I just heard Bill Hybels refer to “over-entertained, under-challenged young people”.  He wasn’t disparaging “the kids of today”, but making a point about passion. 

Hybels was asking:  What makes you mad?  What can’t you stand?  Your answer may reveal your Holy Discontent which might be the path to your calling.

For Moses, it was seeing an Egyptian beating a Hebrew.  For David, it was hearing Goliath taunting the armies of the living God.  For Nehemiah it was learning that the walls of Jerusalem were still in ruins and the pagans were laughing at God.

Among the many current issues Hybels named, one that stuck out to me was the “over-entertained, under-challenged young people”.  Except it isn’t just the young people. 

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Flags of Our Fathers is GREAT! I’m talking about the book. I really liked the movie too, but it has been a couple of years since I saw it and the book has me itching to watch it again.

The book by James Bradley is about his father and the five other men who appeared in one of the most famous photographs ever taken – the picture of the American flag being hoisted on Iwo Jima. As I recall, the movie focuses a bit more on the second half of the book, which tells us that the photo was not exactly all that it seemed.

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