What brings me pleasure? From what do I derive it? What do I do for enjoyment, entertainment, and\/or fun?<\/p>\n
Two of my answers require from me particular caution and vigilance: reading and Web browsing. If I had TV or some other sort of video, the challenge would be magnified for me.<\/p>\n
That’s why a piece of 2 Thessalonians 2:12 serves me well as both a warning and a reminder:<\/p>\n
“…Had pleasure in unrighteousness.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n I’m not talking about books and other sources whose primary focus is sin, although they are certainly included.<\/p>\n I’m talking about pleasure sources that may be amoral or even moral for the most part but have unrighteousness scattered through them.<\/p>\n I know, I know. Life is life, and life has loads of unrighteousness through it.<\/p>\n But why must my “entertainment” present it?<\/p>\n To be more interesting and realistic.<\/p>\n Fine. My concern stands.<\/p>\n This is a strike against many of contemporary Christian novels.<\/p>\n (Oooops! This post sounds more like a mini-sermon than mere personal devotional meanderings.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What brings me pleasure? From what do I derive it? What do I do for enjoyment, entertainment, and\/or fun? Two of my answers require from me particular caution and vigilance: reading and Web browsing. If I had TV or some other sort of video, the challenge would be magnified for me. That’s why a piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2-thessalonians","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}