Three helpful articles to build up your wisdom on technology, significance, and conflict:
- Tony Reinke wrote “12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You” back in 2017 and it remains an extremely insightful book when it comes not just to how Christians should relate to their phones, but to technology in general. His earlier article at Desiring God “Six Ways Your Phone is Changing You” provides a good introduction to his helpful writings on tech.
- We live during a time of celebrity. Whether in the news, on TV, or online, the constant theme being pushed at you and I is that we define ourselves by how many applaud us, follow us, repost our thoughts, or pay us for who we are and what we do. But what about the vast majority of our world – the people like you and me – who aren’t in the spotlight? What if you aren’t, and never will be, an “influencer”? What purpose does God have for those of us who serve quietly in the back and who are overlooked in a world that loves attention? Tim Challies speaks to this very question in his excellent article “The Ones Who Sow and the Ones Who Reap.”
- Have you ever felt like you are misunderstood? Perhaps after an argument with a friend or your spouse, you came away thinking “I don’t get it… I’m being perfectly clear. Why don’t they understand?” Oftentimes, a cause for this miscommunication has to do with how we default to thinking about ourselves rather than thinking about how others see us. Even more troubling, so often the root cause of misunderstandings and arguments is related to how we rarely take time to think through how God sees us and those we are speaking with. Erik Raymond offers a helpful perspective on seeing with faithful eyes…
