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Revive Our Hearts

The Truth About Media Use

Revive Our Hearts

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Parents used to pay attention to network TV and the radio, which gave them a pretty good grasp of their kids’ use of media—but so much has changed.

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0:00.0

A young woman reflects on the media being created for her generation.

0:05.0

I think that there is an artificial perception of love being given in those movies and in the books.

0:12.0

And I think it's just very deceiving because that's not how relationships are.

0:17.0

And love in the movies is always like physical or something emotional that really, you know,

0:23.4

pricks our girl hearts.

0:24.5

Like, oh, he sang a song.

0:27.3

Oh, he wrote a letter.

0:29.0

Oh, he came after her.

0:31.3

And that's not necessarily love.

0:34.7

This is the Revivar Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth, co-author of Lies Young Women Believe, for February 7, 2018.

0:47.3

This week, we're hearing from Nancy DeMoss-Waglmuth and Dana Gresh.

0:51.8

They just released the revised and updated version of the book

0:56.0

Lies Young Women Believe and the truth that sets them free. You know, it wasn't that long ago

1:02.2

that for a parent to get on top of a young person's media use meant, I need to restrict how

1:08.1

much television my child watches. Today, the media landscape changes faster than any of us can keep up with.

1:15.7

It's moved from the living room to the laptop to the phone or other internet-connected devices.

1:22.1

It would be easy to assume that today's young people are generally clueless about the values they're being fed in the

1:28.0

media. Not exactly, says Dana Grash. Well, the frightening thing is that they do see the danger,

1:34.9

but they're not convinced they need to do anything about it. One of our top lies in the area of

1:39.8

media was that the benefits of constant media use outweigh the harm.

1:45.0

And almost 100% of the girls, 98% of them, said, yes, I am making some media choices that clearly are not good for my spiritual life.

1:54.9

They affect my relationship with God.

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