Welcome back to the podcast.

We talked about entertainment on Friday about how much entertainment is too much entertainment.

And today we push the conversation forward a little bit further.

What if entertainment has become an addiction?

How do we get unstuck?

Here's the email for today.

Hello Pastor John, my name is Cesar and I am writing to you from Peru.

I thank the Lord for the blessing that is your ministry to me.

In the past three weeks I have been disturbed by the following situation.

I cannot break my addiction to entertainment.

I'm convinced that the short-lived emotions of entertainment do not compare to the pleasures

found in a deep life of communion with God.

But I can play a video game for three hours and feel my emptiness and dissatisfaction as

a result.

The next day my desire for more entertainment is renewed and this has turned into a horrible

vicious cycle.

I'm very stressed with this situation.

I want to grow spiritually.

I do not want to waste my life in trifles.

Pastor John, what would you say that this is our?

As I prayed for Cesar and what I might say to him, what seemed good to do is to take

three of his statements and show how they're not accurate.

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