Distraction
The Family Discipleship Podcast
The Family Discipleship Podcast
5.0 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
- What is the opposite of distraction?
- Where do you struggle with distraction?
- Is your phone a distraction from being the parent you want to be?
- Is your phone a distraction from being a daughter of God?
- Do you feel resentment towards other when they are distracted by their phones?
- What wisdom does the Lord have for distraction and attention?
- What advice would you give a parent who longs to not be distracted?
- Philippians 2:3-4 and 4:8, Psalm 86:11, 2 Timothy 2:4, Mark 4:18-19
- “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by John Mark Comer
- “The Great Divorce” by C.S. Lewis
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast of Training the Church. |
| 0:13.3 | And if that has become something that is a distraction to your family unity, then put a limit on it or get rid of it. |
| 0:18.8 | And be able to say, I'm sorry, this is what the Lord has called |
| 0:21.0 | me to Matthew 5. If this is leading to sin, it is better to go into heaven without video games |
| 0:26.6 | than wind up in hell with the PS2, you know, modern translation. |
| 0:32.0 | The chemical effects that antidepressants provide is very similar to the chemical changes in a person's brain |
| 0:38.3 | when they talk with someone and it feels like they're being listened to. Take that in for a second. |
| 0:45.0 | Instead of saying like, you can count on me to have heard you the first time and I will get to you, |
| 0:49.2 | we teach our kids that you'll have to yell my name four times before you have my attention. |
| 0:53.6 | And I think there's something to that to say, is that true of me? |
| 1:02.0 | Hey, listeners, this is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my fantastic, fabulous, wonderful |
| 1:06.8 | co-hosts, first, Mrs. Cassie, Bryant. |
| 1:09.9 | How you doing today, Cassie? I'm doing great. A little distracted. Oh, what's distracting you today, Cassie? Let's counsel you through it. As you know, my daughter just called, which means they're working on a homework. I'm sorry, I can't really pay attention to what you're saying. I'm really having a hard time. Is this too campy? This is unplanned, so it's funny, right? I like it when you used to give Cassie those titles. Like the disarmor of distraction or like whatever. Ooh, I like disarmor of distraction. Yeah, you would give her things. The destroyer of distraction, Miss Cassie Bryant. Yes. Yeah. And the woman who distracts me from everything bad in this world. Chelsea Griffin, my wife is here. Chelsea, how you doing? Good. I'm happy to distract you. I think I did those. In season one, I tried to come up with a title that segue the episode with each one of your names, and then I gave up after a little while because it seemed. It's a lot of pressure. Well, it just seemed like it wasn't really resonating with y'all. Oh, I was having a good time. |
| 2:01.8 | You were into it? Yeah, I was totally into it. Okay. I would be interested to go back and see how many times I referenced time a day or food in season one. It's a lot. No, I think it's not as much because we had the qualifiers where you had the kind of matches. Well, I also had some plan. I had more planned banter in season one because we weren't as, |
| 2:18.9 | we're not as adept as we are now. qualifiers or you had the kind of matches. I had more planned banter in season one because we |
| 2:18.2 | weren't as, we're not as adept as we are now. We're so good at banter. We're so good at |
| 2:22.2 | and just being able to talk about whatever. Look at us go. Ready to, hey, I went to the bank this |
| 2:29.1 | week. How about y'all get, oh gosh. Shried up. Was that the beginning of a joke no that was the joke uh no it's a |
| 2:38.1 | reference to a banter joke from an old comedian oh bummer i'm sorry no it's a good example of how |
| 2:45.2 | they're not good at this all right well today's episode we're going to talk about anybody know i know distraction that's episode, we're going to talk about, anybody know? |
| 3:08.2 | I know. Distraction. That's right, distraction. We're talking about distraction. Distraction is a game I play with my children, actually, where I try to get them to look at something and then tickle them or throw something at them. It's a very fun game. But we're not talking about fun games today. We're talking about a vice. something that I would think you guys struggle with, not because I've seen it in you |
| 3:10.3 | because I assume it's common. but we're not talking about fun games today. We're talking about a vice. Something that I would think |
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