Matthew 2 – “Limiting Our Use of Smartphones and Why It Matters” – January 6, 2019

This world can be a dangerous place for children. It is true today and it was true in the time of Jesus. Matthew tells a story told nowhere else in the Gospels about a massacre of very young children by King Herod. Herod was so afraid of a new king rising up to challenge his family’s power that when the magi failed to come back to him with the baby Jesus’ location, Herod ordered the massacre of all young children in the region. It did not matter to him that hundreds of innocent children would be killed as long as he could feel certain the threat to his power was eliminated.

Today children continue to be expendable pawns in the power games of our leaders.