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

Stop the Summer Slip

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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Raising Faithful Creators: Wisdom for Parents of Young Artists (w/ Master Penman Jake Weidmann)

June 24, 2025 • 37 mins
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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Live in Victory (Walking in Freedom, Part 5)

June 17, 2025 • 26 mins
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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Parenting in a World of P*rn (Walking in Freedom, Part 4)

June 10, 2025 • 36 mins
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 Good News (Walking in Freedom, Part 3)

June 3, 2025 • 38 mins
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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Porn is Bad for Everyone (Walking in Freedom, Part 2)

May 27, 2025 • 37 mins
To better understand our conversation on pornography, we need to understand the lay of the land when it comes to research about pornography. Today we'll address three specific questions:
  1. Why is pornography different from other digital inputs, or even other sins?
  2. How does pornography impact the brain?
  3. What does research tell us about porn and our world?
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/43HS0L3 
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Porn is a Lie (Walking in Freedom, Part 1)

May 20, 2025 • 33 mins
Today we begin our short series on walking in freedom in an area of sin that is pervasive within the church: pornography. This conversation is hope-focused and aimed at equipping parents, students, friends, pastors, and believers from all walks of life to experience fullness of the freedom Christ has saved them for (Galatians 5:1).

Today's conversation focuses on the lie of pornography, and how pornography is the perfect representat...
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Show Up

May 13, 2025 • 23 mins
Parenting means showing up. I've been wrestling with how to be a better parent, and often feeling like I'm falling short. When I'm laying in bed I'll run through all the ways I could've done a better job. In praying about this I've been convicted that, while I can always do better, I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be. My job as a parent is to show up. Today we'll talk about the three ways we can show up for our child...
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A Time for Everything Under the Sun

May 6, 2025 • 39 mins
Jesus instructs us on just about every topic we run into during our human lives: He addresses abiding, suffering, love, grace, compassion, right living, being made new in him, and faith. He addresses Hell a lot. He’s pretty specific about his teaching on wealth, and on the fact that we all have borrowed time. In thinking about it, I think Jesus addresses play pretty comprehensively. He even mentions play, if only by extension from ...
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The Three Best (And Worst) Uses of AI

April 29, 2025 • 36 mins
AI can be an amazing tool, if we use it right. Today we'll discuss the three best ways to use AI well, and three uses of AI that we should avoid.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3EQhAE0 
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Every Day is Easter

April 22, 2025 • 28 mins
As a follower of Jesus, every day is Easter! Jesus is alive, and that's a big deal in every area of life: How we think about ourselves, how we parent our kids, and how we go about doing the good works we're called to do.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4lLNQsQ 
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Five Signs of Screen Overload (And What To Do)

April 15, 2025 • 28 mins
Has your child ever been irritable after using his or her favorite tech? Does a certain show or game ever consistently lead to fights? If so there's a good chance your child is overstimulated and needs help getting back on a healthy path. In today's conversation we'll discuss the five signs of a brain overstimulated by screens and talk through specific steps we can take to ensure tech use remains healthy for our children.

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Living Well in an Overstimulated World

April 8, 2025 • 27 mins
We live in a culture that encourages low focus, low attention, and low discipline in doing the hard stuff. To raise up our children well in a tech world requires a clear understanding of our goals, our priorities, and our plans.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/42uzQLg 
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Protecting Our Children Online

April 1, 2025 • 20 mins
There are three ways to get into trouble online:
  1. Look for trouble
  2. Lack a plan for safety (not-not looking for trouble)
  3. Accidents
Yet in all three scenarios loving parents take the same actions: We build hedges around our family, networks, and devices, and we have the intentional conversations about how to use the best tech well.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4l9WkJW 
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Using Strengths (And Weaknesses) for the Lord

March 25, 2025 • 21 mins
Tech is amazing at helping us leverage our strengths for productive purposes. Organized people become more organized, social people become more social, and the doers of life get more done. Yet that same tech that allows us to truly shine in areas God has gifted us can be equally distracting, and even destructive, when our weaknesses show up. We can make more mistakes, faster than ever before. We can also put our trust in our amazin...
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Five Priorities for Raising Healthy Youth

March 18, 2025 • 25 mins
We are parenting in a time-stretched world. After sleep, school, food, and travel we have, on average, five discretionary hours a day. How will we spend that time? More importantly, as followers of Jesus, how are we called to spend those moments that aren’t prescribed for us? Today we’ll talk about the top five priorities we have as parents, and discuss how each is an opportunity to raise our children up in the way they should go.

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Five Ways to Keep Tech Healthy on Rainy Days

March 11, 2025 • 29 mins
What can we do to ensure our tech stays healthy even when the weather is bad? I live in the Pacific Northwest, and our rainy season isn't set to stop for another three months at least. It's easy to pick up some bad tech habits, and make excuses about them because the days are so long and the weather is so poor. So what can we do instead? Today we'll talk through five great alternatives to build healthy, resilient tech habits with o...
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Parenting Pornography with John-Michael Bout (Into the Light Ministries)

March 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Every family in America knows someone who has been harmed by pornography. Talking about phonography is fraught with challenges because it is personal, hurtful, potentially even an ongoing situation. It is into that environment that we join John-Michael Bout and his ministry Into the Light, which is committed to helping families have the difficult and important conversations--including those around phonography.

Show Notes: https://bi...
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How Can I Get My Husband to Quit Gaming?

February 25, 2025 • 30 mins
Gaming can be a wonderful experience, but it can also be a good thing that distracts from the best things. Today's conversation is to equip wives to have the important, and sometimes difficult, conversation with their spouse about why we game, if it's a good fit, and how we can game on purpose not for purpose.

Show Notes: https://bit.ly/3XagMzT 
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Parenting Video Games

February 18, 2025 • 29 mins
Video games can be amazing, but many young gamers struggle with balancing their digital adventures with their real life opportunities. Today answer three questions every parent needs to ask about video games:
  1. Is this a priority for our family?
  2. Is this game safe, ready, and good?
  3. Does this game line up with our family for: Characters, Violence, Language, Time, Content, and Player Experience
Show Notes: https://bit.ly/4aWpU0G 
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