![]() ![]() Reading is a fundamental skill in any culture and an integral aspect of society's educational infrastructure. Consequently, a significant negative relationship was found between the high school students’ smartphone addiction level and their reading behaviours, and some recommendations were offered for practitioners and future researchers. A significant positive relationship was found between smartphone addiction and the number of distractions while reading. As far as the reading habits are concerned, the students who reported poor reading habits or did not read any book during the week, and the ones who expressed a distraction each time reading a book reported higher smartphone addiction levels. The analysis of the results showed that girls were more likely than boys to tend towards smartphone addiction. When reading books, students were found to have quitted the reading practice 2.96 times on average. High school students’ smartphone addiction level was found to be moderate, with 8.81 books being read by students over a year. The study was conducted by using the correlational model of quantitative research methods such as descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test, one-way variance analysis, and Pearson correlation coefficient techniques. High school students were included in the study using the convenience sampling method. The sample consisted of 512 high school students studying in various private schools located in Turkish cities of Istanbul and Edirne. If you're planning to shop with Amazon, click this link first! A portion of anything you spend will help me purchase new books to review.This research aims to examine the relationship between high school students’ reading habits and their smartphone addiction level. Print copies are apparently rare, but the Kindle version is under $4 here. If you’re a pastor, worship leader, or church media technician, I highly recommend grabbing a copy of this book. I pray this book will help us strengthen our relationship, and, in turn, to strengthen the overall media ministry at FBC Powell in a way that leads us toward undistracting excellence week in and week out. I’m grateful to have Ray Stephens, our church’s Director of Media Ministries, as my “wingman,” and am glad we were both able to read this book recently. The best parts of the book are his chapters on the relationship between the Worship Leader and the Sound Guy. ![]() And his decades of expertise working with churches of all sizes and levels of media production give him a unique perspective to communicate a pastoral vision of media ministry to those workers in a way that no technical manual can. Taipale’s writing style and obvious heart for worship make it easy for a guy like me to absorb the necessary technical jargon that will help be better communicate my vision for our church’s worship ministry with those who work in the audio, video, and lighting areas. This small book has proved to be a great resource for me, as I seek to give leadership in an area of worship ministry in which my skills and experience lag far behind my musical expertise. ![]() As a worship pastor, I want to guide our church to avoid the opposite errors of overemphasis on technical excellence-many churches put on such an elaborate production that the gospel can get lost in all the “show”-and lack of emphasis that produces what Piper calls “shoddy ministry”… which, sadly, describes far more churches than those guilty of “excessive finesse.”īut how to accomplish this? How do we get the idea of undistracting excellence from philosophy to practice? There are plenty of technical manuals which focus on the “how to” of technical production, and most books on worship philosophy include some token reference to the importance of media ministries, but there aren’t a lot of resources out there which “connect the dots” between technical excellence and heartfelt worship in a way that is useful and appealing both to technically-minded media workers and to artistically-minded worship musicians. I love this concept, and the heart behind it. ![]() We will invest in equipment good enough to be undistracting in transmitting heartfelt truth.” Natural, undistracting excellence will let the truth and beauty of God shine through. “We will try to sing and play and pray and preach in such a way that people’s attention will not be diverted from the substance by shoddy ministry nor by excessive finesse, elegance, or refinement. One of my favorite descriptions of an ideal approach to the technical aspects of Worship Ministry comes from a supplement to a message series preached by John Piper about two decades ago. Here is his explanation of his great term “undistracting excellence”: “The Heart of Technical Excellence: How to Start, Train, and Operate a Technical Support Ministry with Excellence” by Curt TaipaleĢ017 Reading Challenge - Book 17: A book with 100 pages or less ![]()
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