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Why I Don't Have a Television and Rarely Go to Movies

Jun 25, 2009 ... Why I Don't Have a Television and Rarely Go to Movies from the Desiring God
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Topic: The Power & Effects of Sin
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Sermons

The War Against the Soul and the Glory of God

If the world believed this, the newspaper and the television and the theater and
the university and popular music and industry mission statements and ...

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Topic: Sanctification & Growth  |  Series: 1 Peter: Grow in the Grace & Knowledge of Christ
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Chapter 7: Living to Prove He Is More Precious Than Life

Television is one of the greatest life-wasters of the modern age. ... What is
happening in America is that television is transforming all serious public ...

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Articles

Advice to Pastors: How to Help Your People Be More Satisfied in ...

9) Help your people to turn off the television. Few things in our culture are
more spiritually numbing than the television. Even the so-called "good" shows
...

Topic: Pastoral Ministry
ResourceLibrary/Articles/ByDate/1996/1504_Advice_to_Pastors_How_to_Help_Your_People_Be_More_Satisfied_in_God/... - 27k

Ask Pastor John

Is direct human contact important in evangelism and church life ...

With all the diffferent mediums for spreading the gospel--like radio, internet
and television--do we need to be careful to preserve some direct human ...

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Topic: Evangelism
ResourceLibrary/AskPastorJohn/ByTopic/7/2392_Is_direct_human_contact_important_in_evangelism_and_church_life/... - 26k

Sermons

Sky Talk

Summer Psalms

Television and movies have conspired to make us disenchanted with ... Well, my
suspicion is that television in general does not train active seeing but ...

Topic: Creation  |  Series: Summer Psalms
ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/1980/252_Sky_Talk/ - 47k

Conference Messages

Training the Next Generation of Evangelical Pastors and ...

The Evangelical Theological Society

... what will be my vigilance regarding television in the privacy of my room,
will I rise early enough to pray concerning the magnitude of truth that is at
...

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Topic: Pastoral Ministry
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Sermons

Forget Not All His Benefits

... no cars, no video cassettes or tape cassettes, no television, no radio, ...
after the radio and the television and the sound system and the computer. ...

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Topic: Worship
ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/1991/763_Forget_Not_All_His_Benefits/... - 36k

Sermons

Grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of Our Lord

I know that 98% of you have televisions, and in 1971 the average adult in
America watched 23 hours a week. I believe John Stott is right in his new book
on ...

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Topic: Sanctification & Growth  |  Series: Precious & Magnificient Promises: Nine Sermons on...
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Biographies

The Pastor as Theologian

Life and Ministry of Jonathan Edwards

And by that I don't mean we shouldn't preach about nitty-gritty practical things
like parenthood, and divorce and AIDS and gluttony and television and sex. ...

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Topic: Christian Biography
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Sermons

Adam, Christ, and Justification, Part 4

It stares us in the face from the newspaper or from television every day: death
... Wisdom is shouting in the street - from the papers and the televisions. ...

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Topic: Imputed & Original Sin  |  Series: Romans: The Greatest Letter Ever Written
ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/2000/24_Adam_Christ_and_Justification_Part_4/... - 41k

Sermons

Blessed Are the Merciful

The Lord wants us to pinch ourselves again and again lest we be found swooning
in front of the television, making no plans for the weighty matter of mercy. ...

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Topic: Sanctification & Growth  |  Series: The Beatitudes
ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/1986/531_Blessed_Are_the_Merciful/... - 43k

Blog Post

why i don't have a television and rarely go to movies

June 25, 2009  |  By: John Piper
(author: john piper). now that the video of the q&a at advance 09 is available,
i can look at it and feel bad all over again. here's what i regret, ...

Category: DG Resources
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why i don't have a television and rarely go to movies

john piper gives a different answer than the one he gave at advance09.

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As Nice As They Let Me, As Mean As They Make Me

I preached with all my heart to those who could fit in the chapel, and to the
rest by closed circuit television. G.B. (and three others on Death Row) told ...
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Taste & See Articles

Encouraging You to Come to the Desiring God National Conference on ...

The need for a God-centered vision is even more clear when you listen to
television and radio commentators speak about God. If they stumble over such a
...

Topic: The Sovereignty of God
ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2005/1305_Encouraging_You_to_Come_to_the_Desiring_God_National_Conference_on_Suffering_and_the_Sovereignty_of_God/... - 28k

Taste & See Articles

Violence, Ugliness, and Thanksgiving

Television's heros are increasingly vicious in their sacrilege. Amanda Donohoe,
the actress who plays C.J. in L.A. LAW not only opens a show with a lesbian ...

Topic: Gratitude
ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/1991/3932_Violence_Ugliness_and_Thanksgiving/... - 26k

Taste & See Articles

Martin Luther King, Birmingham, and the Great Letter

... park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up
in her eyes when she's told that Funtown is closed to colored children, ...

Topic: Racial Harmony
ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2005/1280_Martin_Luther_King_Birmingham_and_the_Great_Letter/... - 28k

Taste & See Articles

Saturday Night at the Manse

As we walked in the quietness I thought back to my teenage years when I used to
gorge myself on television. I thought about all those Saturday nights when I ...

Topic: Worship
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