ISBN: 9781933392011 Year Added to Catalog: 2006 Book Format: Hardcover Book Art: Index Number of Pages: 6 x 9, 232 pages Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Old ISBN: 1933392010 Release Date: April 27, 2006 Web Product ID: 289
Pages 2-3: Dr. Sleeth asks which of the gadgets invented in the last 50 years “enrich your souls, and which only generate background noise?” List at least three inventions that distract you from your relationship with God.
Page 26-27: Read aloud 2 Corinthians 10:12. When we are uncertain about how to behave in any environmental or other moral situation, what central question should we ask ourselves?
Page 46: Psalm 46:10 gives us a prescription for depression, one that does not include malls and materialism: Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 23 tells us to lie down in green pastures and beside still waters. When is the last time that you sat in a place with nothing manmade in sight and glorified God?
Page 48: Read aloud the opening passage from James 2:14 and 26. Name two actions you could take this week (e.g., recycling newspapers, changing five lightbulbs to energy saving ones, hanging a load of laundry on the line, etc.) that would move you from believing that people should be good stewards of God’s earth to doing something to help conserve creation.
Page 69-70: List at least three ways you can “lighten up” and simplify your material belongings, both your own personal possessions and throughout your house.
Page 79-83: Do you honor the Sabbath and keep it holy by not working (or shopping, doing homework, or going to games)? What factors are keeping you from observing the Sabbath? What are three things you can make a habit of doing throughout the week in order to honor the Lord’s day?
Page 109-110: What factors in the American obsession with team sports might keep us away from God? Name at least three ways that sports use resources that might be better spent in advancing His Kingdom.
Page 132: How many garbage bags does your family put out every week? Name at least five changes that Dr. Sleeth’s family made to cut their trash production back by four fifths.
Pages 169-169: Name four common misconceptions about world population.
Page 183: Read aloud the last paragraph of this chapter. What loving acts of faith—what changes and sacrifices—will you commit to so you can hand your great grandchildren a world as good as —or better than—the one you got?
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