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Internet in the home: Protecting Your Family

Working with technology as I do, the Internet has been an incredible help to me in my work.  For instance, part of what I do has me communicating with people in places like California, Bogata, Barcelona and Hong Kong.  I also work between the office and a home office and regularly move a lot of information around as we work on tools to communicate the gospel to people around the world. But the Internet is of course a double-edged sword.  If you have an email account you already know that our email boxes are bombarded with SPAM, some of it rather vile, unless you have a filter.  It's not much of a leap to see how Jesus' warning in Matthew 24, " Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold..."   (in that rather chilling chapter about the end times) is at our door now. Our greatest defense is a close walk with the Lord as we 'put on our spiritual armor...to quench the firey darts of the evil one' (Eph 6:11,16).  I've also found t