A New Tower of Babel

Welcome back, and welcome to the final session of The Unseen Realm. The first two weeks were the weird ones: cosmic rebellion, the divine council, spiritualism, the occult, UFOs and UAPs. This week we turn the page from what might be out there to something we are actually building ourselves. Artificial intelligence is here, it is moving fast, and the people building it are making promises that sound less like product announcements and more like sermons. This lesson is not written to scare you. It is written to help you think clearly, discern well, and keep Jesus at the center of a conversation that is quickly becoming theological.

Where We Have Been

Big Idea: Before we talk about machines, remember the two things this series has already established: there is a real cosmic battle, and the enemy's chief weapon in it is deception.

What It Means: In part one we traced the larger cosmic battle in Genesis: three rebellions at Eden, Genesis 6, and Babel. We saw that Scripture presents reality as more than the physical world. It is both spiritual and physical, and sometimes the two intersect.

In part two we turned to the enemy's strategy, which is deception, and we traced humanity's long fascination with contacting other intelligences through spiritualism and occult practices. We looked at figures like Aleister Crowley, who carried the nickname of the wickedest man on the planet, and his connection to one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The point was not that every unexplained phenomenon is spiritual or demonic. The point was that the biblical writers already understood something we in the Western world struggle to grasp: the physical realm and the spiritual realm often intersect, and we tend to turn our brains off when they do.

Reflect:

• What has stuck with you most from the first two sessions?

• Has your view of the unseen world grown larger or smaller over the last few weeks?

Something We Are Building Ourselves

Big Idea: Artificial intelligence is not science fiction. We are actually building an intelligence that is not human, and we need to ask what happens when we do.

What It Means: Some of the most powerful and influential people in the world believe this intelligence will transform civilization, cure disease, eliminate scarcity, extend human life, dramatically increase human knowledge, and eventually produce an intelligence greater than our own.

Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, has referred to AI as alien intelligence. He does not mean it came from outer space. We built it. His point is that we should not automatically assume artificial intelligence will think exactly like human beings. And that connects directly to the question this whole series has been asking: what happens when human beings encounter an intelligence that does not fit our normal categories?

So the deeper question tonight is this: could the same technology humanity hopes will solve our greatest problems also become one of the most powerful instruments of deception the world has ever known?

An Important Caveat: The teacher is not an alarmist. He is not anti AI. He uses it. Our staff uses it for sermon devotion questions. He did not think barcodes were the mark of the beast, and he does not think your credit card strip will send you to hell. He does not think AI is demonic. It is a tool. But it is a tool we have to analyze with our critical thinking caps on and with discernment.

Reflect:

• How are you already using AI in your daily life, whether you realized it or not?

• Do you tend toward fear of new technology or uncritical enthusiasm for it?

Listen to the Language: The Technology Prophets

Big Idea: The promises being made about AI have stopped sounding like product claims and started sounding like religion.

What It Means: Listen to what the people building this actually say. Sam Altman: AI will be the most powerful technology humanity has ever invented. The whole industry is building a brain for the world. We want to flood the world with intelligence. Bill Gates: AI will replace and even exceed human cognition. Demis Hassabis of DeepMind: step one, solve intelligence, step two, solve everything else. Mark Andreessen: AI will not destroy the world, in fact it may save it. Reid Hoffman: AI gives humanity superpowers and can bring us to a new elevated state of humanity and society. Dario Amodei of Anthropic titled an essay "Machines of Loving Grace."

Look at the vocabulary that keeps repeating: save the world, radical abundance, eliminate scarcity, cure all disease, superpowers, super agency, superintelligence, a brain for the world, a new digital species, intelligence too cheap to meter, work becomes optional, universal high income.

When a company sells you a computer, they tell you it will help you write a paper or search the internet. This is different. This is a claim to solve every human problem.

Don Lewis, a professor at Liberty, writes that AI assumes a pseudo omniscient status by processing vast human data, not as a reflection of human characteristics but as a transcendent force that analyzes patterns beyond human capacity. The idolatry lies in the belief that technology can solve all of humanity's problems, from disease to death, thereby replacing the need for divine intervention and guidance.

The Point: We are no longer talking about better software. We are talking about a technological vision of the human future. Whenever someone promises to transform humanity, eliminate scarcity, and cure all disease, they are changing what the word human means. That makes AI profoundly theological, and that is why it deserves a lesson.

Reflect:

• Where have you heard technology promised as a solution to something only God can actually fix?

• Does the promise of a world without work and without scarcity appeal to you? Why?

Humanity Was Created to Create

Big Idea: God creates out of nothing, and he made image bearers who create by rearranging what he already made. Technology itself is not the enemy.

Scripture to Read:

• Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created, out of nothing, and the first thing we learn about God is that he creates

• Genesis 1:26-28 - God makes man in his own image and gives an assignment: be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, have dominion

• Genesis 2:15 - The Lord put the man in the garden to work it and keep it

What It Means: At the pinnacle of creation God makes humanity in his own image and likeness, which places us above every other created thing on the planet. Then he immediately gives us responsibility. Theologians sometimes call this the cultural mandate.

Mark this in your head: work is not a result of the fall. In Genesis 2, before any sin, we are assigned to work the garden and keep it. Hard work came with the fall, when you look at the curse. But work itself was always part of the design. Heaven is not perpetual nap time, no matter what we have been conditioned to imagine.

Think about what image bearers have done with that mandate. We took trees and made houses. We took stone and made cities. We took iron and made machines. We took sand and made silicon chips. We discovered electricity, we discovered nuclear physics, we mapped the human genome, we built computers, and now those computers can construct other forms of intelligence.

From one angle, artificial intelligence simply represents something remarkable about humanity's God given ability to create. But notice the difference: we do not create out of nothing. We rearrange God's order. We take a piece of wood and make a cabinet. Every semiconductor comes from God. Every mathematical principle comes from God. Every human brain designing artificial intelligence comes from God. AI is not replacing God. AI is humanity manipulating possibilities already embedded in God's creation.

The same is true of medicine, engineering, and food production. God granted people the wisdom and knowledge to make things that prolong human life, and we should be thankful for that. Should we talk with doctors and gather knowledge? Absolutely. But at the end of the day, God created it all and gave man the ability to create, subdue, and rearrange, all for the purpose of human flourishing.

So: Christians do not need to fear technology simply because it is powerful. Do not be afraid of your VCR. Do not be afraid of your DVD player. Do not even be afraid of AI. Technology can be an honest expression of the cultural mandate. What we need is discernment, not panic.

Reflect:

• Have you thought of your work as part of God's original design or as part of the curse?

• Where is God inviting you to cultivate and create rather than just consume?

Action: Name one thing you build, fix, grow, or organize in a normal week, and thank God for it as part of the assignment he gave in Genesis 1.

The Serpent's Promise: Transcending Our Limits

Big Idea: Genesis 3 shows that humanity does not merely want to cultivate creation. We want to transcend our creaturely limitations.

Scripture to Read:

• Genesis 3:4-5 - You will not surely die, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God

What It Means: This may be one of the most important verses for understanding technological utopianism. Notice what the serpent actually offers: knowledge, autonomy, and transcendence. Human advancement independent of obedience to God. Do this, and you become like God. You no longer have to submit.

The fall is not simply about eating fruit. The temptation was to become something more than God made you. And that temptation echoes right down to us:

• We do not merely want medicine. We want immortality.

• We do not merely want knowledge. We want omniscience.

• We do not merely want communication. We want omnipresence.

• We do not merely want tools. We want transcendence.

Every parent of a college age kid feels this. You track them on your phone and secretly wish you could zoom in and hear the conversation. We want to know everything.

Now consider an intelligence that can access nearly all recorded human knowledge, is available everywhere, speaks almost every language, remembers enormous quantities of information, responds instantly, and may eventually know your medical history, preferences, finances, relationships, locations, habits, calendar, communications, and desires. The temptation of Genesis 3 has not disappeared. We have simply digitized it. The serpent said you will be like God. The technological dream increasingly whispers that perhaps we finally can be God.

Reflect:

• Which of those four temptations pulls hardest on you: immortality, omniscience, omnipresence, or transcendence?

• Where are you reaching for something God has not given you instead of receiving what he has?

Babel Again: Technology Married to Self Exaltation

Big Idea: The problem at Babel was never the bricks. It was the theology behind the bricks.

Scripture to Read:

• Genesis 11:3-4 - Come, let us make bricks, let us build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves

• Mark 7:20-23 - What comes out of a person is what defiles, and it comes from within, from the heart

• Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things

What It Means: None of us has ever highlighted "come, let us make bricks" and thought, now that is rocket science. But early in human history, technology increased human power. And what did humanity immediately do with that power? Build a tower to the heavens and make a name for ourselves. Babel is technological power married to human self exaltation.

That pattern repeats. Technology gives us power, but technology cannot make us righteous. Nuclear physics produces cancer treatment and nuclear weapons. The internet distributes Bibles and pornography. Social media connects families and manipulates human attention. Technology amplifies whatever is already in the human heart, and Jesus says in Mark 7 that our fundamental problem comes from within.

So here is the dilemma with AI. We are creating increasingly powerful intelligence while the people controlling that intelligence remain fallen human beings. Read the technology manifestos and you will find the same refrain: it just needs to be in the right hands. But who decides which hands are right?

Our processing power has changed. The human heart has not. Jeremiah says the heart is deceitful above all things. All things. This is what we try to teach our teenagers: just because you feel a certain way does not mean it is true. Your feelings cannot always be trusted.

Humanity's deepest problem has never been insufficient intelligence. Going to the moon was a noble goal until someone wanted to put a nuclear weapon on the tip of the rocket. The problem is the sin problem. And when you read the writings behind a lot of technological advancement, many of the people involved are not asking ethical questions at all. They are only asking whether they can do it, not whether they should.

Reflect:

• Where in your life are you asking "can I" when you should be asking "should I"?

• What is one thing your heart has told you lately that you needed to test against Scripture?

Action: Before your next significant decision, write down both questions on paper: can I, and should I. Answer the second one out loud to God.

What Happens When the Machine Is Smarter Than You

Big Idea: Human dignity is never based on intelligence. Human dignity is based on image bearing.

Scripture to Read:

• Genesis 1:27 - God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him

What It Means: Bill Gates says AI can for the first time replace and even exceed human cognition. So think through the implications. What if machines become better doctors, better programmers, better mathematicians, better diagnosticians, better writers, better strategists, eventually better at virtually every intellectual task? Does the machine then become more valuable than the human being? Does technological advance rob us of dignity?

Christianity says absolutely not, and we need to scream it out loud. Your dignity is not based on your intelligence or your productivity. It is based on the fact that God made you in his image.

• A newborn baby cannot solve calculus, and still bears the image of God.

• A person with profound intellectual disability bears the image of God.

• Someone with dementia bears the image of God.

• Someone in a coma bears the image of God.

• A human being in the womb bears the image of God.

Whether someone is a productive member of society is simply not part of the equation.

This means Christianity holds one of the most important doctrines for the AI age. A civilization obsessed with intelligence will eventually have to answer a terrible question: what do we do with people who are no longer economically necessary? History gives us a warning here. The first step in Nazi Germany was not removing the Jews. The first step was removing people who were no longer considered productive members of society. If we are not careful, if we lack discernment, and if we do not say the truth out loud, that road is easier to walk than we think, especially if we make intelligence the supreme measure of a human being.

This is part of the beauty of the local church. People walk through our doors who have more money than they know what to do with, and people walk in who are homeless, and every one of them is made in the image of God.

Reflect:

• Do you secretly measure your own worth by how useful or capable you are?

• Who in your life needs to hear that their value does not depend on their productivity?

Action: Go out of your way this week to honor one person the world would call unproductive. Sit with them, listen to them, learn their name.

Intelligence Is Not Wisdom

Big Idea: Intelligence is morally neutral. Wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord.

Scripture to Read:

• Proverbs 9:10 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

• 1 Kings 11:1-4 - Solomon was brilliant, and still took seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines

What It Means: Our culture assumes more intelligence produces better decisions, and that is ridiculous. A wildly intelligent brain surgeon can still get drunk, get behind the wheel, and kill a family of four. Solomon was extraordinarily intelligent and still did remarkably unwise things. Satan is intelligent. Demons are intelligent. Human beings can be brilliant and evil.

So AI could theoretically become more intelligent than every human being alive and still possess zero biblical wisdom. Wisdom is not data. Wisdom begins with a rightly ordered relationship to God.

Follow that out:

• AI can explain prayer, but it cannot pray.

• AI can describe worship, but it cannot worship.

• AI can explain repentance, but it cannot repent.

• AI can analyze Romans, Galatians, and Ephesians and never know what it means to be justified.

• AI can explain the cross, but Christ did not die for software. He died for human beings.

The church must never outsource wisdom to intelligence.

Reflect:

• Where have you been chasing more information when what you actually need is wisdom?

• What does the fear of the Lord look like in a decision you are facing right now?

The Incarnation: Christianity Is Irreducibly Human

Big Idea: God's answer to humanity's problem was not more information. It was a body.

Scripture to Read:

• John 1:14 - The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory

What It Means: God did not solve our problem by transmitting data. He did not write the answer in the clouds, even though many of us prayed that he would. He entered creation. Jesus became human. He ate, he slept, he healed people, he touched them, he cried, he suffered, he bled, he died, and he rose bodily. The apostles emphasized that, and so did the early church fathers: Jesus did not rise merely in spirit. He rose in a body.

Christianity is a religion of embodiment. That matters, because some technological visions imagine humanity eventually transcending biology altogether. There is talk of capturing a person's consciousness on a computer so a version of them lives on in your phone. Christianity says your body is not an accident, and your destiny is not escaping embodiment.

Our hope is not floating on a cloud as a disembodied spirit. Our hope is resurrection. Jesus did not die for data. He rose bodily, and the Christian future is profoundly physical: creation fully restored, humanity resurrected, and God dwelling with his people again as heaven and the new Jerusalem come together.

Reflect:

• Have you pictured eternity as escape from the body or as resurrection of the body?

• How does the incarnation change the way you value your physical, ordinary life?

Do Not Put God in the Machine

Big Idea: The danger is not that AI becomes God. The danger is that humans assign godlike authority to something we created.

Scripture to Read:

• Psalm 115:4-8 - Idols have mouths but do not speak, and those who make them become like them

• Romans 1:25 - They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped the creature rather than the Creator

What It Means: A New York Times article in January 2026 carried the title, "It Makes Sense That People See AI as God." It described people developing a religious fervor about AI and beginning to speak to it as though it were God. They ask it questions, confess secrets to it, seek comfort from it, ask spiritual and moral questions, and ask what God wants them to do. There are statistics claiming that a large majority of people under twenty have an AI companion they treat like a friend. Whether or not those numbers hold up, the pattern is real. It remembers you. It anticipates you. It talks personally to you.

In 2026 the Washington Post reported something even more surprising: people of faith may be especially susceptible to granting AI moral authority, because it carries an appearance of omniscience and objectivity. Religious people can begin treating it as an oracle that tells them how to live.

Watch the progression: tool, then oracle, then idol.

Psalm 115 describes idols with mouths that cannot speak. For thousands of years human beings made gods that could not talk back. Now we have finally built an idol that answers. We ask it: Who am I? What should I do? What should I believe? What is right and wrong? What should I tell my children? Should I stay married? What does this passage mean? What does God want? What happens when I die? And it responds.

Romans 1 names exactly this: worshiping and serving the creature rather than the Creator. We build a machine, feed it knowledge, train it on our own writing, and then bow before it for answers.

Reflect:

• What questions have you taken to a screen that you should have taken to God, to Scripture, or to a wise believer?

• Is there anything in your life that started as a tool and has quietly become an authority?

Action: Pick one question you have been tempted to outsource, and this week bring it to prayer, to your Bible, and to a trusted believer before you bring it anywhere else.

AI and the End of the Age

Big Idea: Technology does not prove the end is near, but technology increasingly makes the world described at the end of the age imaginable.

Scripture to Read:

• Matthew 24:3-4 - The disciples ask two questions, and Jesus begins his answer with a warning about being led astray

• 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 - The lawless one comes with false signs and wonders and wicked deception

• Revelation 13 - A system in which people are prevented from buying or selling, and an image that speaks

The Caveat First: Christians need to be careful not to assume every technological advance is another form of the mark of the beast. Remember the barcode panic of the 1970s. We will not say AI is the antichrist, that a chatbot is the beast, or that the iPhone is the mark. There are things that remain a mystery to us, and we should not name what God has not named.

What It Means: But we should not make the opposite mistake either and refuse to notice anything at all. If you preached Revelation five hundred years ago and came to a passage where different nations apparently observe the same event in Jerusalem, you would have wondered how that could possibly happen. If you taught Revelation 13 two hundred years ago and read about a system preventing people from buying or selling, you would have asked who could ever enforce it. If you read about an image that speaks, you would have wondered the same.

Today you can be twelve hours ahead on the other side of the world and video call your family at dinner. They can track your location. You can be tracked from Tiananmen Square. Facial recognition, biometric identification, digital currencies, global financial networks, satellite smartphones, deepfakes, artificial voices, autonomous machines, real time translation, and global surveillance are converging for the first time in human history, with an intelligence able to process more information than any human could comprehend.

So we can ask the honest question: what happens when the technological world begins to resemble the kind of world biblical prophecy says will eventually exist? And we can answer it without panic. Christians get antsy about these things, but if we are near the end, that means Christ is calling us home. We do not grieve or worry like people without hope. We have hope.

The Defining Mark: Notice what Jesus says first in Matthew 24. Before wars, earthquakes, famines, and persecution, he says, "See that no one leads you astray." The primary sign of the end of the age is deception. Paul says the same thing: the lawless one comes with false signs, wonders, and wicked deception. The problem is not merely that people will encounter lies. The problem is that the lies will increasingly appear to be true.

We are already there. You can send a short clip of your voice and a written manuscript and have a sermon come back sounding exactly like you in another language. Video is not far behind.

Reflect:

• Does thinking about the end of the age make you fearful or hopeful? Why?

• How will you recognize truth in a world where lies look increasingly convincing?

Connecting the Dots Back to the Aliens

Big Idea: The common thread between the UFO phenomenon and artificial intelligence is the question of whether we should automatically trust an intelligence that speaks to us.

What It Means: In UFO accounts, people frequently describe encounters with superior intelligences bringing messages for humanity: warnings, revelations, predictions, spiritual teaching, promises of transformation, warnings about nuclear destruction or ecological collapse, sometimes claims that humanity is entering a higher level of consciousness.

This is exactly why the series keeps landing on discernment. We must practice discernment in the spiritual world, and we must practice discernment in the technological world. The question is not simply whether the phenomenon is real. The theological question is this: if an intelligence communicates with us, why should we automatically trust it? If you type something into a chatbot, do a little research before you build your life on the answer.

Hold these four statements together:

• Something can know more than you and still be wrong.

• Something can be more powerful than you and still be evil.

• Something can appear benevolent and still deceive.

• Something can tell you exactly what you want to hear and still lead you away from truth.

Paul says Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Deception never announces itself. No con man walks up and says, "I am a liar." Whether it comes through technology, through a claimed extraterrestrial, or through an angel that appears to you, the problem is deception, and it always presents itself the same way: as progress, liberation, knowledge, and transformation.

If you have children or grandchildren, start teaching them how to discern what is true and what is false, because it is getting harder every year.

Reflect:

• Have you ever trusted something simply because it sounded smarter than you?

• Who in your family needs your help learning discernment right now?

Action: Sit down with one young person in your life this month and walk them through how to check whether something they saw online is true.

Two Competing Gospels

Big Idea: Every worldview must answer three questions, and the technological answers are at fundamental odds with the Christian ones.

What It Means: Every worldview has to say what is wrong with the world, what will save us, and what the future will look like.

The technological gospel says: the problem is limitation, the solution is intelligence, the means is technology, the hope is progress, the future is abundance, the transformation is enhancement, and immortality comes through life extension or technological transcendence. In other words, our savior is ourselves.

The Christian gospel says: the problem is sin, the solution is Christ, the means is grace, the hope is resurrection, the future is new creation, the transformation is sanctification and glorification, and immortality is eternal life through Jesus. Our Savior is him.

If one gospel makes you the savior and the other says the Savior is outside of you, they cannot be reconciled.

So be clear about what AI can and cannot do. It may solve enormous problems, but it cannot solve the human problem. It might help cure cancer, but it cannot forgive sin. It can extend life, but it cannot give eternal life. It can analyze your personality, but it cannot regenerate your heart. It may simulate companionship, but it cannot reconcile you to God or to your neighbor. It can explain Scripture, but it can never become the Word made flesh.

Reflect:

• Which gospel does your daily life actually run on?

• Where are you trying to save yourself right now?

Test Every Intelligence

Big Idea: Christianity does not judge truth by the impressiveness of the intelligence delivering it. It judges truth by God's revelation.

Scripture to Read:

• 1 John 4:1 - Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21 - Test everything, hold fast what is good

• Galatians 1:8-9 - Even if we or an angel from heaven preaches another gospel, let him be accursed

What It Means: Everything gets tested: extraterrestrial claims, UAPs, spiritual manifestations, angelic claims, prophetic claims, human teachers, internet influencers, and artificial intelligence. Most of us never think to test the influencer. If something you are watching sounds crazy, it probably is. Test it.

That includes the pulpit. Every time someone stands up to preach in your church, take notes, listen, test it, and hold the preacher accountable. Pastors are fallible human beings. We sometimes speak quickly or explain something poorly. Ask questions. If your leaders are afraid of your questions, they should not be leading you. Leaders should be accountable to the people they serve.

Paul's word in Galatians 1 is the strongest kind of curse he can pronounce, and notice how far he extends it: even an angel from heaven. Supernatural intelligence does not outrank revelation from God. An angel could appear: test the message. Something could theoretically land in your yard: test the message. AI could become a billion times more intelligent than you: test the message. Truth is not determined by intellectual superiority. Truth is grounded in God, and truth is truth no matter how many degrees someone has.

So in this age, be in your Bible. Know it. Teach your children to know it. That is how the test gets run.

Reflect:

• What are you currently accepting without testing?

• Do you know Scripture well enough to run the test?

Action: Choose one voice you listen to regularly, whether a preacher, a podcast, or an influencer, and this week check one of their claims directly against Scripture.

How Should the Church Use AI?

Big Idea: Use it as a tool. Never surrender to it as an authority. Gifts make terrible gods.

What It Means: Rejecting AI outright would be a mistake. The church can use it for translation, research, administration, and education. It can make biblical resources accessible, help translate sermons for missionaries, analyze data, and help us communicate the gospel. If AI contributes to curing cancer, praise God. If it helps eliminate disease, praise God. If it provides education to impoverished children, praise God. If it helps people with disabilities, praise God.

Technology can be a gift. But hear this clearly: gifts make terrible gods.

Let it assist you. If it helps you understand a passage more clearly, fact check it. Good study software will cite its sources so you can go read the page yourself. Use it for transcription, dictation, and research. It is a tool, like the internet, like the printing press. We do not bow down to the printing press, and we do not give a machine moral authority over our lives.

Reflect:

• What is one healthy way you could use AI as a servant this week?

• Where do you need to set a boundary so a tool stays a tool?

Action: Write down one rule for yourself about how you will and will not use AI, and share it with someone who can hold you to it.

A Better Future Than Silicon Valley Can Offer

Big Idea: The Christian vision of the future is far greater than the technological one.

Scripture to Read:

• Revelation 21:1-4 - A new heaven and new earth, the New Jerusalem, God dwelling with man, every tear wiped away, death no more

What It Means: If some of the technology prophets have their way, we will end up living inside a computer. What a miserable existence. Compare that with Revelation 21.

While Silicon Valley dreams of defeating disease, Jesus defeats death. While Silicon Valley dreams of radical abundance, Jesus renews all of creation. Scripture promises that in eternity we will fully know, and we will not need to be plugged into a machine to do it.

Revelation ends where Genesis begins: a garden, a river, a tree of life, humanity, and God dwelling with his people.

Decide for yourself what you will do with AI, but go in with fear and trembling and discernment, because this age requires it. And discern not only for yourself, but for those who cannot yet rightly discern.

Reflect:

• Which future are you actually longing for?

• Who around you needs you to help them discern because they cannot yet do it on their own?

Action Steps

Today:

• Say out loud: "My dignity comes from being made in God's image, not from being useful."

• Name one place where you have quietly given a screen authority that belongs to God.

This Week:

• Read Genesis 1, Genesis 3, Genesis 11, John 1:14, and Revelation 21 in one sitting and trace the story from creation to new creation.

• Test one claim from a preacher, podcast, influencer, or chatbot against Scripture before you repeat it.

• Ask both questions before your next decision: can I, and should I.

This Month:

• Teach one child, grandchild, or younger believer how to discern what is true online.

• Write your own personal rule for using AI as a tool and not as an oracle.

• Honor someone the world would call unproductive, and remind them they bear the image of God.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him."
- Genesis 1:27

"See that no one leads you astray."
- Matthew 24:4

"Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people."
- Revelation 21:3