HOW CHRISTIAN PARENTS SHOULD RESPOND TO THIS ALARMING SMART PHONE STATISTIC

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:

• Smartphones at age 5–6 linked to 48% suicidal thoughts in girls.

• Early phone use disrupts emotional stability, empathy, and reality perception.

• Christians called to be counter-cultural—even if kids push back.

Segment 2:

• Ozempic use in teens raising long-term brain and appetite concerns.

• Stopping GLP-1 drugs leaves lasting appetite and mood issues.

• Mental health crisis linked to dopamine interference and body image lies.

Segment 3:

• Smartphones + body image pressure driving teen Ozempic use.

• Over 700 signed up for Play the Man—momentum is building.

• Campus culture toward Christianity is shifting—opportunities emerging.

Segment 4:

• Beachaven Church aiming for 10,000 gospel conversations.

• Evangelism culture must be intentional—does your church have one?

• Only 36% of Americans confident in the church; evangelism can change that.

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0:00.0	Ritchard Radio begins in three, two, one.
0:05.9	White privilege.
0:07.0	It's just an acknowledgement that our world is uneven.
0:10.1	We live in a country that's unequal.
0:12.3	All human beings share solidarity.
0:14.2	All of us are made in God's image equally and therefore worthy of dignity.
0:18.4	We're all ruined and rebellious against God,
0:21.1	and therefore calls us solidarity and sin,
0:22.7	and we all need the same Savior.
0:25.3	It's time for Wretched Radio with Torfriel.
0:28.7	Can't make a law where there is no law, comma.
0:32.6	But this is Wretched Radio,
0:36.0	unless there's a Bible verse that explicitly says thou shalt or thou shalt not
0:41.0	always need to be very cautious in making a legal proclamation. Now can we ever do that? Absolutely
0:49.3	because you can take a look at the totality of scripture, the revelation about God and his character
0:57.1	and nature. And even if it doesn't say, for instance, explicitly, don't let your kids look at Playboy
1:04.3	magazine, we can use other verses that talk about the subject of lust and adultery and even idolatry,
1:13.8	because that's what adultery is too, by the way.
1:16.9	And we can then state definitively kids should not be looking.
1:21.3	No, nobody should be looking at, my boy,
1:23.8	we've got to stop making that distinction between adults and kids.
1:27.0	If it's bad for us, it's bad for us.
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