Choose You Netcast - with Jim Langlois

Living in a Fast-Paced Bite-Sized World - Part 1 of 5

In today’s society everybody is vying for your attention. The information age has almost taken over our lives minute by minute – no… second by second! Now, with instant messaging we can have many texts, e-mails, phone calls, phone messages, alerts, reminders, updates, Facebook status updates, Facebook Messenger messages, Pinterests, News updates, Linked-ins, Redbox deals, PerksConnect deals, Tweets, Face Times, Blog Posts, every second, and the list is growing every day. I know – I send them every day! 

Living in a Fast-Paced Bite-Sized World - Part 2 of 5

Luke 8:14–15 (NKJV)
14 Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

Tribulation is the trials and difficulties of life. Maturity to handle these and to effectively walk through them takes time to acquire. Because of improper time priorities, the time to acquire them quickly becomes the time of impatience, discouragement, disappointment, and desperation. We have been so busy with other things and put the things of God on the back burner. Our root connected to Him has withered!

 

Living in a Fast-Paced Bite-Sized World - Part 3 of 5

There are three “thorns” mentioned by Mark - the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things.

1. The cares of this world = distraction
2. The deceitfulness of riches = delusion
3. The desire for other things = defocus

Living in a Fast-Paced Bite-Sized World - Part 4 of 5

Psalm 1:2 (NKJV)
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.

GOOD GROUND

If the ground is the heart… then we could say, “The good ground is the good heart.” If we have to prepare the ground, we could say, “we have to prepare our heart.” If another word for our “heart” is our “spirit,” then, the preparation of our heart is spiritual preparation. If the wayside, the stones, and the thorns, are the hindering issues, then the wayside, the stones, and the thorns represent spiritual hindrances.

Living in a Fast-Paced Bite-Sized World - Part 5 of 5

Psalm 1:2–3 (NKJV)
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.