“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Nicholas Carr, in his book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains, said this: And this pace of processing information is now a part of our culture. This is increasingly important in a culture where the pace of life, the scrolling on a phone, and the communication via text messaging is fast, short, and frantic.

Perhaps our study will cause you to linger over words and phrases-to consider more carefully and more thoughtfully what they mean. Nothing wrong with that, for sure.īut I hope that our pace will cause you to slow down a bit in your reading of the Bible. There are some times when it is better to move more quickly.

I’ve timed it out, along with a few shorter sermon series, to end the book around Easter of 2020. I can assure you that we’ll pick up the pace in 2019. Some of you have asked with rather concerned looks on your faces as to how long we’ll be in John.

By walking slowly, we are able to linger a little longer or consider some words and phrases more carefully. We are walking through this text at a very slow pace because there are wonderful truths to see and savor. This is our seventh week in our journey through the first eighteen verses of the gospel of John. “ (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’ ”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” (John 1:15–16).

What does grace upon grace mean