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Your Addiction to Being Online? It’s Part of the Design
When you feel like you can’t stop checking Facebook every 5 minutes, when you stare at your iPhone despite knowing you’re being rude in doing so, when you lie awake at night on Instagram even though you’ve made up your conscious mind not to do so . . . these things are happening because engineers have set out to manipulate you. They have control over you. Real control. None of it is an accident, and all of it is done because it is profitable.
Dependency and the Power of God
While we can look at this modern western life dependent on electricity and say “first world problems,” it can also teach us some things about dependence. We are raised in an independent society that tells us not to rely on anyone or anything but yourself. If we take a quick look at our lives, we will see we are dependent, even when we claim we are not.
How often do you find yourself measuring your faith and godliness in relation to that of a fellow brother or sister—or even an unbeliever’s? How often do you compare yourself to another believer by the church that they go to or the amount of ministry activities that they do?
But when we compare ourselves to other people we fall into two big problems: comparing down, and comparing up.
Growth in personal holiness is largely determined by our progress in self-discipline. Without this foundational discipline, there can be no advancement in grace. Before other disciplines can be administered, whether in the home, business, or church, there first must be self-discipline.
Does the Reality of Evil Disprove the Existence of God?
Josue Aguilar 