Ep. 386 - The Collapse of Attention: Why Christians Can’t Focus Anymore
The Living Waters Podcast
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And so I think it's really important that we, especially as Christians, that we are able to redeem |
| 0:06.4 | this idea of silence because that is where God speaks, right? So often, I mean, meditation, |
| 0:13.5 | prayer, solitude, reading of God's word, all of those things take time. You don't sit down, |
| 0:20.2 | imagine this. |
| 0:20.9 | Imagine you're trying to build a relationship. |
| 0:22.1 | Imagine being a father trying to build a relationship with her child. And they're like, all right, child, I'm going to give you 15 minutes a day. Give me everything you got. Tell me everything you want me to tell you about yourself. But after those 15 minutes, get out of here. I'll see you next week. Or I'll see you tomorrow morning. Are you really spending time with that child in that same way? |
| 0:40.3 | Like we do that with God. get out of here, I'll see you next week, or I'll see you tomorrow morning. Are you really spending |
| 0:38.0 | time with that child in that same way? Like, we do that with God. It's like, okay, God, I'm going to |
| 0:43.1 | give you three minutes this morning. That's going to be my time in your word and everything else |
| 0:47.6 | that's going to keep me really busy on my stay distracted from you. Bortem is such an important |
| 0:54.1 | aspect because we give our brains to think. Not only |
| 0:57.4 | do we give our brains to think, but we give our souls an opportunity to hear from God. |
| 1:08.4 | Bray comfort shall not live by bread alone, but he sure lives by bread. |
| 1:15.5 | What kind of bread? |
| 1:16.6 | Sourdough bread. |
| 1:17.9 | I made a note here because I always want to give Rachel just cheers. |
| 1:22.1 | Yes. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm just so proud of her. |
| 1:24.1 | I told her recently her value has gone up as a wife. |
| 1:27.4 | She's baking bread. Is she me here on sourdough? Bro. You haven't brought us any? It has been. What she did made me pleased I had a girl. What are you saying about men baking, huh? Ray? No, no, no. This was just wonderful. See, you guys don't realize. on a restricted diet for about four years where I eat, I can't eat wheat, which is everything. And so I've just had to be very disciplined because if I go off it, then you get heartburn immediately and you get a lack of energy within an hour. You just feel like crying. You're so tired. It was horrible. And so I've been eating flax bread. You know what |
| 2:01.1 | that tastes like? Flax? Flax. Yeah, it tastes like you've got two layers of thick rope and you |
| 2:06.5 | put a lot of butter in between. And so Rachel made me about two, three weeks ago, try some sour |
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