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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...

“If people engage in creative and constructive activities during their leisure, civilization is advanced; if they indulge in useless and destructive activities, the social order deteriorates and progress is retarded.”7 He also demonstrates that the humanistic hope for people to use their increasing leisure time wisely has not borne good fruit in practice. As leisure has increased, commercial entertainments have as well. They sap the productive energy of a person without improving him mentally, socially,
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