Redeem the Screen
Touch Screen - October 10/11
October 11, 2020 • Kyle Trigg
As with so many things in our lives, the screens at our disposal come with choices around how we use them — or don’t use them. Those choices impact us … and they can also impact others. What would it look like to connect — or disconnect — with the screen in ways that allow us to foster genuine, healthy connection, and build into the real lives of real people? Romans 12:9-21 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Screen Share - October 3/4
October 4, 2020 • James Paton
“Image management” has always been a thing, but technology and screens put it right at our fingertips — at any moment. We can choose the words and images and interactions we want to share, in real time … as we scroll through what others are choosing to share. How do the carefully curated lives we scroll through — including our own — shape us and the way we see our world? Romans 1:21-23 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
Screen Time - September 26/27
September 27, 2020 • James Paton
Screens ... They’re everywhere. In our pockets, on our walls, at our desks. They inform us, connect us, entertain us. Let’s be honest — they make a lot of things a lot more convenient. If we were to take a look at our screen time — how much, how often, who and what we interact with ... What would it tell us about ourselves — about what we value, what we prioritize? Romans 12:1-2 1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.