Unfollowed for Posting Religious Content on Social Media (07.20.23)

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This week we’re talking about social media and the way others respond to the religious content we might post on there. Many Christians use social media, at least in part, to share content that contains a religious message (articles, images, videos, etc.). However, if you do this on a regular basis, there’s a good chance you’ve had people block, unfollow, or unfriend you on that social media site. And often you won’t even know when this has happened. So what do we do about this? We’re going to talk about that in our episode today.Continue Reading

Reviewing Three Books on Social Media (04.20.23)

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This week I’m going to share some thoughts on three books I’ve read recently. The three books all deal with the topic of social media. This relatively new technology has saturated our culture to the extent that it is difficult to imagine a world without it anymore. Social media affects everyone – even the few who do not use it. Those of us who do use it need to be especially careful about how it is affecting us.Continue Reading

Book Review: The Wolf in Their Pockets

The Wolf in Their Pockets (cover)Last year I reviewed a book by Chris Martin – Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media – about how social media affects us and how we can avoid its pitfalls. Since I finished that book, I’ve been recommending it to others (read my review here). So when I heard that he had a new book coming out, I was sure to pre-order a copy of it.

[Full disclosure: I was able to get a free copy of the ebook before the release, hence the reason why this review is being posted before the official release date. But this was after I pre-ordered a printed copy of it.]

The new book – The Wolf in Their Pockets: 13 Ways the Social Internet Threatens the People You Lead – deals with the same theme as Terms of Service but is directed at church leaders and the challenges they face as the members of their churches are under the influence of social media.Continue Reading

Evangelism and Social Media (02.09.23)

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This week we’re talking about evangelism and social media. Recently I had an opportunity to join brother Osamagbe Lesley Egharevba – a gospel preacher in Nigeria – for a discussion on his YouTube channel on this topic. The episode today contains a portion of our discussion. Brother Lesley was gracious enough to allow me to share this discussion here with the Plain Bible Teaching audience.Continue Reading

Challenges Facing the Church in the New Year (01.05.23)

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With the start of the new year, we tend to look ahead over the next twelve months to see what we can improve, how we might change, and what goals we want to hit. In the episode last week I talked about some areas of focus that we can use to make the most of our time in the new year. However, when we talk about goals, resolutions, etc., we tend to think of possibilities and opportunities for something good. Today, we want to look at some challenges that could be facing Christians and churches in the new year. The more we are aware of these potential challenges, the better we will be able to prepare.Continue Reading

Book Review: Digital Dominion

Digital Dominion (cover)In our modern culture, nearly everyone we meet has a phone in their pocket and/or a computer in their home (and likely more digital devices than that). Anyone reading this will be reading it on a screen. Anymore, this is simply the easiest and quickest way to access information and see the content we are interested in.

The problem with this comes when we are not mindful of how we are using these devices. As author Jeff Mingee stated in the book, Digital Dominion, “when it comes to our digital devices, we are tempted to forego mindful dominion and instead enter in with mindless consumption. So, who is controlling who?” (Digital Dominion: Five Questions Christians Should Ask to Take Control of Their Digital Devices, p. 26).

The premise of the book is that when God created man, He gave Him dominion over the world. “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth’” (Genesis 1:28, NKJV).Continue Reading

Seeking for Meaning on Your Smartphone (10.06.22)

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This week we’re talking about seeking meaning in life. Everyone does this, but how is it different during the age of smartphones, internet search engines, and social media? We will consider that in our episode today.Continue Reading