Dr Paul Allen

What solution does the Bible teach for this sad situation? The short but profound answer is given by Paul in Colossians 3:16: "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom , singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God ." We need the Word to dwell in us richly so that we will know the truths that God thinks are most important and so that we will know His purposes and priorities. We need to be concerned less about "felt-needs" and more about the real needs of lost sinners as taught in the Bible. We need to be concerned less about "felt-needs" and more about the real needs of lost sinners as taught in the Bible. Paul not only calls us here to have the Word dwell in us richly, but shows us what that rich experience of the Word looks like. He shows us that in three points. (Paul was a preacher, after all.) First, he calls us to be educated by the Word , which w...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Facebook has never been more addictive. In 2013, it was 63% of Facebook users who checked in daily. In 2014, that number shot up to 70%. If you check Facebook day after day, you join over 864 million others with the same compulsive routine. For many of us, Facebook is a kind of addiction, a default habit that is now rewiring our brains. Ofir Turel, a psychologist at Cal State Fullerton , has the research to prove it. To make his point, he says Facebook addicts driving a car are more likely to respond faster to a push notification alert on their phone than to street signs. “That’s the power of Facebook,” he said. Turel co-authored a study showing Facebook addiction engages the same impulsive regions of the mind as drug addicts , but with one significant difference. Facebook addicts, unlike compulsive drug abusers, “have the  ability to control their behavior, but they don’t have the  motivation  to control this behavior because th...