Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland episodes

September 09, 2025Being a Good Friend Online
It's hard to make good friends. Today we'll discuss three questions we can discuss with our children to help them build healthy, and helpful, friends online and in real life.
Are we of equal value?
2. Does this person make me a priority?
3. Is the person the point (or is it a shared activity)?
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/45XlupG
28 min
September 02, 2025 Using Social Media for Ministry
Can we use social media well, or is the fact it's designed to take our time, focus, and money make it more harmful than helpful? We'll cover there dangers, three blessings, and how we can remember to not gain the world but lose our soul.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4neMQxh
28 min
August 26, 2025 Biblical Boundaries for Social Media
God gives us clear statements of what is expected of our behavior both online and offline. Today we'll look at what God requires of our words, minds, focus, and content.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/45uelwM
28 min
August 19, 2025 Is My Child Ready for Social Media?
In America we have rules for helmets on a bike, licenses for a car, and permits for a gun, but we don't have any real standards about children and social media. We need a clear way to know when our children are ready, what to say when they're not ready, and a simple way to assess if social media is going well once they've started to use it.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4mEKUxx
27 min
August 12, 2025 Social Media Safety
Social media is inherently unsafe: It is designed for maximal engagement, with feeds drawn from live users on a global network, with a viewing rate far beyond what children will experience in nature (the average TikTok video is viewed for 5 seconds).

Today we'll look at the age, limits, and boundaries we can lovingly put around our children to get the best chance of healthy results when using social media.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3Jwa8ji
28 min
August 05, 2025 A High-Quality Tech Diet
We need to treat our tech like we treat our food: With a high priority on quality, an awareness of what causes us to crash, and a plan for making it happen in the trenches of real life. Our tech will benefit from a similar focus.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4o27CRO
26 min
July 29, 2025 Slow Down This Summer
Summer is a time when we can make space for what is most important. Specifically, we can go low(er) tech, make God's Word a priority, and make time for fun at the pace of real life.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3TVhFu9
19 min
July 22, 2025 Living as Pro Abundant Life (a conversation w/ Roland Warren)
Hey friends, just a quick heads-up that today’s conversation touches on some mature and important topics, so you might want to pop in some earbuds or wait for a quiet moment alone.

Using the best tech well means using it to see God's kingdom come, and His will be done. But how do we do this when it comes to topics that are politically charged and high stakes, like abortion? Today we talk with Roland Warren, the President and CEO of Care Net, about how to live out Christ's mission that we are to live life abundantly. We'll take the time to discuss the Dobb's Decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, the changing landscape with the Plan B pill, and why good laws are important but are secondary to the change that will make them matter.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4nW6bo5
29 min
July 15, 2025 Analog Adventure Time!
Having fun at the pace of real life is a skill these days. It takes practice, flexibility, and the creativity to say yes as often as possible.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/407qPr1
28 min
July 08, 2025 Setting Summer Priorities
It's easy for Summer to get busy, and then for good things to crowd out the best things. Today we discuss setting summer priorities, and Cal Newport's encouragement that:

1. We must limit ourselves to a max of three priorities
2. We delegate, or relegate, non-priorities (even awesome ones)
3. Plan a max of 1 priority event each day

In doing this we allow ourselves the space to faithfully act on what God has called us to do, and leave space and bandwidth to be present for all God has for us this summer.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4nwpG6m
28 min

About Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

From the publisher's feed

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 tech
Communicate the Gospel
Connect 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