Social Media Pressure: Finding Peace Alongside Jesus
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Social Media Pressure helps show why social media can leave you feeling sad, anxious, and depressed and points to practical ways of turning to Jesus for rest and wholeness.
Statistics show that we (especially teens) spend most of our waking hours on screens, without a lot of direction on managing our online life. In this devotional, John Perritt, a longtime youth pastor, will guide you in making sure that your relationship with God remains at the center of your life without letting your phone take over.
The devotionals address social media pressures including the fear of missing out, comparing yourself with others, being bullied, and even being addicted. They will help you interact with social media in a way that is sensible, smart, and even biblical, while at the same time finding the peace that comes with walking alongside Jesus.
Social Media Pressure is the second book in the Devotions for Teenagers series.
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- Responds to the anxiety many of us feel through our experience with social media
- Uncovers how social media can affect relationships, mental health, and perception of the world
- Addresses social media pressures such as the fear of missing out, comparing, bullying, and addiction
- God’s Face
- God’s Presence
- God’s Constancy
- God’s Comfort
- Others Have
- Others’ Happiness
- Others’ Harshness
- Others’ Harm
- Our Worship
- Our Sin
- Our Technology
- Our Deceit
- Heart
- Love
- Joy
- Peace
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
My goodness, this book is important! What John accomplishes here is so vital not only for the young but for all of us. Here is a word of peace over the chaos of social media. And boy do we need it. This is a much-needed book in a world that is fragmenting.
—A.J. Swoboda, Associate professor of Bible, Theology, and World Christianity, Bushnell University; author of After Doubt and Subversive Sabbath
I write about Christians and our relationship with social media, and I have to say this book handles the topic of social media and youth very well. But what I love most about this book is John's heart. John cares for students and wants them to thrive in a relationship with Jesus, and that is evident in this book.
—Chris Martin, Author of Terms of Service: The Real Cost of Social Media and The Wolf in Their Pocket; content marketing editor, Moody Publishers; social media and communications consultant
This clear-eyed, compelling, and challenging devotional is perfect for teens or young adults (as well as their parents or youth leaders) who are serious about following Jesus in a digital age. John Perritt leads readers to examine their habits, identify their sin, and begin to interact with social media in a healthy, purposeful way. This would work well for individual devotions but even better as a study for youth groups or campus ministries to do together.
—Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Senior Writer, The Gospel Coalition; coauthor of Gospelbound: Living with Resolute Hope in an Anxious Age; editor of Social Sanity in an Insta World
- Title: Social Media Pressure
- Author: John Perritt
- Series: Devotions for Teenagers
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Pages: 146
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781645073109, 1645073106
- Resource ID: LLS:SCLMDPRSSR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-10T21:39:00Z
John Perritt, DMin, serves as the Director of Resources for Reformed Youth Ministries and has served in student ministry for over twenty years. He is the host of The Local Youth Worker podcast. John is the author of several books, including Mark: How Jesus Changes Everything and Social Media Pressure. He and his wife, Ashleigh, have five children and live in Ridgeland, MS.