{"id":62,"date":"2007-05-07T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/07\/mowing-the-lawn-with-mars-hill\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T04:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:39:50","slug":"mowing-the-lawn-with-mars-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/mowing-the-lawn-with-mars-hill","title":{"rendered":"Mowing the Lawn with Mars Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last four years I have paid a lawn https:\/\/ziehlerlawncare.com<\/a> service to mow my yard to free me up to work the three jobs I have.\u00a0 After paying more than $600 per summer for the last four years I decided to forego the lawn service and do it myself.\u00a0 I discovered that the time I didn’t think I had to waste<\/em> on yard work has turned into a valuable investment with great returns. Mowing my own yard had some unexpected benefits.<\/p>\n

For one, I never anticipated actually enjoying<\/em> the work.\u00a0\u00a0My yard is large; it\u00a0takes about two hours to mow with a standard push mower.\u00a0 Starting my Saturday’s early with physical work has had emotional, spiritual and physical benefits.\u00a0 It feels good to be outside, under the sun, accomplishing something of value.<\/p>\n

But the real benefit comes from something I have until now never had much use for: a portable CD player.\u00a0 For several years I’ve subscribed to Mars Hill Audio Journal <\/a>on CD.\u00a0 Normally I will listen to the two CDs I receive every other month while commuting to work.\u00a0 For the last two Saturday’s I’ve listened to them while mowing my yard, making the labor not only productive physically, but allowing me to exercise my mind, as well. Ken Myers, the host and producer of Mars Hill Audio Journal, is an excellent interviewer on wide ranging subjects. I consider his work the antidote to the scandal of the evangelical mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mowing my lawn with Mars Hill has caused me to reconsider the value of the iPod. I’ve never owned one, though I’ve purchased one for each of my kids.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll take half my savings from mowing the yard myself this summer\u00a0 and invest it in one of those ubiquitous devices so that I, too, can be hip and cool.\u00a0 Maybe my church’s attendance will begin to increase when people find out just how hip and cool I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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