Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast.

I'm your host, John Harris.

And today we have a special treat.

I don't talk about

psychology or even counseling or self-improvement, all that much. I, as you know, if you listen to

this podcast, talk a lot more about social justice and political things and, you know, things

that affect Christians from a social and cultural

angle. But today, and I think this actually does fit in with a cultural social angle,

we're going to talk to John David Haskins, who has written a book I read over the Christmas

break, if you will, on screen addictions and pornography, but really just more in general,

quitting habits. And just real brief background on why I read this. I saw a thread on

Twitter and from John David Haskins on, I or guess X now they call it X on screen

addictions and it was a it was a threat I kept reading it and it was it was basically an

advertisement for his book but I thought you know I I would like to be less on X I'm seeing

this on X but I'm like I'd like to be less on X, especially on my phone

for 2025. And I was preaching a sermon on New Year's resolutions. And I thought, yeah,

this would be a good book to seem like easy reading and just, you know, see what he has to say.

And I read it and I thought, this is actually pretty good. Like this is, and it, you know, see what he has to say. And, and I read it, and I thought, this is actually pretty good.

Like this is, and it, you know, he says some things in there, and I'll get into that as we talk,

but that I haven't seen emphasized as much in even some of the biblical counseling.

And I've, of course, been to seminary, and I've taken a lot of grad level courses on biblical

counseling and so forth.

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