5/12/2025

Technology.  It’s used by all of us.  It can be used wrongly when not employed in ways that are consistent with the life and person of Christ.  It can be used rightly and meaningfully in shaping people into the kind of persons whose being and doing are consistent with the life and person of Christ.

Here are some online technological tools that may help people deepen in their relationship with Christ:

YouVersion

BibleProject

Read Scripture

Lectio 365

Our Daily Bread

BibleGateway

Blue Letter Bible

RightNow Media

Here’s a prayer as we seek to live in a God-honoring way in an increasingly technological world:

Lord God, you are the maker of the heavens and earth and of all that is in them, seen and unseen.

In this world you placed us, according to your loving purposes, and instilled in us the desires and skills to make and create.

Yet our technologies are beset with our human strengths and weaknesses filling us with both wondrous awe and deep anxiousness.

Lord, let us always use our technological skills in the loving service of you and through that service seek the wellbeing of our neighbors.

Let the skills and knowledge we develop be tempered by faith, hope, and love, not driven by pride, self-interest, and idols that turn our faces away from you, Lord.

Teach us to use our technology with patience, kindness, humility, and truthfulness, being slow to anger and not delighting in the suffering of others.

Remind us, Lord, that these human things will ultimately pass away and that which remains will be grounded in your love and hope.

Draw our eyes to the future your hope provides, of a world redeemed and ordered by your power, love, and grace.

Let that vision shape all our creative activities in every aspect of our lives leading us to wise, ethical agency in the service of your kingdom.

In all our technological endeavors may we continue to worship and glorify you, Lord.

And, may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be present in all our works for the glory of your name and your kingdom now and forever more.  Amen.

-Michael