RAISING GODLY KIDS IN A DIGITAL WORLD

RAISING GODLY KIDS IN A DIGITAL WORLD

MAKING THE FAMILY MATTER – Part 3

Vernon Zook August 24, 2025

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. – Deuteronomy 6:6–7 (NIV)

What can we as parents do to protect our children in a digital world?

1. We need to guard .

Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. – Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)

Who and what is influencing your children?

2. We need to model of technology.

And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching. – Titus 2:7 (NLT)

Show them that technology is a servant, not a master.

3. We need to teach them .

Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong. – Hebrews 5:14 (NLT)

Teach the truth so that your teaching can’t be criticized. – Titus 2:8a (NLT)

Help our children hide God’s Word in their hearts.

4. We need to prioritize over pixels.

And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. – Hebrews 10:25 (NLT)

Technology should enhance relationships, not replace them.

5. We need to pray our children.

Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT)

The greatest parental protection is intercession.

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. – James 5:16b (NLT)

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. – Philippians 1:6 (NLT)