CONNECTED, BUT ALONE? A VIDEO BY SHERRY TURKLE [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 102]

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CONNECTED, BUT ALONE? A VIDEO BY SHERRY TURKLE [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 102]

By Marc on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 | No Comments

Brothers and sisters, “The feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us… We’re letting (technology) take us places we don’t want to go…” “..(O)ur fantasies of substitution have cost us…What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.” The video is right below this short introduction. And so cultural analyst and professor Sherry Turkle makes the effective case that we’re losing it…what is “it?” The fabric of human connection and the solitude needed to develop this God ordained holy activity that is the way He prescribed the advancement and completion of His Kingdom through His Lord Jesus. Emails. Texts. Social Media. Avatars. Robot companions. Virtual reality. Customized lives. Rush. Rush. Rush. Hide. Hide. Hide. This is not what God intended. As I say often, if Jesus Christ needed captured electricity to advance and [...]

MY WAYS ARE NOT YOUR WAYS – HUMANS CAN’T AFFORD TO GET THIS WRONG – A SHORT VIDEO [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 101]

By Marc on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 | No Comments

Brothers and sisters, The Creator God is so high, so lofty, so humble, so loving, so merciful, and even so wrathful and angry that we humans, His crowning achievement as His bride, can never know Him completely on this side on heaven. Yet, as He chooses to live in the hearts of creatures that still sin, we look through a glass darkly as we gain more and more insight into His heart…and His terrible wrath. Certain messages from the brethren resonate in ways few do, and this is one of them. Our brother Francis Chen seeks to describe the indescribable in this short video… …if God, the infinite God who hides oak trees in acorns, who turns drunken, drug invested rapists into tender, tear stained evangelists, who places more molecules in one glass of water than all the grains of sand on all the earth’s beaches… …if this God chooses [...]

EVANGULLIBLE: SO-CALLED CHRISTIANS & THEIR LEADERS WHO ARE EASILY TRICKED [AT THE BATTLE FRONT 100]

By Marc on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 | No Comments

Brothers and sisters, More provoking modern day definitions… EVANGULLIBLE [ee-van guhl’-uh-buhl] [Evangelical: 1525–35; < Late Latin evangelicus (< Late Greek euangelikós; see evangel1 , -ic) + -al1] [Gullible: easily taken in or tricked; earlier cullibility, probably connected to gull, a cant term for "dupe, sucker.” It is perhaps from the bird (see gull (n.), or from verb gull "to swallow" (1530, from O.Fr. goule, from L. gula "throat.")] Evangelicals easily tricked by teachers/teachings that seem to be biblical but are not. Evangelicals who are too credulous, unwary, vulnerable, trusting and naïve, lacking in basic biblical discernment, especially when it comes to discerning wolves in sheep’s clothing and noticing that there are leaders who talk out of both sides of their mouths (Matt. 7:15). Evangelicals who are beguiled by the subtleties of the serpent, whose minds are

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