What is a 30-Day Secular Media Fast?

What if the noise of godless media is drowning out the voice of God? Not all media is bad... but maybe the distraction away from God is making harder to hear and see God at work.

This is a journey of a group of high school students who have committed to take 30 days to focus on God through God-centered media. This includes TV, movies, books, magazines, smart phone apps, and many social media outlets.

Here, you can follow their stories, their lives, and their challenges. Feel free to leave comments and encouragement.

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

halfway

Wow, half way already. This fast has been very good for me, and from what I can see, good for many of you too, whether you are a sponsor, a student, or someone else who happens to be reading Our Thirty blogs. 2 weeks down, 2 weeks to go. I am very excited for the rest of his media fast, as I have been growing a lot in my relationship with Christ in various ways. The removal of media from my life, is a great thing to give up as a teenager who, as many other teens, LOVES music and movies and my TV shows, as well as a lot of media in the world today. While media in and of itself is not always bad, it can be a temptation and become a sin, whether in the intention behind the media, or how much we use the media. I don't think we realize how much the church has been in the world and how much we love the things of the world until we have to give them up. I know for me its hard to give up my music and many other things. Also, we often don't realize just how fortunate we are to have these things right at our fingertips, our phones, TVs, computers, iPads etc, the list goes on and on. As teenagers being raised in a technologically advanced society, we are so spoiled, in a way, that we just expect to have secular media readily available to us, and we don't even think about until something like the media fast happens, and we find ourselves turning on the radio by habit, or sitting down to watch our favorite TV shows or posting something on instagram that we did with our friends. Even something as simple as snapchatting our friends, we don't realize how fortunate we are to be able to do that. So, thank you Media Fast, thank you Matt, and Student Life ministry team, for giving us this opportunity to be thankful for what we have, to grow in our relationships with God and the people around us, and to stop and think about how great our God is, and notice things in His creation, we might not have seen if we were stuck on our phones. I want to encourage you all to stand firm in this commitment and see it through to the end, it is very much worth it, and rewarding to you and others in the end. Hope you all have the best of luck through the rest of March, and I'm praying for you all! May God be with you and grant you peace. -Michaela Biggs

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