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John A. Terry

... the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you." (RSV) ____________ 1. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. 2. God's Psychiatry, p. 157. 3. E.T. Thompson, The Sermon On The Mount. 4. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love (Harper and Row).

2. The Persecuted

John 15:18-27

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John A. Terry

... is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you." (RSV) 1. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. 2. God's Psychiatry, p. 157. 3. E.T. Thompson, The Sermon On The Mount. 4. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love (Harper and Row).

3. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

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Michael Milton

... , Jesus is taking a stand for the least in society. The divorce and remarriage passage that precedes this is connected to this one as a single teaching of Jesus overturning laws and culture norms that hurt women and children. One of my favorite authors, who died recently, was Neil Postman. Some of you are perhaps familiar with this New YorkUniversity professor through his work Technopoly or the classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. But my favorite work of his is The Disappearance of Childhood. In that book ...

4. Imagination

Luke 1:39-45, 46-55

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Will Willimon

... ." Of course, when one begins with the assumption that, "real" only refers to that which can be touched and tasted, reality shrinks, our expectations for what can and cannot be done get scaled considerably down. Neil Postman (Technopoly) sees our preoccupation with computers as evidence of our paucity of imagination. Postman says that the modem world has convinced itself that we have a scarcity of facts. We need more data. Isn't that what our leaders tell us in explanation for why they are reluctant to ...

5. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

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Donald B. Strobe

... us of our “roots.” And this is important. We live in what appears to be a rootless generation. One of the root causes of our rootlessness may well be television. In a recent book called AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH, author Neil Postman says that entertainment has become the American way of life, and that religion, especially on television, has been transformed into just another form of personal amusement. Television, he feels, encourages passivity, irrelevance, and impotence, because it is a “present ...

6. Hidden in Plain Sight

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)

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John N. Brittain

... how controlling what starts out as a tool can become. When does using such tools of the world become worldly and a subversion of the gospel? In his 1986 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, the late Neil Postman warned of a time when the methods and look of television would overtake the church and synagogue. Two decades later anybody who doesn't understand what he was talking about isn't paying attention. Paul goes on, and it becomes clear beginning in verse ...

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