The Cyber Effect Is Real, Subtle, and Destructive to Our Families
1. The lady who has ongoing selfie shots as you scroll through her Facebook profile is revealing her heart. In no real-life context would she break out her photo album and show you twenty iterations of herself.
2. The child sequestered off in his room who does not socialize with his family is revealing his heart. He is making a value statement about himself and his family.
3. The couple that goes on a date and stares at their phones is testifying to everyone in the restaurant what they think of each other. Rather than double-dating with other humans, they bring their phones and “talk to their devices” instead of each other.
4. When someone in a meeting with you checks their buzzing phone, they are making a value statement about you. We teach our kids not to interrupt us because it’s not respectful. But we permit our phones to interrupt us, which is inconsistent and disrespectful.
5. A dad comes home from a long day at work and clicks on the TV, or jumps on the Internet, a tablet, or phone. Rather than engaging his family in real-space, he zips off to cyberspace, leaving his family behind, eating his cyber-dust. https://rickthomas.net/what-is-the-cyber-effect-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/
The shocking and inspiring story of Sophie Ottaway.
Watch the full interview here: https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-490-sophie-ottaway-engineered-at-birth-to-be-a-girl/
Focus on the Cause, not the Effect, so you can remove the cause and not be affected by the effect.
A local church’s worship value is not primarily about the music but the lifestyle because you never ask, “Are you worshiping?” The reason is that we worship all the time. God made us for worship—wired us for worship, you could say.
Worship is part of what it means to be image-bearers. Who could do otherwise? The better question is, “What or whom do we worship?” https://lifeovercoffee.com/three-characteristics-of-a-fantastic-local-church/
Whenever a person chooses sinful anger, he is, in effect, giving the other person control over him. It’s counterintuitive. In his anger, he is like a marionette, a puppet on a string.
Anger toward someone is the total submission of their thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and behaviors to the other person. It is not self-control, as governed by the Spirit of God, but someone out of control or under the control of another spirit. https://lifeovercoffee.com/podcast/ep-110-help-for-the-angry-person/
