{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclf-conversations.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fbeholding-vs-scrolling-qV_G0o3L","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Beholding vs. Scrolling (Part 1)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/5904dc7d-2cad-4d83-99d5-2c1ab85677cc/8f22d481-aa77-4d5e-98f8-d62e5a425d2f/s2e13.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/2032b302-cfdd-446c-8eda-68c4e1c66c76\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Beholding vs. Scrolling (Part 1)\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"It usually starts innocently.\nYou pick up your phone for just a second.\nCheck a notification.\nMaybe respond to a text.\nAnd then somehow…\n20 minutes later…\nYou’ve watched three reels, checked the news, seen what everyone had for dinner, and forgotten why you picked up your phone in the first place.\nMeanwhile your Bible is…\nright there.\nClosed.\nAnd it raises some honest questions:\nWhy does my phone have such a pull on me?\nWhy is it easier to scroll than to pray?\nIs social media shaping how I think more than Scripture?\nWhat is all this doing to my soul?\nTechnology isn’t neutral.\nIt’s forming us.\nShaping us.\nDiscipling us.\nSo today we’re asking a really important question:\nAre we being shaped more by what we scroll…\nor by what we behold?\n"}