And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Philippians 4:8 NLT

The ability for mass communication is only a recent phenomenon. Since the invention of the telephone (1876) and the television (1927) nothing really happened to move things forward until the world wide web (www), known as the internet, exploded into life in 1989. Social media was only invented in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that's still popular today. Youtube is younger still, founded in February 14, 2005.

The newest of all of these inventions is an app called Whatsapp, invented in 2009. It works on your smartphone (1992) not only allowing its users to send pictures and videos, voice messages, set up group chats but also make phonecalls using the data from wireless networks.

No longer do people need to wait for the broadsheet newspapers to be delivered for them to get news and current affairs, they just pick up their mobile phones or tablets (not the type that you swallow) or log on, and with just a few button pushes everything thing they need is right there.

We or certainly, I take for granted the power of the tools at our disposal. But in countries of political unrest, people are using these tools to peacefully mobilise (Ethiopia, Zimbabwe), whilst some families are using this as a means to locate one another (refugees).

The ‘chain mail’ like the ‘chain email’ (communication sent, often as bulk mail, that implores you to pass it on or something bad will happen to you) is one form of communication that no one likes to receive. So I have a question this morning, what are you using your (communication tools) for? Paul, the apostle, councils us in Philippians 4:8,

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. NLT

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Bryn has chosen an Arabic Christian song called ‘My life is yours’. Click on the picture to listen.