128 Tim Challies: Deep Thinking About Helping Our Family with Technology

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The episode discusses how Christian families can navigate technology with discernment and a biblical framework.

On this episode of The Disciple-Making Parent Podcast, we talk with Tim Challies about how Christian families can think clearly about technology in a world where screens, social media, and now AI are everywhere. We look at the real numbers shaping teen life, the risks that often stay hidden until it is too late, and three common responses to new tools: enthusiastic embrace, strict separation, and disciplined discernment. We also explore a distinctly Christian framework for technology. We are image-bearers called to create and use tools for good, while recognizing how sin twists every technology toward harm and idolatry. Finally, we consider what is coming next, including AI, augmented reality, and transhumanism, and how we can choose practices that help our families use technology to love God and serve others. ----- Managing Your Households Well Want to lead your family (and your home) with wisdom in a distracted age? Managing Your Households Well: How Family Leadership Trains You for Church Leadership is a practical resource for church leaders and aspiring leaders—showing how faithful, steady care at home shapes the kind of character needed for lasting ministry leadership. Learn…

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Host: Chap Bettis

Guest: Tim Challies

Topics covered

• technology
• Christian families
• social media
• AI
• discernment
• family leadership

Keywords

• technology
• Christian families
• social media
• AI
• discernment
• family leadership
• transhumanism
• image-bearers

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