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Daniel Darling is the Senior Pastor of Gages Lake Bible Church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago and is the author of Teen People of the Bible, Crash CourseiFaith, and was a contributing writer to Zondervan’s Couples Devotional Bible. His work has also been featured in evangelical publications such as Focus on the Family, Marriage Partnership, Pray!, and In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley.

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5 Traps for Christians Using Social Media

You’re reading this post, most likely sent here from someone’s tweet or Facebook post. So I don’t have to tell you that we live in a new age of social sharing. I would say that…

The Lamest Excuse for Not Using Internet Accountability

“Yeah, I don’t need Internet Accountability. That’s for people who have a problem.” If I had a dollar every time I heard a version of this excuse given by guys not to use an online…

Saying No to Temptation: The Fuel of Commitment

Around our house, everybody pitches in to help keep the house in good shape. So after dinner, my eight-year old daughter, Grace, helps my wife load the dishwasher. My four-year old son, Daniel, wipes the…

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A Parent’s Role in Preventing Facebook Addiction:

According to a recent survey, 75% of teens have a Facebook profile, 54% check their status once a day, and 65% of them access Facebook through their mobile devices. Teens are living, increasingly, in a…

5 Facebook Friends You Don’t Want

Social networking is a wonderful invention, a tool that can be used  both for ministry and for expanding and enriching friendships and family relationships. But like any technology, it has its pitfalls. One of those…

Guardrails and Grace

I was born, raised, and still live in Illinois, a flat, agricultural state willed with cornfields and farms. So whenever I have the chance to visit a mountainous region, I get excited. Mountains take my…

5 Things You Can’t Do on Facebook

Facebook and all social networking sites are wonderful tools that enable us to connect with people we love, discover and promote interesting and helpful content, and spread important messages. But there are some really important…

10 Things You Should Never Do Online

1) Air private grievances. Resist the worldly temptation to craft a Facebook post, a Tweet, or a blog and air what should be settled in private. Resolve your conflicts in a personal and private way.…

Is Jesus Sticky? – Interview with Toni Birdsong

At the end of February I attended the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, TN—my first time—and met quite a few terrific gospel communicators, who are faithful in sharing the gospel across old, new, and…