The Truth About Media Use
- Revive Our Hearts
- February 7, 2018
Parents used to pay attention to network TV and the radio, which gave them a pretty good grasp of their kids’ use of media—but so much has changed. Read or Listen →
Resources by Topic: Technology
The Plague of Loneliness
- Revive Our Hearts
- May 25, 2015
In a culture of email, voicemail, cell phones, and pagers, why do we feel so isolated from one another? Read or Listen →
Your Children's Friendships
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 28, 2011
Your children will likely be influenced by their friends. As a parent, how can you steer your children into healthy friendships? Read or Listen →
Teaching Discernment to Your Children
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 27, 2011
Parents can’t control their children’s intake of movies and music forever. Learn how to encourage them to make wise choices at a young age. Read or Listen →
Where Do You Get Your Counsel?
- Revive Our Hearts
- August 19, 2010
The average woman is exposed to 70 hours of mass media per week, according to Mary Kassian. She’ll help you figure out how to sort out all the media options. Read or Listen →
Teenagers and Media
- Revive Our Hearts
- April 29, 2008
A parent has to keep a close watch on the messages teenagers are receiving. But how? Read or Listen →
Teaching Children Discernment
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 25, 2007
We all want our children to exercise discernment in what they watch and listen to, but how do we teach them discernment? Read or Listen →
Better Than Television
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 24, 2007
Are your children constantly plugged in to an electronic device? Nancy and Joshua Harris offer some wise counsel on raising children in a media generation. Read or Listen →
In Delilah's Lap
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 28, 2006
Does TV influence your life? If you watch and answered no to that question . . . you’re in heavy denial! Read or Listen →
From Skeptical to Sold
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 27, 2006
Would you like to transform all aspects of your life? Join Nancy Leigh DeMoss and hear what guest, Bob DeMoss, says about giving your TV a break. Read or Listen →
Three Questions
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 26, 2006
Author and cultural expert Bob DeMoss has three questions he wants to ask you related to your television viewing habits. Read or Listen →
Kids and TV
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 25, 2006
Most parents would never leave their children with total strangers for extended periods of time. Or would they? Read or Listen →
A Vacation For Your TV
- Revive Our Hearts
- July 24, 2006
TV might be called the idiot box, but we usually pay quite a bit of attention to it, don’t we? Read or Listen →
"Courageous" Calls Men to True Manhood
We don't often get a chance like this at our local theaters to see lives changed and families healed. …
ReadA Parent's Guide to The Hunger Games
As a Christian and a parent, how am I supposed to feel about The Hunger Games, that three book phenomenon that captured the hearts and dollars of millions? …
ReadAre All Your Friends from Facebook?
According to statistics, the average Facebook user has 245 friends. Are all those we call "friends" today really our friends? …
ReadAre You Fighting the New Greed?
Feeling discontent and insecure? Are you constantly comparing yourself to others? You might be fighting what Christine Hoover calls the "new greed." …
ReadAttack of the Evil Earworm
I’ve got an earworm, and I’ve got it bad. A couple of phrases from a song are ricocheting around my head like a dollar-store bouncy ball. …
ReadBefore You Give Your Tween a Phone
If you don't give your tween daughter a phone, you're cutting off her social oxygen, right? Maybe. But you'd be protecting her from these potential dangers and struggles. …
ReadBringing God Glory Through Social Media
Even though I haven’t caved to the Facebook draw, this past month Twitter caught me! …
ReadDo You Own Technology or Does It Own You?
Are you feeling over-stimulated, distracted, bombarded on all sides by information and entertainment? Listen in as I talk with Tim Challies about technology... …
ReadHow Should We Talk in the Virtual Church Community?
I'm afraid the accessibility and anonymity of the Internet has given us amnesia about God's standards for how we should talk to each other. …
ReadIn the Butterfly Palace
After examining butterflies with a gigantic magnifying glass, I sat down on a bench next to a specimen with gorgeous wings, and then . . . I checked my email! …
ReadKing Solomon on Social Media
If Solomon were alive today and we were to ask him how we can honor God in our use of all the social media available to us today, here is how he might respond. …
ReadManaging Multi-Media
Managing the influence of multi-media in your child’s life is one of the biggest parenting challenges of our day. Here are just a few suggestions . . . …
ReadShould You Go See October Baby?
From a team of Christian brothers comes a new film with an unusual plot twist: a story about a girl who discovers she’s a survivor of a failed abortion. …
ReadSocial Media and the Panda Predicament
We look at edited, one dimensional images of others and make assumptions, don't we? Let's consider how our minds and hearts process the images that others post. …
ReadTeenagers + Technology: 3 Things You Might Be Missing
When it comes to teens and their technology, you might be missing something. Here are three reasons to pay attention to what teenagers are doing online. …
ReadYour Family Isn't Perfect and Neither Is Mine (Part 2)
When your friends post picture-perfect images on social media, do you compare or do you rejoice? Read about the freedom that comes from learning to rejoice. …
ReadHow to Handle the Stage: 5 Lessons from John the Baptist
If Jesus taught us that the greatest in the kingdom are the servants, is it ever okay to pursue a stage? To promote a blog? To seek out new followers? …
ReadPure for You, But Not for Me
Are you watching any shows or reading any books that make you think about things that are not commendable? What type of content causes you to sin? …
ReadFacebook, You Are Not My Church
Christ’s Plan A for our sanctification and the world’s redemption is the local church. Not the cyber church. Not the podcast church. Not the blogosphere church. Not even the Facebook church. …
ReadThe Wrong Way to Read Christian Books
May the gospel saturate our minds and transform the way we read Christian books. …
ReadThe Heartbeat of My Social Media Addiction
I am about to worship God, but I open my phone to see if anyone is worshiping me. …
ReadAn Embryo Adoption’s Tragic Disappointment
The babies I lost in this miscarriage were adopted and not my biological children. …
ReadSession 3 Drama: Life Based on Instagram
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