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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 374 - When Your Smartphone Becomes Your Spiritual Enemy

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Screens dominate modern life, quietly shaping habits, desires, and spiritual health in ways many people fail to recognize. Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar examine how smartphones and social media have become powerful tools that amplify the heart’s desires, often drifting from usefulness into addiction. While technology itself is morally neutral, the guys explain that human sinfulness and spiritual opposition twist good gifts into sources of distraction, dependency, and misplaced worship. Phones pr...

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0:00.0

You know, we live in these boxes in our brains that we don't go outside of them. And like when you give yourself the opportunity to gaze even upon God's creation, it creates space for awe and worship. And we just get in our ruts and our routines, just our head always down. I mean, you know, it's proverbial now, but you go out in public and everyone. You see your family sitting at dinner at a restaurant, everyone's looking down, you know. And again, we're not saying it's wrong to use your phones.

0:24.4

They're gifts. It's proverbial now, but you go out in public and everyone. You see your family sitting at dinner at a restaurant. Everyone's looking down, you know.

0:21.7

And again, we're not saying it's wrong to use your phones.

0:24.3

They're gifts.

0:24.9

They're a blessing.

0:26.3

But are we so regimented in that habit that we don't break away and discover things that we lost?

0:40.2

We call it trials and tribulations.

0:45.3

Boy, did I experience it in a very heavy dose

0:47.9

at the National Bible Be Competition

0:50.2

when one of the children was named Augustine, but I had to pronounce it Augustine.

0:58.8

Correctly?

1:00.2

Does that feel weird to do something correctly?

1:02.0

You have no idea.

1:02.7

I had no choice.

1:04.0

So why did you have no choice?

1:05.9

Because they mispronounce their child's name as Augustine.

1:09.2

They did check with you.

1:10.1

It was child's name?

1:11.7

Oh, that's funny.

1:12.7

And every time Oscar's face and pops of my wife.

1:15.8

So why didn't you just do it?

1:18.3

Because I'm humble, me, gentle, lonely.

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