Essential Non-Essentials

What happens when the things we once considered luxuries become necessities? From internet service and smartphones to prosperity and liberty, conveniences can quietly become dependencies. In “Essential Non-Essentials,” Perry Greene considers Moses’ warning to Israel not to forget God in times of abundance and applies that same warning to America. Blessings can produce comfort, comfort can produce pride, and pride can lead to forgetting. In a culture filled with things we think we cannot live without, there remains only One truly indispensable necessity—God, our Savior and King.