Enjoying the Earth Without Loving the World
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Is it wrong to experience pleasure? Many Christians assume "pleasure" and "sin" are synonymous. Others define godly pleasure so narrowly that they drastically minimize the powerful and Holy role that pleasure can play in their lives. Still others feel guilty even thinking about how to build a life of pleasure. Pastor Gary Thomas invites Christians to embrace a life of true pleasure as a pathway to obedience, worship, and service. Gary provides a theological and inspirational framework to help us cultivate the kind of life that pleases God.
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| 0:00.0 | There are things that are tantalizing you, enchanting, and you're standing in front of |
| 0:07.8 | and you think there might be bad consequences if you push that bunch of things, they don't |
| 0:12.1 | push it, don't push it don't push it but you know |
| 0:13.5 | just like a toddler boy if you stay in front of those buttons it's not a matter of if |
| 0:21.3 | you push them it's a matter of one. |
| 0:25.0 | Today on Focus on the Family we're taking a look at the role of pleasures |
| 0:29.0 | those enchanting buttons that all of us come across in life. |
| 0:33.8 | Our speaker will be Pastor Gary Thomas, and your host is focused president and author |
| 0:38.0 | Jim Daly, I'm John Fuller. |
| 0:40.0 | Gary visited our campus recently and gave a really interesting message to our staff and the title was |
| 0:45.7 | enjoying the earth without loving the world which is a great title. |
| 0:49.7 | I think you're going to find it very thought-provoking. |
| 0:53.0 | Gary will explain how enjoying the gifts God provided us |
| 0:57.2 | can help us reject illicit pleasures that may tempt us. |
| 1:02.0 | This content is from Gary's book called |
| 1:04.0 | Pure Pleasure, Why Do Christians Feel So Bad about Feeling Good? So if you can't stay |
| 1:09.1 | with this, I'd encourage you to get a copy. Yeah and you can get that book from us and partner with us in |
| 1:14.5 | ministry when you request pure pleasure by Gary Thomas look for the link in the |
| 1:19.3 | show notes. Here now is Gary Thomas speaking to our staff on today's focus on the family. |
| 1:25.0 | How is Christians do we face those buttons in our lives? |
| 1:32.0 | At one point in my life, I believe I face it entirely the wrong way. |
| 1:37.0 | I thought pleasure was the problem. |
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