“ Excellent message! ” This message is thoroughly grounded in scripture as all preached messages should be. The speaker uses many admonitions to faithfulness based on numerous passages from God's word. If the pulpits of America were sounding forth messages like this, I believe our country would be amazingly transformed. I am thankful that I came across this message!
“ Great Sermons! ” God bless these young men desiring to pursue God. It is such a blessing to see a new generation bringing truth to the world.
They have seen the glory of the Lord and will reveal it to others.
“ A needful admonition ” “One reason I think it is particularly important for us to talk about this now is that we may be the last generation that can remember life before,”
It is revealing that many of these younger technologists are weaning themselves off their own products, sending their children to elite Silicon Valley schools where iPhones, iPads and even laptops are banned.
Nir Eyal, 39, the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products,...“The technologies we use have turned into compulsions, if not full-fledged addictions,” Eyal writes. “It’s the impulse to check a message notification. It’s the pull to visit YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter for just a few minutes, only to find yourself still tapping and scrolling an hour later.” None of this is an accident, he writes. It is all “just as their designers intended”.
If the attention economy erodes our ability to remember, to reason, to make decisions for ourselves – faculties that are essential to self-governance – what hope is there for democracy itself?
“The dynamics of the attention economy are structurally set up to undermine the human will,” he says. “If politics is an expression of our human will, on individual and collective levels, then the attention economy is directly undermining the assumptions that democracy rests on.
“ Great Sermon! ” I have been going through a difficult time in my life. This message really helped me.
I know, l need to put somethings into practice.
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