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Tony Reinke

Tony Reinke is a senior teacher for Desiring God, host of the Ask Pastor John podcast, and author of God, Technology, and the Christian Life (2022). He lives in the Phoenix area with his wife and three children.

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Upcoming Changes to APJ

Upcoming Changes to APJ

Tony Reinke shares two upcoming changes to ‘Ask Pastor John’ in light of a brand-new John Piper sermon podcast called ‘Light + Truth.’

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Death Can Only Make Me Better: Remembering Tim Keller (1950–2023)

Death Can Only Make Me Better: Remembering Tim Keller (1950–2023)

On May 19, 2023, Tim Keller entered the reward of his Master. In this special episode of Ask Pastor John, Tony Reinke shares a sermon clip from Dr. Keller on the joy of God in the face of cancer.

Harnessing the Lightning: Tesla’s 3,000-Year Backstory

Harnessing the Lightning

Tesla’s 3,000-Year Backstory

Is a lightning rod — and by extension, all other tech — an act of faith or an act of God-thwarting unbelief?

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Is Technology Holy or Worldly?

Is Technology Holy or Worldly?

How can Christians live faithfully in the day of Big Tech? In ‘God, Technology, and the Christian Life,’ Tony Reinke explores God’s relationship to the innovations of our age.

God, Technology, and the Christian Life

God, Technology, and the Christian Life

What does God think about technology? Many Christians remain perplexed about modern technology. New iPhones and social media platforms, self-driving cars, and genetic engineering all prove that human innovation is not slowing down for anyone. But as technologies multiply and…

23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading

23 Tips from 23 Years of Book Reading

Many of us today love to swipe, scroll, and stare, but hardly read. Tony Reinke shares 23 tips for reading more and better in a digital age.

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Satan’s Devices: Standing Fast in the Digital Age

Satan’s Devices

Standing Fast in the Digital Age

Our smartphones and social-media feeds are a spiritual war zone. Don’t be caught powerless in the fight against Satan’s devices.

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Who Will Have Your Attention? Clinging to Christ in the Digital Age

Who Will Have Your Attention?

Clinging to Christ in the Digital Age

In an era of endless screens and scrolling, everything competes for our attention. Unless Christ has captured our hearts, we’ll search for satisfaction in all the wrong places.

God’s Law in the Gospel Age: How Jesus Sets Us Free

God’s Law in the Gospel Age

How Jesus Sets Us Free

The local church is an epicenter of genuine love because we serve a God who emanates grace, love, and joy from his very essence.

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Glory-Finding in the Gospel of John: The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 2)

Glory-Finding in the Gospel of John

The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 2)

Digital detox is of some value. But unless we recognize that God’s glory is of value in every way, our struggle against self-glory will persist.

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Glory-Seeking in the Gospel of John: The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 1)

Glory-Seeking in the Gospel of John

The War in Our Social Media Feeds (Part 1)

Too often, smartphones are not a window to new worlds, but rather a mirror reflecting what we crave most: our own glory.

Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

Competing Spectacles

Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

The rise of media saturation has ushered in a new age of rivalry with the gospel for the human gaze. We live in an age of competing spectacles.

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How Do I Resist Smartphone Overuse?

How Do I Resist Smartphone Overuse?

Your smartphone is changing you, whether you realize it or not. Tony Reinke explains the costs of smartphone overuse, and how we can resist.

God Wrote This Part of Your Story Too: How He Weaves Sorrow into Joy

God Wrote This Part of Your Story Too

How He Weaves Sorrow into Joy

The joy of God in the life of his children is a precious gift, sometimes concealed, but never extinguished by sorrow, conflict, or human circumstances.

Since You Asked: Marking 100 Million Plays for Ask Pastor John

Since You Asked

Marking 100 Million Plays for Ask Pastor John

You asked. Pastor John answered. God gave the growth. Read the story of Ask Pastor John from Episode 1 to 100 million plays.

The Purest Act of Pleasure: Why God Delights in Election

The Purest Act of Pleasure

Why God Delights in Election

God did not love his bride for her beauty. He is making her beautiful because he loved her.

The Joy Project: An Introduction to Calvinism

The Joy Project

An Introduction to Calvinism

True happiness is not found. The deepest and most enduring happiness breaks into our lives, overcomes our boredom, and ultimately finds us.

Twelve Tips for Parenting in the Digital Age

Twelve Tips for Parenting in the Digital Age

They are woke. They have ambient awareness. They appear confident online. They are never offline. Parents, meet the teenagers of the digital age.

God Put You on the Pale Blue Dot: Why Your Small Life Is Not Meaningless

God Put You on the Pale Blue Dot

Why Your Small Life Is Not Meaningless

If your life begins to feel meaningless, remember that God himself put you on this pale blue dot.

You Were Made to Play: Five Reasons God Created Us to Recreate

You Were Made to Play

Five Reasons God Created Us to Recreate

Productivity loses its power when we lose the ability to play. We’ve become too narrow to make like God makes.

Spring Sports and Sunday Church: Five Suggestions for Parents

Spring Sports and Sunday Church

Five Suggestions for Parents

How should Christian parents think about their children playing on teams that will cost their family Sundays away from church?

The Good Shepherd in Humboldt: Finding Comfort in the Sovereignty of Christ

The Good Shepherd in Humboldt

Finding Comfort in the Sovereignty of Christ

Fifteen junior hockey players were tragically killed when their bus was struck by a semi-truck. Twelve more remain hospitalized. And God still reigns.

Did the Simpsons Ruin a Generation?

Did the Simpsons Ruin a Generation?

Sarcasm has become the language of a generation, empowering everyone to criticize everything without doing anything positively to change what’s wrong.

A Movie So Good It Ruins You: Would You Watch It?

A Movie So Good It Ruins You

Would You Watch It?

When screens become more fun than real life, the Scriptures, and our God, they become major threats to our souls.

Why We Should Escape Social Media (And Why We Don’t)

Why We Should Escape Social Media

(And Why We Don’t)

Social media is a brew of emotionally stimulating drugs we mix for ourselves. We use the noise to drown out the parts of our lives we’d rather not face.

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