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What does a healthy church look like? What does healthy leadership look like? In this episode, Amber is joined by Stan Givens (a senior pastor with over 40 years of experience) and his son and ministry partner, Josh Givens (of 6:14 Ministries). Join the conversation for practical advice that will help you disciple and remain in ministry for the long haul.
Learn more about 6:14 Ministries: https://614ministries.org/
Listen to their podcast, The Shepherds Circle: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-shepherds-circle/id1796331013
Most parents know screens are a problem. Few have a plan. In this practical and encouraging conversation, Josh sits down with Arlene Pellicane — speaker, author of Screen Kids, and host of the Happy Home podcast — to talk about what it actually looks like to raise children with healthy boundaries around technology. Arlene and her husband raised their three kids through high school without social media, video games, or smartphones. The fruit speaks for itself: kids who can focus, communicate with adults, solve problems, and walk with God without a device in hand.
Arlene breaks down the neuroscience of what screens do to the developing brain, explains the difference between casual use, at-risk behavior, and addiction, and offers a tiered family technology plan — from the Platinum Plan (delay everything through high school) to practical bronze-level wins any family can start this week. She also addresses the real-world questions parents face: How do your kids communicate with friends without a phone? What do you do when the device becomes a babysitter? And what happens when a child already seems addicted?
This episode is a gift to any parent who wants to be proactive — not reactive — about technology in the home. Come for the practical tools; stay for the vision of children shaped by the gospel rather than a screen.
Book 50 Things Every Child Needs to Know Before Leaving Home: https://bit.ly/50thingspc
Renewanation: https://bit.ly/rangsfpc
Gospel Shaped Family Homepage: https://bit.ly/gsfhpc
Happy Home Podcast: https://www.happyhomeuniversity.com/
Screen Kids Book: https://a.co/d/0hDpiIKi
Matthew 5:38-48
- The Lord Jesus forbids everything like an unforgiving and revengeful spirit.
- The Lord Jesus enjoins on us a spirit of universal love and charity.
- If we do not aim at the spirit and temper which are here recommended, we are not yet children of God and are manifestly yet of the world.
- If the spirit of these ten verses were more continually remembered by true believers, they would recommend Christianity to the world far more than they do.
- If the spirit of these ten verses had more dominion and power in the world, how much happier the world would be than it is.
“We are to put up with much and bear much, rather than hurt another, or give offence. In all things we are to be unselfish. Our thought must never be, “how do others behave to me?” but “what would Christ have me to do?””
“We have here a lovely picture of the Christian as he ought to be. We cannot look at it without painful feelings. We must all allow that it differs widely from the Christian as he is.”
“Unfailing courtesy, kindness, tenderness, and consideration for others, are some of the greatest ornaments to the character of the child of God. The world can understand these things, if it cannot understand doctrine. There is no religion in rudeness, roughness, bluntness, and incivility. The perfection of practical Christianity consists in attending to the little duties of holiness as well as to the great.”
“Those who fancy that true religion has any tendency to make men unhappy, are greatly mistaken. It is the absence of it that does this, and not the presence.”
Questions:
- Jesus points out two sayings that would have been common – “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” and “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy” – and declares what God desires. The Christian is called to not resist the one who is evil (of which Jesus gives numerous examples) and love our enemies. The standard is high because the standard is found in Jesus himself. And yet, as Ryle points out, we must not aim for anything less because these things are evidence of having the Spirit. And so, he asks some negative diagnostic questions: am I ready to resent hurts against me? Am I quick to be offended by others? Am I quick to quarrel and fight with others? Do I delight to assert my rights? He then asks some positive questions: Do I return good when others do evil to me? Do I bless when cursed? Do I deny myself and take troubles in order to be kind? As Ryle says, these pictures give a lovely picture of what the Christian ought to be. Do we have some semblance of this picture?
- Ryle, in considering these standards, states that the world would be far happier if the spirit of these verses had more power and dominion in the world. He says, “Those who fancy that true religion has any tendency to make men unhappy, are greatly mistaken. It is the absence of it that does this, and not the presence.” Do we believe that loving our enemies and patiently enduring evil are God being a killjoy or actually what will bring joy to us and a lost world?
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Most parents know screens are a problem. Few have a plan. In this practical and encouraging conversation, Josh sits down with Arlene Pellicane — speaker, author of Screen Kids, and host of the Happy Home podcast — to talk about what it actually looks like to raise children with healthy boundaries around technology. Arlene and her husband raised their three kids through high school without social media, video games, or smartphones. The fruit speaks for itself: kids who can focus, communicate with adults, solve problems, and walk with God without a device in hand.
Arlene breaks down the neuroscience of what screens do to the developing brain, explains the difference between casual use, at-risk behavior, and addiction, and offers a tiered family technology plan — from the Platinum Plan (delay everything through high school) to practical bronze-level wins any family can start this week. She also addresses the real-world questions parents face: How do your kids communicate with friends without a phone? What do you do when the device becomes a babysitter? And what happens when a child already seems addicted?
This episode is a gift to any parent who wants to be proactive — not reactive — about technology in the home. Come for the practical tools; stay for the vision of children shaped by the gospel rather than a screen.
Book 50 Things Every Child Needs to Know Before Leaving Home: https://bit.ly/50thingspc
Renewanation: https://bit.ly/rangsfpc
Gospel Shaped Family Homepage: https://bit.ly/gsfhpc
Happy Home Podcast: https://www.happyhomeuniversity.com/
Screen Kids Book: https://a.co/d/0hDpiIKi
Matthew 5:38-48
- The Lord Jesus forbids everything like an unforgiving and revengeful spirit.
- The Lord Jesus enjoins on us a spirit of universal love and charity.
- If we do not aim at the spirit and temper which are here recommended, we are not yet children of God and are manifestly yet of the world.
- If the spirit of these ten verses were more continually remembered by true believers, they would recommend Christianity to the world far more than they do.
- If the spirit of these ten verses had more dominion and power in the world, how much happier the world would be than it is.
“We are to put up with much and bear much, rather than hurt another, or give offence. In all things we are to be unselfish. Our thought must never be, “how do others behave to me?” but “what would Christ have me to do?””
“We have here a lovely picture of the Christian as he ought to be. We cannot look at it without painful feelings. We must all allow that it differs widely from the Christian as he is.”
“Unfailing courtesy, kindness, tenderness, and consideration for others, are some of the greatest ornaments to the character of the child of God. The world can understand these things, if it cannot understand doctrine. There is no religion in rudeness, roughness, bluntness, and incivility. The perfection of practical Christianity consists in attending to the little duties of holiness as well as to the great.”
“Those who fancy that true religion has any tendency to make men unhappy, are greatly mistaken. It is the absence of it that does this, and not the presence.”
Questions:
- Jesus points out two sayings that would have been common – “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” and “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy” – and declares what God desires. The Christian is called to not resist the one who is evil (of which Jesus gives numerous examples) and love our enemies. The standard is high because the standard is found in Jesus himself. And yet, as Ryle points out, we must not aim for anything less because these things are evidence of having the Spirit. And so, he asks some negative diagnostic questions: am I ready to resent hurts against me? Am I quick to be offended by others? Am I quick to quarrel and fight with others? Do I delight to assert my rights? He then asks some positive questions: Do I return good when others do evil to me? Do I bless when cursed? Do I deny myself and take troubles in order to be kind? As Ryle says, these pictures give a lovely picture of what the Christian ought to be. Do we have some semblance of this picture?
- Ryle, in considering these standards, states that the world would be far happier if the spirit of these verses had more power and dominion in the world. He says, “Those who fancy that true religion has any tendency to make men unhappy, are greatly mistaken. It is the absence of it that does this, and not the presence.” Do we believe that loving our enemies and patiently enduring evil are God being a killjoy or actually what will bring joy to us and a lost world?
