

If you don’t believe this, take just 1-minute to listen to today’s Youth Culture Today podcast from CPYU. Effective marketing promises remedies to our insecurities. which is a masterful way to promote Instagram. In another place the Lord Jesus Christ says that what comes out of a man's heart is what makes him unclean.

Christ Jesus says that evil men bring forth evil and good men bring forth good. for out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks (Matthew 12:34).

but feeds our own inclination to get it wrong. The Lord Jesus might have been alluding to this verse when he said. No, my broken and yearning self will only begin to find true meaning, purpose, and satisfaction in life when my restless heart finds its’ rest in my Creator.Īnd this is where Instagram not only gets it wrong. If I pursue that, my human dignity and human flourishing will be horribly compromised.

Here’s what I know and what I want the kids that I know and love to know: My identity is not something I can construct in order to generate the kind of attention I think I need. Perhaps we need to rephrase his words this way: “First we form our tools, and then our tools de-form us.” An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored. Luke 6:45, CSB: A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart. Marshall McLuhan said decades ago that “First we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us.” He was right. Luke 6:45, NLT: A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. and “I’m insecure!” We all know that to be true simply by taking a look inside of our own broken selves. That perfect-looking individual or family is a curated version of an individual or family screaming “Like me!”. Just as Jesus said that “out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks,” so too out of the overflow of our social media presence the heart is exposed. In addition, there’s the observable great irony that as people curate their images away from who they really are, the watching world gets to see who they really are. Second, Instagram gives us a window into “the spirit of the times.” For starters, we see how social media has nurtured and lulled us into wasting incredible amounts of time. an audience that we believe would benefit greatly from our ministry and resources. First, it allows us to connect our ministry and resources with a larger audience. Still, we’ve gone there because we realize that that’s where people, sadly, are living these days.įor us, our Instagram presence serves two purposes. It was with even greater reluctance that I established a personal Instagram account. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.It was with great reluctance that we began reviving our CPYU presence on Instagram (cpyuyouthculture) a couple of months ago. Your heart is the key to your quality of life, and understanding your heart is the first step to a healthy heart-physically and spiritually. The Overflow of the Heart is a devotional in journal format, providing pages for each day on which you can write down a verse from Scripture and what you need from God to overcome a broken heart. But when your heart is whole, you will appear joyful and treat others with love and respect. If your heart is broken, you will likely appear to others as being despondent you may use hurtful words and tones when dealing with them. The condition of your heart determines how you look at, speak to, and treat others. Author Carolyn Joy knows what it is like to have a broken heart, and she brings that experience into helping you heal your heart. The Overflow of the Heart helps you seek God and search your heart. This is certainly important, but we must also make sure not to neglect our spiritual hearts. We are inundated with ways to keep our physical hearts healthy. There is much talk about the importance of a healthy heart.
