Redeeming Technology: A Christian Approach to Healthy Digital Habits

Brian Smith

ISBN 10: 075866995X / ISBN 13: 9780758669957

Published by Concordia Publishing House, 2021

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That's how long the average American adult spends consuming media each day. Eleven hours of our day are dictated by screens. But with all that time, have you stopped to consider how technology is affecting you? Redeeming Technology: A Christian Approach to Healthy Digital Habits combines biblical wisdom with mental health guidance to help you rethink your technology use from a Christian perspective. Drawing on their experiences and expertise, pastor A. Trevor Sutton and psychiatrist Dr. Brian Smith explore how you can use technology in ways that promote mental well-being and glorify God. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of technology and includes discussion questions that offer practical applications to your life. With both theological and psychological wisdom, Redeeming Technology will guide you to form healthy, faithful technology habits with Jesus at the center. Book jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redeeming Technology: A Christian Approach to Healthy Digital Habits
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075866995X
• ISBN 13: 9780758669957
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Find Christ-centered help for taming your screen life, guarding your heart, and building digital habits that deepen faith and strengthen relationships.

Screens are everywhere--and they're shaping what you love, fear, and trust. Written by a pastor and a psychiatrist, Redeeming Technology offers practical, gospel-centered guidance for understanding how phones, streaming, gaming, and social media are forming your heart--and how God's grace can reshape your habits. Rooted in both biblical wisdom and clinical insight, this book helps you move from distraction and compulsion toward thoughtful, life-giving use of technology.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Recognize when digital habits fuel anxiety, shame, and comparison
• Set healthy limits without guilt or legalism
• Talk with kids and teens about phones, pornography, and social media with honesty and hope
• Build rhythms of rest, prayer, and Scripture in a connected world
• Use technology in ways that serve worship, relationships, and mission

With real-life stories and clear, practical steps, pastor A. Trevor Sutton and psychiatrist Dr. Brian Smith uncover hidden patterns of digital dependency and point you to lasting change in Christ. Rather than rejecting technology, Redeeming Technology shows how to place it in its proper place within God's story of creation, fall, and redemption.

Whether you're a parent, church leader, or simply feeling overwhelmed by constant connection, this book will help you reshape your digital life--and recover the joy of being present to God and the people around you.

About the Author

Brian Smith, MD, is an author, professor, and psychiatrist in Michigan with over twenty years of experience working with children and their families. He had directly witnessed the impact of digital technology, especially social media, on the mental health of his patients. His Christian faith provides the vision and power to best help those in crisis, while feeling personally renewed through this service. Married to Sara and father to Brandon, Hannah, and Casey, he was a genius who could do no wrong until his own children became teenagers.