The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

Last evening I spoke over at Lanier Theological Library on the topic was Jonathan Edwards, a Christian Edenist, H-D-O-N-I-S-T-T-N-I-S-T-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-T-E-S-O-N-I-S-T.

The day before we had a panel on Christian heathenism,

self-denial and the enjoyment of creation. So I'm brimming with Christian

hedonism and want to talk to you about it this morning because I think it's one of the most important things

I could say to you and I think it's the heart or very close to the heart of the biblical message.

But I can imagine somebody hearing the word hedonism with the word Christian stuck on the front of it and feeling something like,

are you kidding me? Don't you realize what happened

180 miles west of here last Sunday in Sutherland Springs.

Do you still want to be cute?

With your little pet phrase?

No, I don't want to be cute. Under the call of God to preach the word of God and under the spirit of God

and

under the spirit of worship that is in this place, I don't do cute.

I don't like cute.

I get angry at churches that do cute. I get angry at churches that do cute.

I'm also aware that between last Sunday and now 7,000 people in America died every day.

And many of them in excruciating pain and probably most of them with no hope of heaven.

And I am aware that Hurricane Harvey may cost your region $190 billion and massive hardship in the lives of thousands.

And I am aware as I preach that Sonoma County wildfires cost California 2.8 billion and ruined 14,000 homes and killed 40 people in the last several weeks.

And I am aware that President Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un go back and forth with their barbs and put us on the brink of nuclear war.

And I am aware that Charlottesville

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