Why I don’t have a television and rarely go to movies

Posted on June 27, 2009 
Filed under Opinion

Piper on TV“But leave sex aside (as if that were possible for fifteen minutes on TV). It’s the unremitting triviality that makes television so deadly. What we desperately need is help to enlarge our capacities to be moved by the immeasurable glories of Christ. Television takes us almost constantly in the opposite direction, lowering, shrinking, and deadening our capacities for worshipping Christ. …”

– John Piper challenges Christians to consider the influence of what they watch – at Desiring God.