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Don’t Waste Your Life (Part 7): Entertainment and Social Media

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  • G. W. Van der Wal

What is a purposeful life? It is found in proper time management. This article explains the impact of entertainment and social media on the responsible use of time.

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How to Use Leisure Time: Loving Admonitions

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  • Joel R. Beeke

How should Christians think about leisure time or recreational time? Is there a room for entertainment in the Christian life? This article offers eight warnings to heed in relation to the use of leisure time.

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How to Use Leisure Time: Biblical Principles

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  • Joel R. Beeke

How should Christians think about leisure time or recreational time? Is there a room for entertainment in the Christian life? This article offers five principles that must govern Christians as they think about these questions.

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Crass Christianity What happens when the Great Commission becomes a marketing manifesto?

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  • John MacArthur

Can entertainment bright about church growth? This article shows what happens when the church adopts pragmatism.

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Is Television Really So Bad?

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  • Joel R. Beeke

This article looks at the role of TV and the entertainment it gives in relation to time, promotion of sin, and controlling people. It calls Christians to consider the use of television.

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The Call to Create Culture

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  • Joel Pelsue

Based on Exodus 31 this article discusses the calling of Christians in relation to arts and entertainment. It also discusses hindrances for Christians in using arts and entertainment to create a culture.

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Sex on the Screen Silver Screen – Outsourcing Depravity

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  • Tim Challies

Should Christians watch nudity scenes and sex scenes on television as part of their entertainment? This article argues that watching such scenes is like outsourcing depravity. It is allowing unbelievers violate the law so we can enjoy the benefits.

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How Much Entertainment Is Too Much?

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  • Tim Challies

Should Christians shun entertainment? This article argues that Christians can enjoy entertainment purposefully, as a means of achieving rest.

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Stuck in Adolescence?

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  • Cornelis van Dam

The culture is stuck in adolescence. In its desire for more entertainment, novelty, emotions, and feelings, it has remained a juvenile culture. This article shows how this attitude has also affected the church. In seeking to be attractive to the youth, the church has remained in adolescence. This article maps a way forward to recover from this and be grown-ups.

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American Idols

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  • R. C. Sproul Jr.

Is the adoration of famous personalities in the entertainment industry - such as TV, movie, or sports stars - idolatry?

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Church Statements on Amusements

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What attitude should Christians have towards amusement and entertainment? The entertainment we engage in has an impact on our relationship with God and others.

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What Every Parent Should Know About the Internet (8) - News & Views

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  • David Clark

This article looks at how the Internet has shaped the way news is received. The danger exists that the news becomes simply a means of entertainment. On the other hand, Christians can utilize the internet as a tool for evangelism.

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Lovers of God Rather Than Lovers of Pleasure A Christian Approach to Pleasure in an Entertainment Culture

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  • Jacques Roets

What does good entertainment look like? And what do guilty pleasures look like? This article looks at entertainment and the Christian life.

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Moving Pictures: Theologizing At The Movies

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  • John M. Frame

This article shows that entertainment, movies, the film industry, and media all convey a message, which includes ideologies, values, world-view, philosophy, and theology. The author discusses how he reviews movies in order to understand their theology and message. 

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Television and the Christian

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  • John Rogers

How should Christians think about television and entertainment today?

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Slavery to Entertainment

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  • John Rogers

Are we enslaved to entertainment and amusement?

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The Art of Constructive Loafing

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  • J. De Vos

This article is about idleness, work ethic, rest, and entertainment. The author also discusses Weber's view of the Calvinistic work ethic.

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Christians, Holiness, and Popular Entertainment

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  • Charles M. Wingard

This article is about sin and holiness in entertainment.

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Taming Television Can it be Done?

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  • Frederika G. Oosterhoff

This article is about the television as medium and looks at entertainment and the need for critical thinking.

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Christians and Sports

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  • David W. Kiester

This article is about work and recreation/entertainment. Sport and Sunday sport is also discussed.

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The Christian Mind in the Church

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  • Nicolaas H. Gootjes

In this article on the Christian mind, the author discusses the place of the mind in Christianity. He also discusses entertainment and visual formats, and the importance of Christian thinking for the church.

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Leisure Time and the Christian Life-Style

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  • Yul Krikke

This article looks at leisure time, entertainment and the Christian life-style.

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Competition and Sports

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  • Nick VanDooren

This article looks at sport as religion, sport as competition, and sport as entertainment.

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I Hate my Generation

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  • Shane Rosenthal

This article is about our desire for entertainment and our lack of reading and knowledge today.

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Don't Read a Newspaper, Read a Book

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  • Jon Dykstra

This article is about the bias in the media, media and entertainment, and media and Christianity.

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Our Children and Entertainment

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  • George P. van Popta

In this article about our children and entertainment, the image of children is also discussed.

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Do our children really enjoy going to church?

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  • K. De Vries

This article is about the worship service and having the right attitude in the worship service. The author also looks at the worship service and entertainment. (principles of worship)

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All the care in the world will not make us continue a minute beyond the time God has appointed. J. C. Ryle
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