t know the Lord in your home.

2. Reading God’s word – How much of the time of Christians is spent studying meaningless things like statistics of ball players rather than studying God’s word? Why not learn things with eternal consequences than studying things that are as meaningful as the gossip page of a newspaper from five years ago.

3. Meditating on God’s word – God tells us to meditate on His word night and day. He doesn’t tell us to do this to encourage our boredom, but because through it He reveals truth about Himself that are more amazing than the most recent action packed movie.

Because of our depravity, we constantly want to call evil what God calls good and good what God calls evil. God’s ways really are better than our ways and as far above them as the heaven is above the earth. We should stop chasing the what the world calls fun and start seeking after what God calls fun and we will find that He was right and we are wrong.

]]> By: Horn http://thepreacher.cac2.net/2007/02/28/television-movies-the-internet-power-outages-and-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-1390 Horn Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:49:00 +0000 http://thepreacher.cac2.net/2007/02/28/television-movies-the-internet-power-outages-and-christianity/#comment-1390 Some suggestions of things to replace it with: 1. Hospitality - Regardless of how well media excites the lust of our eyes, the pride of life and the lusts of the flesh, it will never surpass the enjoyment of fellowshipping with believers or doing God's work in evangelizing the lost by having someone who doesn't know the Lord in your home. 2. Reading God's word - How much of the time of Christians is spent studying meaningless things like statistics of ball players rather than studying God's word? Why not learn things with eternal consequences than studying things that are as meaningful as the gossip page of a newspaper from five years ago. 3. Meditating on God's word - God tells us to meditate on His word night and day. He doesn't tell us to do this to encourage our boredom, but because through it He reveals truth about Himself that are more amazing than the most recent action packed movie. Because of our depravity, we constantly want to call evil what God calls good and good what God calls evil. God's ways really are better than our ways and as far above them as the heaven is above the earth. We should stop chasing the what the world calls fun and start seeking after what God calls fun and we will find that He was right and we are wrong. Some suggestions of things to replace it with:

1. Hospitality – Regardless of how well media excites the lust of our eyes, the pride of life and the lusts of the flesh, it will never surpass the enjoyment of fellowshipping with believers or doing God’s work in evangelizing the lost by having someone who doesn’t know the Lord in your home.

2. Reading God’s word – How much of the time of Christians is spent studying meaningless things like statistics of ball players rather than studying God’s word? Why not learn things with eternal consequences than studying things that are as meaningful as the gossip page of a newspaper from five years ago.

3. Meditating on God’s word – God tells us to meditate on His word night and day. He doesn’t tell us to do this to encourage our boredom, but because through it He reveals truth about Himself that are more amazing than the most recent action packed movie.

Because of our depravity, we constantly want to call evil what God calls good and good what God calls evil. God’s ways really are better than our ways and as far above them as the heaven is above the earth. We should stop chasing the what the world calls fun and start seeking after what God calls fun and we will find that He was right and we are wrong.

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