Rule Your Tech
(So It Won't Rule You)
A Christian leader's guide to help you flourish in an age of digital distraction with biblical wisdom, neuroscience and practical habits to reclaim attention and set life-giving boundaries around technology.
No force today shapes our daily lives and character more than our digital devices.
Christian leaders worldwide are grappling with this reality and how best to manage digital overwhelm.
Additionally, smartphones have swept across the Majority World even more rapidly than in the West, yet churches in these contexts often have few — if any — resources to help them respond wisely.
Rule Your Tech (So It Doesn’t Rule You) fills that gap by blending age-old Christian wisdom, scientific insight and real-life application in a succinct, highly accessible volume. Its brevity and clarity also make it particularly translation-friendly for believers worldwide.
Rule Your Tech (So It Won't Rule You)
A Christian Leader’s Guide to Wise Tech Use That Keeps You Calm, Focused and Flourishing
Rule Your Tech (So It Won’t Rule You) is for Christian leaders longing to flourish in an age of distraction, exhaustion and digital overwhelm. Short and accessible, it gives a clear, evidence-based understanding of how digital devices shape our minds, relationships and spiritual lives. It draws deeply from Scripture, neuroscience and the timeless wisdom of Christian formation to help you receive technology’s gifts while setting firm, life-giving boundaries around its place in our homes and hearts. The message is simple and hopeful: attention is formation — and through small daily habits, Christians can reclaim attention to regain calm, focus and fruitful service.
What You'll Gain
Rule Your Tech (So It Won’t Rule You) offers a deeply Christian framework for digital discernment in an accessible guide. It offers both a biblical foundation and practical guidance to reclaim attention and develop technology habits to support flourishing and discipleship.
A Deeply Christian Framework to Support Digital Discernment: Gain a biblically grounded and evidence-based understanding of how technology shapes our minds, relationships and spiritual lives — and how Christians can respond with wisdom and intentionality.
Tools to Develop a Tech Rule of Life: Learn small changes that make an outsized difference for focus, calm and relationships — then develop a custom plan to cultivate habits that lead to flourishing.
Greater Presence to Lead & Disciple Others: Cultivate a deeper attentiveness to God and others so you can lead and disciple others with full presence and clarity.
Small-Group Study Guide to Apply Learning Together (Bonus Feature): Put principles into practice alongside others through a discussion-based study guide designed for churches, teams and small groups.
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"Our smartphones and other devices offer us many benefits. But they come at a cost. They can also drive anxiety, splinter our focus, and diminish our family life, ministry, and more. Jedd has written a gift to any leader who wants to help others and themselves. Rule Your Tech is essential reading on navigating the good of technology while avoiding its harms. It offers deep insight paired with a simple vision for regaining our calm, focus, and joy. We all know screens impact us, and this book will help you understand why and guide you thoughtfully in what to do about it."
"Few books have challenged me so much in so few pages. Jedd beautifully combines extensive research, biblical truth, and grace-saturated wisdom to expose the subtle ways technology forms us and offers a hopeful path toward living with greater intention. His words carry weight because they flow from a life that reflects the message he shares. He doesn't simply point to a better way–he helps us see it, believe it's possible, and invites us to walk it with him. I found myself challenged page after page–not by guilt, but by a beautiful vision of a life marked by greater presence, deeper relationships, and a more attentive walk with Christ."
"We deeply need a worldwide movement to rethink the role of tech in our lives, and above all our children’s lives. This is a crucial, readable, clear call to chart a different path than the default settings of our devices — and the culture that has produced them."
"Please read this short book — it's filled with wisdom and hope! We are all trying to navigate a world swimming in technology. Jedd isn't asking you to throw your phone away; he's very kind, and wise. I've begun to implement some of these suggestions and this will rescue you and your household!"
“I have long appreciated Jedd’s voice on technology and discipleship to Jesus. I’m so glad the world can now have it in book form.”
About the Author
Jedd Medefind
Jedd Medefind has taught and written on spiritual formation, leadership, human flourishing and digital life for more than a decade, first introducing the concept of a “Tech Rule” in a 2016 Washington Post article.
Prior to serving as president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO), Jedd worked at the White House under President George W. Bush, helping lead faith-based initiatives focused on adoption, foster care and vulnerable children. Having worked alongside Christian leaders in more than 40 countries, Jedd has cultivated a deep love for and understanding of the global Body of Christ. He is also the host of the podcast Justice and the Inner Life, which explores the habits and practices God uses to sustain believers over a lifetime of service, featuring guests such as Joni Eareckson Tada and Francis Chan, with a new season launching in 2027. Through years of personal trial and error, as well as shared learning within CAFO’s staff and global network, Jedd has developed practical, grounded guidance for Christian flourishing amid the profound and growing challenges of modern technology.
Jedd lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Rachel and their five children–Siena, Marin, Eden, Lincoln and Pheobe.
Reclaim your attention, calm and vitality through small, intentional habits
If you desire to lead wisely and flourish in mind, body and spirit in an age awash in digital distraction, this book is for you. Rule Your Tech (So It Won’t Rule You) provides a simple, hopeful message: attention is formation — and through small daily habits, you can reclaim your focus for fruitful service.
