Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

Gospel Tech with Nathan Sutherland

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

Episodes

October 14, 2025 28 mins
Sometimes the hardest part of healthy screen time is knowing what to do instead. So how do we know if our child has too much screen time, and what can we do instead? There are three questions we need to ask, and then four activities we can use to quickly point our children back to analog adventures.

  1. Are screens babysitting?
  2. Does my child content with screen time?
  3. Is tech a consistent battle for our family?

The average sc...
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Have you quit praying? Think about the last week: What happened when you saw that last horrible news article, or video on SM, or had someone at work tell you about another heart-rending tragedy. What did you do? If you're anything like me, you didn't pray. You might've shrugged, or cried a little, or made a snarky remark (also more like me than the other two)--but if you're like me, you didn't pray. Our lack of prayer shows we are ...
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September 30, 2025 27 mins
There are three unique struggles on social media thanks to the advent of AI:
  1. Bots and the Dead Internet
  2. So much p*rn
  3. Problems with Reality Retention
There are three steps we can take today:Step 1: Get internet out of the bedroom.Step 2: Get your family hedges setup — start talking about this!
  • Ask your child: Have they seen AI generated content? How can they tell what is real and what is fake?
  • For younger children: Let’s play...
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September 23, 2025 22 mins
There are mean people online. Three steps to take to help ensure we handle mean people well are:
  1. Assume others are intelligent
  2. Attack ideas, not people
  3. Remember the Gospel: We were all once sinners (Ephesians 2:4) — now we’re saints, by grace.
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3JZr8ie 
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September 16, 2025 21 mins
Few people go online looking to change their minds. Most want validation or escape. With this in mind, we must be intentional with our social media interactions. Today we'll discuss three ground rules for dealing with mean people online, and give practical examples we can look to for how to do online conversations and ministry well. 

Three ministries who use social media well as an outlet for gospel hope are:
  1. Tim Barnett, Red Pen...
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September 9, 2025 27 mins
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.
  1. Are we of equal value?
  2. 2. Does this person make me a priority?
  3. 3. Is the person the point (or is it a shared activity)?
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/45XlupG 
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September 2, 2025 27 mins
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 
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August 26, 2025 27 mins
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 
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August 19, 2025 26 mins
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 
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August 12, 2025 27 mins
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/...
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August 5, 2025 25 mins
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 
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July 29, 2025 18 mins
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 
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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...
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July 15, 2025 27 mins
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 
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July 8, 2025 27 mins
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...
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July 1, 2025 22 mins
Summer break is amazing for students, but not for their learning. Research shows us that more than half of students lose up to 40% of their proficiency in reading and math over the summer months. Today we'll talk about why this happens, and what we can do to intentionally and consistently help our students keep their learning edge through the school-free months.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/45SsjsK 
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Our children are creative. They create from a young age as they design, draw, sing, and play their way through new experiences. Sometimes tech builds on these beautiful creative moments, and sometimes, as Jake Weidmann points out, they simply exist within the confines of other peoples' creative endeavors. Today we'll talk with Jake Weidmann, husband, Christ-follower, and master Penman, about his lifelong journey of following Jesus ...
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Walking in freedom from pornography doesn't simply mean having better rules, it means having a better focus on who, and whose, we are. Today we'll put a bow on this five-part conversation and look at how we:

1. Remove and replace
2. Remember our identity
3. Live in Victory

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/43V6pTf 
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How do we parent children well in a world saturated with pornography? It's actually quite simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy. It takes hard work, and diligent relational parenting, to do these three steps well. First, we define the term p*rnogrpahy, then we talk about it in a way that equips our children to spot the lie, then we build hedges around our family to give them every opportunity to make the right decision in healthy...
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ gives us more than forgiveness, it gives us identity and power in the face of our sins. In Christ we are: 

  1. New creations
  2. Children of God
  3. Given everything we need for life and godliness

Because of this we can live in freedom, starting today, no matter our history of mistakes or current struggles. Real victory is possible, in this life, and there is a real way for us to walk in that freedom.

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