{"id":42382,"date":"2022-09-15T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/commentary-staying-on-point\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T06:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:06:31","slug":"commentary-staying-on-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/commentary-staying-on-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Staying On Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Commentary: Staying On Point <\/p>\n<h3> #1405c<br \/> John W. Ritenbaugh <br \/>Given 11-Nov-17; 13 minutes <\/h3>\n<p>    listen:           <\/p>\n<p>description: (hide) Are the marvels of modern electronics really a God-send, or something less than a blessing? Perhaps some of us need to change our thinking about electronic devices as we strive to stay awake while awaiting Christ&#8217;s return. At this critical juncture, time management has become a &quot;must have,&quot; not an option. Because our time is our life, we must be careful to avoid wasting precious time using various electronic devices. Although TV-watching may have modestly decreased, electronic demands on our attention (for example, via cellphones, iPads and computers) have more than filled the gap. The amount of time gobbled up by the combined sources of electronic media is mind-boggling, as well as mind-numbing. We need to carefully consider whether the Internet is really a blessing or a potentially life-threatening curse&mdash;another pull we are forced to resist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary: Staying On Point #1405c John W. Ritenbaugh Given 11-Nov-17; 13 minutes listen: description: (hide) Are the marvels of modern electronics really a God-send, or something less than a blessing? Perhaps some of us need to change our thinking about electronic devices as we strive to stay awake while awaiting Christ&#8217;s return. At this critical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/commentary-staying-on-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commentary: Staying On Point&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}