Be Careful Little Eyes—The Dangers of our Screen Time

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We warn our kids to always be careful about what they’re looking at, what they do, and how they behave. But how do we as parents navigate that when it comes to our own screen time – not only what we’re watching but how much time we’re spending watching it?

As screens have become present everywhere in our culture, it’s important to remember that time is a precious gift from God. It’s our responsibility to use our time in such a way that honors God and prioritizes what we’ve been entrusted with—our families and children. When we give too much time to content that’s meaningless and which isn’t God honoring, darkness and the world win a battle in the war for our hearts.

Today on Fearless, I’m sharing some tips that have worked for our family and how we are trying to make more time for what’s really important.

For more resources and additional episodes visit cissiegrahamlynch.com.

WEBSITES

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association – https://billygraham.org/
Billy Graham Radio – https://billygrahamradio.org
Samaritan’s Purse – https://samaritanspurse.org/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	On today's episode of Fearless, we're going to be talking about our phones and our computers and our tablets,
0:07.0	and how my son Austin, who's six years old, my husband, and even you the listener of Fearless, have helped me stay on track and to refocus
0:15.1	where I'm spending my time and the dangers of what we're seeing on our phone.
0:21.6	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch. Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. I want to be fearless.
0:37.0	Welcome back to another episode of Fearless. If you're watching on our
0:45.8	YouTube, then you would know that I'm back in my office in Charlotte, North
0:49.8	Carolina at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. And it is my first time back since having my little girl Georgia.
0:56.5	And I will say traveling again, it's a little more difficult to leave all three kids
1:00.6	behind and for mama to get out the door but we're here I'm so
1:04.1	thankful to be back in the office and with my team of Fearless and I want to say
1:09.5	thank you to all of those who have sent encouraging notes.
1:13.0	Recently, I got a message on Instagram
1:16.9	from a girl where she had just said
1:20.1	that she had listened to my most recent episode of Fearless and that she had been away from
1:24.4	God for about 20 years that she'd grown up in a Christian home and her dad had led her to the Lord
1:29.4	when she was six but pretty much walked away from him after high school and she got married and had three kids and then COVID hit and she said I started small getting back into the word and I found your podcast which has really spoken to me and help me see my
1:44.7	need for Christ and my kids need for Christ. I have since led all three of my kids to the
1:49.7	Lord and we have found a wonderful church we belong to.
1:53.0	Personally, I'm thankful you obey the Lord and the startup of your podcast.
1:57.0	It really set me down the path of finding Christ again
2:00.0	and the peace I feel because of him is exactly what I've longed for for almost 20 years.
2:07.0	And I guess that'll make me teary and a little bit emotional because sometimes after recording a podcast I'm like oh maybe I did that wrong
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.