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Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland Purposely
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Gospel Tech is a resource for parents who are feeling outpaced and overwhelmed as they raise children in a tech world.
Our goal: Equip parents with the tools, resources, and confidence they need to raise kids who love God and use tech.
Gospel Tech’s mission is to equip families to love God and use tech. We want to empower parents to:
Talk about healthy techCommunicate the GospelConnect the hope of the Gospel to their everyday tech lives
Introduction to Gospel Tech
Three years ago I (Nathan) started Gospel Tech as a ministry to help connect the Gospel to the daily tech lives of families in practical ways. As a middle school teacher I saw a need for intentional, Gospel-focused conversations about tech. Tech was creating more distraction than inspiration in the classroom, and I saw the need for more than just new habits—there was a desperate need for new hearts.
Gospel Tech bridges the gap between scary tech conversations and the hope of the Gospel. With engaging stories and practical applications I bring Gospel-centered tech solutions families can apply in everyday life.
Gospel Tech Resources Beyond The Podcast
The Parent Tech Workshops: A two-part series addressing:How should we handle Tech’s Big 3 (smartphones, gaming, pornography)?How do we make tech safe at home? (two types of tech, tech health, and building tech trust)Youth Talks:The Tech Talk: Use the best tech on purpose, not for purpose.The Hope Talk: A conversation about our goals, purpose, and how making a mistake doesn’t make us a mistake.The Family Tech Framework: A two-hour workshop where families leave with the words to say and the plan in place for healthy tech at home and in daily life.Part 1: Talk It Out: Parents learn key points of discussing healthful tech.Part 2: Walk It Out: Families work together to create a Family Tech Framework customized to their needs, goals, and season of life.
At the end of the day our children aren't problems to fix, they're people to love. We need to point them to the purpose and hope available in Christ, in the work he's already done to make them new and to call them on to good works, and then use tech from that hope. This is why I love to say that in Christ we use tech on purpose, not for purpose.
That's the goal of Gospel Tech. Thanks for letting me be on this journey of parenting with you.
-Nathan Sutherland
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Keeping Tech Safe This Summer (Five Tech Fixes #3)
Summertime provides an amazing opportunity for us to discuss the fifth of the Five Fixes for unhealthy tech: Loving Boundaries. Today we'll discuss how to build open communication around tech, which is the basis for any meaningful tech change, and develop practical hedges for our family, devices, and network.
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Making Summer Fun (Five Tech Fixes #2)
Summer is an amazing time for adventures. The key to great making summer fun? Real world, analog adventures. Today we'll dive into how we can make this happen even with busy schedules and small budgets.
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How Do I Manage Tech This Summer? (Five Tech Fixes, #1)
Summer is here, and our children have a lot more time on their hands. How do we help them navigate the tech that helps vs. hurts? I've received a number of queries from parents and I'm using three recent scenarios to inspire our conversation on how we can use tech from hope, not for hope, and ensure our tech is safe, good, and that our children are ready for it.
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Sutherland Family Tech Check-In
Anna joins us today to talk about how summer changes our tech rhythms, where we're struggling to use tech well, and how we can implement one of the Five Fixes to improve our summer fun and tech health.
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What Will You Be When You Grow Up? (Talking with Teens #5)
Young people are asked this question from the time they can speak. Yet what we do isn't as important as who we are while we're doing it. In today's conversation we'll discuss what we're called to do as followers of Christ, and reflect on whether our current goals and achievements (or failures) in the area of a career line up with who God is calling us to be.
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Which Tech Can I Use? (Talking to Teens #4)
It's a story I'm hearing more and more often:
a high school junior who swapped Instagram for Whatsapp to reclaim her goals and timea twenty year old who deleted social media to spend more time in his own life rather than the lives of othersa college senior who asked his mom to put parental controls on his smartphone to help him focus on his schooling and careerToday we talk about how we can use all the tech that helps us be more like Jesus, and none of the tech that distracts us from Him.
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4eajvjM
Customer Reviews
Great tool for Biblical living in a tech world
This show is well produced and flows smoothly. He offers lots of very practical and wise advice on how to navigate uses of technology through the lens of a biblical lifestyle. I find nuggets of truth that help me guide my family in each episode. I highly recommend for any parent.
Very helpful and practical and necessary
Been looking all over for help navigating technology safely as my kids approach their teenage years. This stuff is very helpful to hear, is clearly presented, and is not overly paranoid or unreasonable. Technology is only going to grow in our society and to our kids so it is vital to understand the dangers and how God would want us to engage with it. As a father this gives me things to consider and ways to lead my family.
Very timely and super helpful!
Thanks for all your hard work on this podcast. Found you through Fierce Marriage and so thankful I did. It’s already been so helpful not only for myself but for my family and how to manage our 4 kids and tech. Thanks Nathan and Anna and keep up the great work!