You are always focused on something. Your phone. Your fears. Your goals. The problem is not that you lack focus — it is that your focus is rarely where your faith actually lives. And whatever captures your attention long enough will eventually capture your character.

Attention is the new currency, and every algorithm, notification, and digital platform is competing for yours. But the ancient Christian tradition knew this long before smartphones: what you behold, you become. Formation begins with what you fix your eyes on.

This episode examines the connection between attention and formation — why what you give your focus to is slowly shaping what you love, what you fear, and who you are — and how to recalibrate your attention toward what actually matters. This episode teaches why your focus determines your formation, how modern attention culture is shaping believers away from Christ, and how to intentionally redirect your gaze toward God, hosted by two pastors.

You will learn the biblical principle that you become what you behold and what it means practically. You will hear how to audit your current attention patterns and identify where your focus has drifted. You will walk away with a plan for building habits of attention that orient your heart toward God rather than away from him.

You cannot change what you refuse to look at honestly. And you cannot grow toward God while your attention is pointed everywhere else. This episode will help you see what you have been feeding — and choose differently.

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The Spiritual Discipline of Biblical Meditation — EP 23
AI, ChatGPT, and the Church
The Spiritual Discipline of Study — EP 49

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