Saturday, June 12, 2010

Best of the week entry 6

Comes from DoodleBlog, the blog of the Timberdoodle homeschool supply company and features a video on the consumerization of our children. I embedded the video below but here is a brief quote from the post Pervasive, Persuasive, Pernicious:

Our gospel community group is currently working through a series on the sovereignty of God in suffering, the content of which goes against all that consumerism promises. Consumerism preaches that it is all about you, what you want, and how to get others to worship you, but the call of Scripture speaks of higher things, “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share His sufferings, becoming like Him in his death,” and “For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in Him but also suffer for His sake.”

Here is the video in question:

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