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Author Trimble offers a salient and significant examination of the potential ills produced by modern technologies, drawing on the Holy Bible to support his thesis. The biblical declaration that one can keep his soul from troubles by guarding "his mouth and tongue" is updated as guarding "his Facebook and Instagram." Trimble notes that Steve Jobs, who introduced the iPad, did not allow his own children to have one, while Bill Gates' offspring were not allowed to explore Microsoft until they were fourteen. Establishing a basis of religious truths and solid statements from modern and historical thinkers, Trimble asserts that through reliance on cell phones, one may denigrate and destroy relationships and develop unwanted anxieties.
Once thinking his car had broken down because it was making odd, loud noises, Trimble pulled off the road, only to discover that the noises came from another vehicle. Such experiences led him to the understanding that listening to and obeying technologically produced voices and concepts screaming for attention is not the answer; whereas rejoicing in eternal truths set forth by Christ will impose morality on technological devices, rather than letting them dominate. In this way, one can better hear and share the word of God, a spiritual strategy Trimble deftly illuminates.
Trimble has ministered on four continents and holds a doctorate in strategic leadership, demonstrating a combination of spiritual insight and intellectual discernment that supports this well-organized, frank, and sometimes amusing treatise. It is clearly his intention to apply his understanding of the overarching power of Christian beliefs to the contrasting, common addiction to modern technologies that threaten those higher principles. Trimble's work will be welcome in group settings and to individual seekers, offering fresh perspectives concerning the complex issues he has so wisely elucidated.