You see, I’d love to use this example. The things of God don’t jump on you, sometimes they do, other times, they require years and years of becoming.
The Bible speaks of the fruit of the spirit and other things in Christianity in botanical terms because they take time and they are a process.
See friends, until Christ is formed in you, until you are completely like Jesus, labor under the weight of the word that he has left with you, expounded by the spirit.
Xi Jinping rose through Chinese politics in part by helping organize what is still regarded as one of the greatest Olympic Games of all time.
I’d bet that with him still serving as president, if China were to host a FIFA World Cup, it would set the bar so high that it might not be surpassed for the next 50 years.
🤯 This is a website, a simple web-based game built with WebGL and Three.js.
Website: https://t.co/G0cDgaWzKe
It's honestly surprising how far web development has come.
I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.
University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.
Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.
There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.
If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.
Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:
Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.
Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.
"In the game we are opponents, but after the game we are all Christians, we are all brothers, and we said a little prayer because we believe that Jesus is glorified through the game."
- Germany’s Felix Nmecha after their 7-1 win vs Curacao