Well, occasionally on this podcast, we talk about podcasting, and particularly we have talked

about how dangerous this podcast can be to you if you use it unwisely.

A pair of episodes comes to mind on this point.

Seven ways this podcast will kill your joy, that's ABJ 1277, and we followed that with

an episode titled When to Stop Listening to this podcast, those ABJ 1382.

But today we talk about podcasting more generally, and a question that comes to us from a listener

named Joel, Pastor John, thank you for this podcast.

It seems that podcasting is more and more prevalent these days, specifically as a Christian,

I see podcasts hosted by other professing Christians.

The same information is often rehashed and recycled over and over again, and much of

the information focuses on the demise of another Christian personality or denomination

or school.

This grieves me and I am concerned what dangers do you see in Christians pursuing Christian

podcasts for information learning, quote unquote discernment or simply for entertainment.

I see dangers everywhere, but that's not unique to podcasting.

I see dangers everywhere everywhere because soon as everywhere, the devil is everywhere,

the spirit of this world is everywhere.

So when I point out the dangers of podcasting, it's not because I'm blind to dangers elsewhere

or to the potential good in podcasting.

After all, Pastor John is a podcast.

So whoa, to me, if I presume to be hypocritical in throwing stones, I think the list of dangers

could go on for pages because really all you have to do is read the New Testament and

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