Would You Rather Be on Your Phone or Alone With God — Tim Conway

Escaping Digital Distractions to Seek God

You know what? We can run to a thousand things. You can quickly call somebody on your phone. Just every one of you, just about. You have a phone right in your pocket, right in your purse. You can... You know, it's difficult to mourn when all of a sudden you get a text message, and then you respond to it.

Mourning and Deep Dealings With the Lord

I mean, right at such a time where you've sinned and you're actually beginning to feel something, and have some deep and real dealings with the Lord, and suddenly you hear a phone beep, and you actually respond to it.

Contemplating as David Did

I'll tell you, one of the reasons we don't go so deep, and we don't mourn so deeply, and we don't weep so bitterly, and we don't contemplate things like David did, is because we're so caught up in the trivialities of our...

Turning Off Technology to Be Alone With God

You know what? There's a time to turn off your computer, turn off your phone. Guys, when I was a teenager, phones had cords that went to the wall. We didn't even have phones you could walk around the house with.

There were no phones in cars yet. Cell phones weren't even... That was on Star Trek. I'm saying this because people actually have, for a long time, lived without these things. There's a time to shut them off, and get alone with the Lord.

Pursuing the Victories of Spiritual Depth

If you can't do that, you're not going to know the victories of the men and women who have gone really deep with the Lord. That's just the truth. If you've got to take a 12-gauge shotgun and put a slug hole through the front of your television in order to get alone with the Lord, then do it.