Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face.
passion spirituality sexuality sensuality idolatry
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.
sin idolatry
Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
sleep idolatry
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
technology internet addiction idolatry
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
technology gratitude idolatry
Technology presents us with a unique spiritual challenge. Because it is meant to serve us in fulfilling our created purpose, because it makes our lives easier, longer, and more comfortable, we are prone to assign to it something of a godlike status. We easily rely on technology to give our lives meaning, and we trust technology to provide an ultimate answer to the frustration of life in a fallen world. Because of this, technology is uniquely susceptible to becoming an idol, raising itself to the place of God in our lives.
technology idolatry
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
metaphor theology idolatry
The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
time idolatry
Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.
work idolatry
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
anxiety disillusionment idolatry
We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.
worry anxiety idolatry
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
christ idolatry
Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.
worship civilization early idolatry
By giving us control, our new technologies tend to enhance existing idols in our lives. Instead of becoming more like Christ through the forming and shaping influence of the church community, we form, and shape, and personalize our community to make it more like us. We take control of things that are not ours to control. Could it be that our desire for control is short-circuiting the process of change and transformation God wants us to experience through the mess of real world, flesh and blood, face-to-face relationships?
community discipleship idolatry
We always pay dearly for chasing after what is? Cheap.
materialism idolatry
The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader development. Continuing wealth from the single commodity is taken for granted. The government, flush with wealth, is expected to be generous. When the price of that commodity drops, a government which would remain in power dare not cut back on this generosity.
prosperity dependence materialism idolatry
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
gospel worship idols idolatry
What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.
selfishness glory-of-god idolatry
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