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My Tech-Wise Life (Amy Crouch and Andy Crouch)
$14.99We can barely imagine our lives without technology. Tech gives us tools to connect with our friends, listen to our music, document our lives, share our opinions, and keep up with what’s going on in the world. Yet it also tempts us to procrastinate, avoid honest conversations, compare ourselves with others, and filter our reality. Sometimes, it feels like our devices have a lot more control over us than we have over them.
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Polly and the Screen Time Overload (Betsy Childs Howard)
$10.95Technology can be a helpful tool and source of enjoyment for many families—a way to aid children with learning, to connect with loved ones, and to provide entertainment. But as with many good gifts from God, tech devices are best used in moderation.
In this new picture book, readers meet Polly while on a trip to her grandparents’ farm. During her visit she spends all her time on her new tablet instead of enjoying the farm animals and playing with her cousins. A chat with her grandfather teaches her that, though screen time can be good, it can also keep kids away from better things. Using simple language and beautiful illustrations, children ages 3–7 are introduced to the idea that technology is best enjoyed within boundaries.
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12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You (Tony Reinke)
$13.50Do You Control Your Phone—Or Does Your Phone Control You?
Within a few years of its unveiling, the smartphone had become part of us, fully integrated into the daily patterns of our lives. Never offline, always within reach, we now wield in our hands a magic wand of technological power we have only begun to grasp. But it raises new enigmas, too. Never more connected, we seem to be growing more distant. Never more efficient, we have never been more distracted.
Drawing from the insights of numerous thinkers, published studies, and his own research, writer Tony Reinke identifies twelve potent ways our smartphones have changed us—for good and bad. Reinke calls us to cultivate wise thinking and healthy habits in the digital age, encouraging us to maximize the many blessings, avoid the various pitfalls, and wisely wield the most powerful gadget of human connection ever unleashed.
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Ploductivity: A Practical Theology of Work & Wealth (Douglas Wilson)
$12.50Ploductivity: (noun),
- the practice of plodding away at a pile of work, instead of frantically trying to sprint through it all
- being stable and graceful, like a buffalo upon the plains, not frantic, like a prairie dog or roadrunner
Here’s a book that provides a theology for technology, work, and mission that helps you be thoughtfully productive in the digital age.
The key is biblically-rooted wisdom and the ability to create the right habits and the regular discipline to use what we have been given.
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Obsessed with Your Phone: Disconnecting to Connect (William P. Smith)
$5.62Do you own your smartphone, or does it own you? How quickly do you pick it up in the morning? Do you check it multiple times an hour to make sure you know what’s going on in the world? Do you find yourself turning to it first when you’re sad, angry, or upset?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re not alone. Why do our phones consume us?
William P. Smith examines the why behind smartphone obsession and uncovers its connection to our desires for significance, belonging, security, and entertainment. The solution is not “more self control” but to experience the true soul satisfaction that comes from the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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