12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to live wisely in the 21st century. I've never read a book that's more relevant and relatable (the 34 pages of notes I took can attest to that)!

Each of the 12 chapters explained one way that we're being changed by our smartphones and social media culture. (We are addicted to distraction, we ignore our flesh and blood, we crave immediate approval, etc). The author's goal was for us to simply become more aware of our habits and their effects on us. And it definitely accomplished that with me! I have been forced to take a hard look at my technology use and reevaluate my boundaries in this area.

And wow did I need to do that!

As everything is constantly changing and updating, I know this is a topic that will need periodic revisiting, but this is a timely wake-up call for those of us “asleep at the wheel,” so to speak, letting our phones control us rather than controlling them. I am grateful that someone is calling Christians to live thoughtfully in this digital age.