Charissa fong sermons on love

I think nearly everyone agrees that we live in the fastest paced society of all time, where everything happens at the click of a mouse, the push of a button, even the literal blinking of an eye.

Everything is as close to instantaneous as possible, and if something doesn’t happen quickly, we set about to make it so—two-minute noodles, instant mashed potatoes and instant oats (I love food!), etc.

Charissa fong sermons on love

And while it’s great that we can do things more quickly, it’s also true that we’ve increased our workload and, by extension, our level of stress. Statistics tell us that most dads are so busy they spend less than 20 seconds a day of quality time talking with their children.

The impact this has on the family unit and the wider community is both significant and concerning.

As Dr Bob Moorehead, a former pastor of Seattle’s Overlake Christian Church, puts it in The Paradox of Our Age, “The paradox of our time in history is that we spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less.

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