About this episode

Misty Phillip discusses the intersection of AI, discernment, and God's timing in advancing the gospel.

Misty Phillip has many bullets on her resume. She has even had her photo displayed in Times Square, which is pretty amazing, but the thing I love most about her is her passion for championing others. Her testimony speaks powerfully to what God can do through our obedience and it's such a beautiful reminder that His timing is impeccable! Misty shares about God's timing in launching the Spark Christian Podcast Conference on Feb. 21–22, 2020—just weeks before the pandemic—equipping believers to keep sharing the gospel when churches shut down. She shares her background from working at Enron to homeschooling, then writing, speaking, podcasting, and creating Spark Media; she also wrote six books and an award-winning 2019 Bible study, The Struggle is Real, but So is God. She explains how God led her to transition in 2023 into her husband's tech consulting work in cybersecurity and AI, describing how AI is already embedded in daily tools (maps, photo editing, search, Netflix, Canva). Misty urges Christians to steward AI with discernment, noting bias from non-Christian worldviews, risks for kids (isolation, harmful answers), the need to verify outputs, and the importance of Scripture and…

People in this episode

Host: Julie Hedenborg

Guest: Misty Phillip

Topics covered

• AI
• Discernment
• God's Timing
• Technology
• Gospel
• Christianity

Keywords

• AI
• Christian Podcast Conference
• God's timing
• cybersecurity
• discernment
• technology
• gospel
• Misty Phillip

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Spark Media, Enron

Books & works: The Struggle is Real, but So is God, Upskill or Die, The Trojan Horse of the Digital Age

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