Deal with Technology Distractions
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
While technology is a great tool, spending too much time on a screen can distract you from quality time with your spouse. John talks with Greg, who shares about how he and his wife have had to cut back on screen time in their relationship. Featuring Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.0 | Sometimes in marriage it's not the big things that cause you and your mate to kind |
| 0:40.0 | of veer off course from each other and have almost separate lives. Instead it's |
| 0:44.2 | those little things that add up over time. The things you do or the things you |
| 0:48.2 | don't do that kind of push you away from each other. Today we have some hope |
| 0:53.0 | for getting back on track. I'm John Fuller here in the studio with Greg Smolley |
| 0:57.5 | me and his wife Aaron speak at marriage events they write together and they |
| 1:01.6 | lead the focus marriage team here at focus on the family. Let's go ahead and |
| 1:05.9 | here now from Dr. Tim Mulehoff. He's a professor of communication at Biola |
| 1:10.2 | University. He and his wife Noreen Chatted with Jim Daley about lessons they've |
| 1:15.0 | learned by reading the classic novel from CS Lewis The Screw Tape Letters. How |
| 1:20.4 | did that connect for you? Well we love the Screw Tape Letters as well. Absolutely. We |
| 1:25.1 | got a chance to see it performed as well. It was awesome. It showed me the |
| 1:29.6 | subtlety of it. Right. Lewis is in the fine moments. It's a demon working on a |
| 1:36.1 | person for years getting an attitude. I remember I remember the old lady who |
| 1:42.5 | her tea just had to be just right and she would say I'm not a picky person. I'm |
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