Comments on: Southwestern Union of Seventh-day Adventists Honors Retiring Vice President with Signed Celebrity Luxury Memorabilia https://adventmessenger.org/southwestern-union-of-seventh-day-adventists-honors-retiring-vice-president-with-signed-celebrity-luxury-memorabilia/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 By: Michel Herman https://adventmessenger.org/southwestern-union-of-seventh-day-adventists-honors-retiring-vice-president-with-signed-celebrity-luxury-memorabilia/comment-page-1/#comment-88916 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:44:23 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=24359#comment-88916 How much time is spent by intelligent human beings in horse racing, cricket matches, and ball playing! But will indulgence in these sports give men a desire to know truth and righteousness? Will it keep God in their thoughts? Will it lead them to inquire, How is it with my soul? CT 456.1

Some of the most popular amusements, such as football and boxing, have become schools of brutality…. Other athletic games, though not so brutalizing, are scarcely less objectionable because of the excess to which they are carried. They stimulate the love of pleasure and excitement, thus fostering a distaste for useful labor, a disposition to shun practical duties and responsibilities…. Thus the door is opened to dissipation and lawlessness, with their terrible results. 98Education, 210, 211. FLB 238.4
The true Christian will not desire to enter any place of amusement or engage in any diversion upon which he cannot ask the blessing of God. FLB 238.5

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” James‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬ ‭KJV‬‬

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