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Look! A Distraction!

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  • Tim Challies

Technology should be treated as a tool we have to use. But if you don’t own your tools, they will own you. This article discusses the results of allowing technological tools to distract you. They lead to shallow living, doing, and loving.

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Don't Read a Newspaper, Read a Book

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  • Jon Dykstra

This article is about the bias in the media, media and entertainment, and media and Christianity.

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Rescuing Church from a Facebook Culture

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  • Michael J. Kruger

What kind of characteristics of a Facebook culture do believers need to reckon with? This article offers five, and urges us to see that technology often exacerbates the sin patterns already present in our hearts.

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Shepherding Your Children through Media Choices

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  • Kurt Gebhards

This article encourages parents to make wise decisions and set good examples for their families in their choice of media in the home. Parents must stand guard, stimulate and spirituality, spend time with the children. The article lays out five practical questions for parents to consider in creating a strategy for their own families.

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Have You Already Had Your Reward?

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  • Jay Adams

Did you know that Matthew 6:1-2, concerning rewards, has something to say regarding how you use social media? This article explains.

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The App of God

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  • Tim Challies

Do you find it difficult to accept the Bible coming in the form of an app? Then you must distinguish the nature of the bible and its form.

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Sexting

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  • Audred Spriensma

Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit photos or messages between cell phones. This is one of the misuses of mobile technology. This phenomenon has become popular especially among teens, and has extended to social media. How should Christian parents react to this?

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Facebook

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  • Martin VanderWal

Social media has become part of life. How should Christians view it? This article looks specifically at Facebook, discussing why it is attractive to users. The author focuses on personal identity and the use of Facebook, calling Christians to consider how they present themselves. How should Christians present themselves?

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Living on the Lunatic Fringe

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  • Noel Weeks

How do we as Christians conduct ourselves towards the media? This article is about the Christian church taking a position on current affairs, and receiving media attention as a result.

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Freedom of Obscenity Relativism at Work

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  • Michael Wagner

This article is about freedom of speech, censorship and obscenity. 

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Advertising: The propaganda of 20th century society

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  • Sarah Vandergugten

This article is about advertising and what the media is really selling to us. This article also looks at sexuality and norms in advertising.

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How Funny Are the Funnies?

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  • Klaas Stam

This article is about comic strips.

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"No Base Thing"

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  • Rob A. Schouten

This article is about watching television, and the attacks of Satan and the world on our lives. The author discusses Psalm 101:3.

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Christians, Censorship and Society

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  • M. Vandervelde

Is censorship a good thing? This article looks at censorship, and the control and freedom of morality in society.

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Messy Lives Don't Appear on Facebook

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  • Coleman Ford

This article discusses how Facebook allows us to present the "put together" life, when in fact our lives are otherwise messy. It exposes the desire for recognition behind this, and explains that we need to embrace the true, raw image if we are to expose the unfruitful works of darkness in our lives for the sake of growing in God's kingdom.

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Questions to Ask before Posting about Politics on Social Media

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  • Scott Slayton

Do you have a habit of interacting with politics on social media? This article offers seven questions you should consider before you post.

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Social Media and Middle School

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  • Jim Stitzinger

When do you open the door for your children to access social media? This article provides a number of talking points for parents to cover with their children.

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Ads

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  • Scott Schuleit

The article looks at the destructive effects of advertising these days. This advertising is appropriately contrasted to the teaching of the Lord, which instead focuses on the truth.

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You Are Richer Than You Think

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  • Tim Challies

Technology is part of our daily life. This article makes a call that Christians have the responsibility to be stewards of technology to the glory of God and the good of others.

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Christians and the Media About a visiting Pope and a murdered Hindu Leader

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  • P. A. Bergwerff

This article looks at the role of media in relation to religion with the purpose of showing how Christians can interact and use the media for the furtherance of the gospel.

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What Every Parent Should Know About the Internet (8) - News & Views

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  • David Clark

This article looks at how the Internet has shaped the way news is received. The danger exists that the news becomes simply a means of entertainment. On the other hand, Christians can utilize the internet as a tool for evangelism.

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The Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures Living the Word in the Age of Television

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  • Sarah Vandergugten

This article discusses the family and the use of television. Television as a medium is also discusses, as well as the worth of books.

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Television and the Internet in the 21st Century

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This article is about the effect of television and Internet and finding a good use of these mediums.

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Mass Media – Modern Means of Communication

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  • C. Meliefste

This article looks at the media and communication, and the purpose of the media.

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Bias in the News

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  • Johan D. Tangelder

This article discusses the place of the news in the media in modern society. It also looks at a Christian response to postmodern journalism.

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Ten Things You Need to Know about the Danger of Media

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  • Tony Reinke

This article discusses ten things you should know about the danger of media.

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Why Social Media (and the Church) Is Making You Sad

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  • Russell D. Moore

This article discusses why the selective picture of life that social media shows can and does affect worship and liturgy as well, and not for the better.

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The Passion of Christ

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  • Aaron C. Denlinger

This article is about the Passion of Christ. Television and preaching and evangelism is discussed, as well as the idea of Bible history on film.

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The Media's Role in Making the World a Wilderness

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  • Kees Wieske

This article talks about the negative influence of the media on society.

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