Well, after you write a book and the book gets published, what follows is a season of travel.

You get asked to speak at churches and speak at conferences on the topic of your new book.

That's generally how it works.

And I wrote a little book on life inside our media culture, it's called competing spectacles

is the title.

And once that book was out, I got asked to speak on the topic to explain what it means

to live out the Christian life inside this age of viral video, addictive gaming, blockbuster

movies, and endless feeds of new social media.

And as I labor to summarize my main points into one message, I returned over and over

again to what has now become for me the most important verse in the whole Bible on why

we have attention.

Why did God make us to focus on things?

Why do we have an appetite for media?

Why are we the only creatures who can be glued to a screen all day long?

The answer is in Hebrews 2.1, a verse that follows right after Hebrews chapter 1, an entire

chapter full of the supremacy of Christ.

And following that chapter on Christ's supremacy comes the first verse of chapter 2, which

says this, therefore, so in light of all the crisis for us in chapter 1, therefore we must

pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.

It's an incredibly relevant and important text for us inside the attention economy as

it's now called.

Well, my friend Dan here at Desiring God was listening through the John Piper sermon

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