{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Messages","title":"The Point: Beyond Yourself","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1641,"description":"Our culture values and promotes a healthy sense of \"self.\" We are told to know ourselves and love ourselves, to have a healthy self-esteem, full of self-confidence and self-worth. We are told that we are to take care of ourselves, treat ourselves, and even to pamper ourselves because we owe it to ourselves. We are encouraged to be self-starters and self-motivated, with the hope of being self-employed. We honour people like that, calling them self-made and self-reliant. But what if a life with God isn't a life focused on the self? What if, instead, to live a life genuinely focused on God requires us to live a life genuinely focused beyond ourselves?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ftfPMj7zX9FDHEXoYH3XgNVG21Q20qgBqI1ROSfc9Do/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ2NDUyLzE2OTg2/ODg5ODEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}