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Upright Downtime: Making Wise Choices about Entertainment is unavailable, but you can change that!

How should Christians have fun? When God created human beings, He gave them the capacity and desire for pleasure. Human entertainment can glorify the Lord by expressing joy and creativity. But when unrestrained, it often degenerates into self-gratification. Living in a society that pursues and worship pleasure, believers today often struggle with a right view of entertainment. How much time...

but ultimately prevents me from going deeper in my relationships with my family, my friends, and most importantly with God.”6 Both entertainment and meditation aim for the same objective through different means. Both strive to produce rest and to provide diversion. Moreover, God created both to exist. However, entertainment provides an easier, more immediate, tangible pleasure that often drowns out meditation. It substitutes an important but lesser physical rest for a more important spiritual and
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