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Series Code: DID
Program Code: DID210001S
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00:20 Welcome to Digital Disconnect. I'm your host Scott Ritsema
00:23 for this series of 13 programs 00:26 dealing with probably one of the most pressing issues there is 00:28 for us to talk about in this in this digital age, 00:31 and that is our media use. And I mean ALL of our media use. 00:34 We often talk about the kids these days 00:36 and, boy, they sure are struggling. 00:38 We'll talk a lot about child development and the family 00:41 dynamics and social issues, relational issues. 00:44 But every single one of us can ask: "Lord, speak into 00:47 my life how I can better glorify You with my media use. " 00:52 And I'm going to start with two slides here 00:55 right out of the gate that will give us that urgent sense 00:57 and need to pray 00:59 and open the series with prayer because when you hear 01:02 that it's not just that we LIKE our media... 01:04 Listen to this quotation in a moment. 01:06 I'm going to show it to you. I've gotta explain who the guy 01:09 is that's saying this. He works for the big Smartphone Co. 01:13 the ones that invented the Smartphones. 01:15 And he was in the neuromarketing department 01:19 so they were experts at looking at your brain 01:22 and how your brain functions when you're using their product. 01:24 And so what he said is: 01:54 Now just let that sink in for a second. 01:57 I like my iPhone. 01:59 A lot of people like their other devices by whatever name. 02:02 We like media; we like to use these things. 02:05 But I hope I don't pass over the line from like to love 02:10 like I'm in love with it like I love my wife 02:12 and love my children. You love your sister, 02:15 your mother... your pet, maybe. 02:17 Those are normal things! 02:19 This is the device - the piece of hardware - 02:21 and we are crossing over the line into a love relationship 02:24 with our iPhone. I mean you can just start with the fact 02:28 that that is strange and weird. 02:30 But maybe that's problematic on spiritual levels 02:33 and on relational levels that we're going to study 02:35 in this series. I have another quotation I want to show you 02:38 that will also give us an urgent need to begin with prayer. 02:40 It comes from George Barna. 02:42 Now he's one of the top researchers in the world 02:45 in terms of gathering infor- mation and understanding 02:47 the societal trends. And what he stated 02:50 straight out, this is several years ago, he said: 03:00 Now when I had the chance to speak with George Barna 03:03 about that and look at his research 03:05 he said: "Scott, you realize it's actually the majority 03:07 of Americans that qualify for an addiction 03:11 when you use the same diagnostic criteria 03:13 that they use in psychiatry circles 03:15 to figure out if somebody is addicted to alcohol or whatever. 03:19 You use those same questions and criteria 03:22 on our media and the majority of us would qualify 03:26 for an addiction to media. " 03:28 So as we begin many people might think 03:31 "Oh, I don't have a problem with media. 03:33 This is a good seminar for those other people. " 03:36 But maybe this will reach us in our problem areas 03:39 where we might be falling in love with our media 03:42 and/or addicted to our media... 03:44 because at that point I'm not going to be objective 03:47 and honest and fair about evaluating 03:49 my own media use. I have to ask for divine insight. 03:52 That's what we're going to do right now. 03:54 Would you bow your heads with me and pray this prayer 03:56 in your heart? Father in heaven, 03:59 we want to ask for Your Spirit to speak to us. 04:02 We don't want our own opinions, our own preferences 04:05 to rule but we want Your will to be made known 04:08 and to be done. "Thy will be done" is our prayer. 04:11 So please give us courage to face where we could make 04:14 some changes and find greater joy in You 04:17 by doing so. And our hearts of course go out to the children, 04:21 to the young people who are so steeped in 04:23 and immersed in and addicted to so much worldly media. 04:27 And Lord, as we expose and understand the nature of 04:31 that controversy for the souls of men 04:33 give us discernment we pray. 04:35 In Jesus' name, Amen. 04:38 I want to begin with a question. 04:40 Now I used to teach history. 04:42 I used to be a teacher, so I'm going to make you think 04:45 a little bit here, OK? 04:46 The question is: when in history 04:49 was the invention of the first telecommunications 04:54 device? The first electronic media device? 04:58 So you're thinking back. Maybe this is television? 05:01 No, before that there was radio. 05:02 Maybe some of you watching this remember when the TV 05:06 was invented. My grandpa actually was a salesman 05:09 for Zenith televisions. I find that terribly ironic 05:12 because here I do seminars on media at churches 05:16 and on satellite networks and on the Internet 05:18 exposing the harmful effects of worldly media 05:23 and excessive media and it's in my family tree. 05:26 But maybe you think back before grandpa the Zenith salesman. 05:31 And God bless him by the way. I praise God for televisions 05:33 that we can use to watch 3ABN... 05:35 that we can use to watch good things on. 05:37 But these screens can be used to God's glory 'cause 05:40 when you go back and see... When was the first one? 05:43 Not radio; not the silver screen; 05:45 not the phonograph. Go back further. 05:48 We're looking at 19th century. 05:50 When in the 19th century was the world's first media device 05:55 invented? The year was 1844. 05:59 You're thinking: "There was no media in 1844! 06:01 Electronic media? What are you talking about? " 06:03 Look at this image. This is Samuel Morse 06:07 tapping away the world's first text message. 06:12 The telegraph is what we're looking at there. 06:14 And you know what the message was? 06:16 The message was: 06:23 Can media be used by God to the glory of God 06:27 to spread the message of hope and salvation to the world? 06:30 Amen! That's what we're doing right now! 06:32 But 1844 is a pivotal year in prophetic history. 06:37 Those who study Daniel chapter 8 06:39 verse 14 actually refers to a prophetic time period 06:42 that you can chart. When studying Daniel 9 06:45 as the beginning point it ends in 1844. 06:49 And so this is the last days that we are in. 06:52 1844... the beginning of the Investigative Judgment, 06:55 the heavenly sanctuary cleansing. 06:57 That's something to study if you've never studied into that. 07:00 So if 1844 ushers in the last days 07:03 we have to ask: "Lord, what are You doing 07:06 through us and in us 07:08 during this urgent time in earth's history? 07:10 And how does the devil feel about that 'cause 07:12 he's running around like a devouring lion 07:14 and seeking whom he may deceive 07:16 and bring down into the pit of darkness? " 07:19 Well, that's exactly what media is doing today, isn't it? 07:22 Worldly media. Excessive quantities of media. 07:25 Media addiction. And so when we think about 07:29 a media seminar it's not so much a question of 07:32 is media bad or is media good. 07:35 Media can be used for either. 07:37 This is not even a seminar about media really. 07:40 This series of programs is about relationships 07:43 with Jesus, with each other, 07:45 with our families, with our churches, 07:48 with reaching the lost. 07:50 You see, when you think about digital disconnect 07:53 it's a great concept because it has two meanings. 07:57 The digital media has disconnect us from one another 08:01 in many ways: a divide in the home; 08:04 generation gaps; disconnect between us and our Savior 08:08 if we are compromising in our media use 08:10 and consuming that which is of the world. 08:12 But at the same time if we are willing 08:15 to disconnect from it 08:18 then the digital disconnect if you will can bring great joy. 08:22 The disconnect from SO MUCH media can bring us 08:25 into a better experience of how to be human again. 08:28 That's the name of this particular session. 08:31 That got me thinking when I was looking at these clips online... 08:34 Have you seen them? where somebody's on their device 08:37 and they fall down the stairs. One that really got my attention 08:40 you can see this video actually in the series that we put out 08:44 in our ministry - Belt of Truth Ministries - 08:46 put out a series called The Media Mind. 08:49 And in that one there is a guy walking down the street 08:53 with his phone. And he's in this alley 08:56 and ahead of him you're watching he's approaching a manhole 09:00 with ribbons around it... it's plainly marked. 09:03 He walks right through the barriers and falls down 09:05 right into the hole. And I go: "Wow! 09:07 We've got an issue when these sorts of things are happening! " 09:10 Not just that but you have pedestrian 09:14 traffic incidents happening. 09:16 Car & Driver Magazine headline: HUGE RISE IN PEDESTRIAN 09:20 TRAFFIC INCIDENTS. 09:22 And in general, cell phone-related injuries... 09:25 Have you ever heard of cellphone-related injuries? 09:27 I haven't, but when I heard this for the first time 09:32 I thought: "OK, we're in a new place then 09:34 when there's such a thing as that. " 09:35 They're up 84% at one point 09:37 and people are walking into on-coming traffic. 09:40 So we're going to have to start re-orienting how we do 09:43 human society, aren't we? 09:44 What they did was... You're going to see a graphic of a 09:47 crosswalk where instead of people looking at the stop 09:51 and go signs up at eye level 09:53 which is where we have lived for thousands of years 09:55 looking up and around us. 09:57 We're on our devices looking down 09:59 and so many people are walking into on-coming traffic 10:01 where a bus is coming you have to have the signals 10:04 there at foot level... at ground level. 10:06 That got my attention definitely as I was thinking: 10:08 "How did God design for us to be human? " 10:10 How about the media mind of this age has become 10:14 disconnected from the people around us? From the objects 10:17 around us? From the hole? From the traffic? 10:19 From the lamp post? Here's another graphic that got 10:22 my attention. In Austria they had to put pads 10:25 on the lamp posts 'cause people were waking into them. 10:27 In America they actually had a federal grant at one point 10:30 to study how can we get alerts on people's phones 10:35 to tell them when they are approaching the curb 10:37 so that we can reduce the traffic incidents 10:40 of people walking? And so I can't 10:43 tell when I'm approaching the street? 10:46 How to be human again indeed! We need to re-discover 10:48 how to walk and not walk into on-coming traffic. 10:51 Another thing about how to be human again 10:54 that got my attention was the concept of kyphosis. 10:57 People are on their devices and they're hunched over. 10:59 When we're at a 45 degree angle 11:02 there's 49 pounds of pressure that's being applied 11:06 on the upper spine there. 11:08 And that's actually re-shaping the muscles 11:11 into a permanent forward-head posture. 11:14 They call it hyper kyphosis. 11:16 And they're saying this is happening with young people too 11:18 not just the elderly. Normally as we age 11:22 you know we come down. 11:23 But another thing with young people is this one 11:26 that you'll see a graphic of. A Washington Post 11:28 article with the scan there - the x-ray - of a little bony 11:32 protrusion. And it says: "Horns are growing on 11:35 young people's skulls. Phone use is to blame, 11:37 research suggests. " 11:39 And then this one: the potty with a tablet on it. 11:44 And you're like: "What is that? 11:45 A digital potty? I didn't know there was such a thing! " 11:47 Well, yeah... kids can't learn to use the potty 11:50 with a normal potty any more because everything has to be 11:53 "gameified. " Everything has to be "incentivized" 11:56 and done on a digital screen. 11:58 What is this world coming to? 12:00 Well, we've been told we've achieved some level of 12:04 social connectedness because everybody can be on social 12:07 media. We can all be online together 12:09 and it's a great social boon of relational connectedness. 12:13 We're the most socially connected generation in history 12:16 we've been told. But then when I understand 12:19 that we are the most lonely generation in history... 12:21 When you look at the Surgeon General of the US 12:24 come out and say: "We have an epidemic of loneliness. " 12:27 In Japan they just appointed a Minister of Loneliness 12:30 meaning like a secretary, a cabinet-level office 12:33 in their government. 12:35 And this one really was strange to me. 12:37 When I learned about the "cuddling with strangers" 12:40 craze... Did you ever hear about that? 12:42 That was definitely pre-COVID. But people were going out 12:44 because they're so lonely they just want to hug 12:46 that they go out and hook up with strangers 12:48 at a "Cuddling Cafe" or hire a professional 12:51 cuddler to come to their house and snuggle with them 12:53 and give them a hug. How sad! 12:55 By the way, if you know people in your area 12:58 who have not had a visit, who have not had the love 13:00 of Jesus Christ and the arms of Him reaching out, 13:03 reach out right now. We are the body of Christ, 13:06 the hands and feet of Christ, 13:07 to solve this crisis of loneliness 13:09 that social media is not solving... it's causing it. 13:12 And if you're feeling lonely right now 13:14 know that Jesus is right there with you. 13:17 And praise God we can have this tool of media right now 13:20 to come together in a way that we wouldn't have been able 13:23 to do prior to 1844 and the invention of the telegraph. 13:27 So we're going to keep using these devices to God's glory. 13:30 But have you noticed? Our society sure is crumbling 13:34 in so many ways. For those who are "weirded out" 13:37 by the Cuddling with Strangers craze by the way 13:39 there is the chair that will hug you back. 13:41 Yes, look at that graphic. 13:43 You can't believe that's a real thing till you see it 13:45 in USA Today. Some inventor in So. Korea said: 13:48 "People are so lonely we'd better make chairs 13:50 that hug them. " Yikes! So what is the solution 13:54 to this? Well... God always has a solution. 13:58 Sometimes just seeing what the problem is 14:00 you identify the solution. 14:02 You know that social media is increasing loneliness 14:04 'cause all the studies are showing it. 14:06 Well they did a couple of studies where they said: 14:08 "Well let's just take people off social media for one week. " 14:11 One of them was at the University of Pennsylvania. 14:14 Another one was a Denmark study. 14:16 And in one of the cases they brought social media use 14:19 down to 30 minutes per day. 14:20 And in the other one it was a social media fast. 14:24 And what were the results? 14:26 Well, you'll find it not surprising 14:29 that after one week of no social media use 14:32 loneliness scores dropped significantly 14:36 in young adults who were studied in these studies. 14:40 One week of no social media or very limited social media 14:43 use reduces your loneliness. 14:45 Oh, we're going to get more into that when we look at 14:47 the session called Anti-Social Media because 14:50 really you can't necessarily call it social media 14:53 when it's increasing loneliness. 14:54 It is anti social media if it is increasing our loneliness. 14:58 So the media mind if you will 15:01 is becoming more lonely but the mind of Christ 15:04 fulfilled. You see that's the solution 15:07 Jesus wants to bring to us: 15:09 the fulling experience of relational connectedness 15:13 when you disconnect some from your digital immersion. 15:17 Again, they are tools. Utilize them, but don't be 15:21 used by them. When we have a commitment 15:24 to make a digital disconnect of some kind 15:26 we find relational connected- ness starts to take over. 15:30 Our experience with Jesus and with each other. 15:32 We'll look at that in the ses- sion called Anti-Social Media. 15:35 But again, this session is called How to be Human Again. 15:38 Did you know that the average American touches, taps, and 15:41 swipes their device 2,617 times per day? 15:47 Two thousand six hundred and seventeen times per day! 15:50 You multiply that by 365 days in the year 15:53 and you get almost a million touches, taps, and swipes 15:57 of these devices. It's almost as if that's the world we live in 16:01 now... the virtual world. 16:03 A counterfeit reality. 16:04 You know, I was thinking about when I was looking at that 16:07 those numbers I was like: "How many times am I touching, 16:09 tapping, and swiping? " We're all re-evaluating. 16:12 OK, am I using too much media? 16:14 I mean, it's not worldly; I'm using it as a tool 16:16 but maybe there's a quantity that I've reached 16:19 peak media use and it's going to become problematic 16:21 for my joy and relationships and everything. 16:24 2,617 times of these... 16:29 how many times did I touch my children today? 16:32 How many times? Even just a pat or wood and nails 16:36 or soil and plants or cooking and real 16:39 physical non-virtual things? 16:41 Are we touching those a million times a year? 16:45 I don't have any data on that. 16:46 You're going to hear a lot of information in this series. 16:48 Hopefully, it's information that prompts us to think 16:51 and re-think our media use. 16:53 And it comes with a transfor- mation of the Holy Spirit 16:56 because when we look at the latest numbers 16:58 they are absolutely catastrophic. 17:00 Our society is crumbling under media addiction. 17:03 Take a look at these stats. 17:11 Parents aren't far behind with 8 hours per day 17:14 so we can't judge too harshly there, can we? 17:35 up to 150 times per day in some studies... 17:42 You're just thinking: "How are these numbers even possible? " 17:46 It's coming to the point where 17:48 keeping track of the numbers is an irrelevant exercise 17:52 because 45% of teens when asked: 17:56 "How much are you on your phone during the day? " 18:00 the answer they give is: "Almost constantly 18:04 on our devices. " 18:06 Now I want to warn us against something. 18:07 It's really easy to look at what the culture is doing 18:09 out there and feel comfortable because I'm not nearly that 18:12 crazy with my media overuse. 18:15 But the Bible gives us a warning. 18:17 It says: "They that compare themselves 18:19 among themselves are not wise. " 18:22 So we don't want to measure ourself by the standard 18:24 of the world. We don't want to be conformed 18:26 to the world. We want to be transformed by the renewing 18:29 of our mind according to the standard and plan 18:32 that God has for us. 18:34 II Corinthians 10:12 gives us some good wisdom 18:37 not be comparing ourselves among ourselves. 18:39 I saved one more statistic for last here in this section on... 18:43 on some data because this one was, whoa! ominous: 18:48 the number of minutes of media per day 18:50 for the average American. A few years ago 18:53 it came out with Nielsen Media 18:56 to exactly 666 minutes of media per day. 18:59 Now I'm not suggesting that is the fulfillment of 19:02 Bible prophecy, BUT when you see in Rev. 13 19:05 an ominous number of the beast - 666 19:08 and then you look at "That's the exact number of 19:11 minutes of media use that the average American was consuming 19:13 during that year" that is a very large number as well... 19:17 not just an ominous prophetic and dark-sounding number. 19:21 But we also want to become think- ers. And what I mean by that 19:24 is we know deception is coming in the last days. 19:28 And when we are looking at the amount of media we are consuming 19:31 per day... Somebody sent me an article 19:34 from a mainstream news outlet 19:36 that said: "Kids today aren't spending any more time 19:40 with media now than they were in the 1980's. " 19:44 And you're scratching your head going: "That's not correct. " 19:47 That was stated in a mainstream news article 19:49 and people just are fed with propaganda 19:51 and passively receive whatever is promulgated 19:55 through these supposed "credible" outlets. 19:57 Kids today are not spending any more time 20:00 with media than they were in the '80's? 20:02 Well, what is the actual data on that? 20:05 Jean Twenge at San Diego State University 20:07 has looked at that in great detail 20:09 and she's the one that gave us that 9 hours per day 20:11 in 2016, so that's a number of years ago. 20:15 I don't know what it is now, but in the 1980's 20:17 it was 3.5 hours per day. 20:20 So we've almost tripled since the '80's. 20:22 So I think we can sum that up with 20:25 the media mind becomes deceivable 20:28 but the mind of Christ will be critically thinking. 20:31 We must be thinkers not mere reflectors 20:35 of other men's thoughts. And I include myself in that. 20:37 Whenever I was a classroom teacher, 20:38 whenever I go to churches to do these seminars 20:41 and I'm speaking on Media on the Brain 20:44 I'm always challenging listeners to this seminar 20:47 to take this information to God for yourself 20:49 and seek truth and think and make decisions 20:53 that God is leading you to make. 20:54 Not being a mere reflector of other men's thoughts: 20:58 that's a very important principle in the last days 21:01 when deception is coming. 21:02 But really the bottom line is if we're going to make 21:05 our lives what God wants them to make 21:07 we have to have standards... we have to have rules 21:10 in our media use. And that might not sound like 21:12 something we want to do. Like: "Oh, I don't want 21:14 rules! Is that legalism? " 21:16 We've gotta make our own expectations for our children 21:20 and for ourselves frankly 21:22 in terms of a bunch of questions. 21:24 Let me put a few questions up on the screen for you 21:26 and you'll see the kinds of things we're going to be asking 21:29 ourselves through this series. 21:55 If we can tackle those questions 21:58 and if we can say: "All right, I'm going to have 22:00 my own standards and rules that God is leading me on" 22:04 And by the way, I can tell you when it comes to 22:06 what kinds of media - 22:08 that first question you saw on there - 22:09 if we're discussing worldly media, 22:12 something that has principles of this world, 22:15 of Satan's kingdom not of the kingdom of God, 22:18 then how many hours should we be consuming of that per day? 22:22 And at what times of the day? And for what duration of use? 22:25 and so on. Well, the Bible is clear. 22:27 It says: "Come apart and be separate 22:30 saith the Lord. Touch no unclean thing 22:33 and I will receive you. " 22:35 NO UNCLEAN THING. Zero hours of worldly media. 22:39 And we're going to touch on that later, 22:41 but a lot of these opening ses- sions that we're doing together 22:44 will be dealing with digital devices that we find as tools 22:49 but still we can get out of control with. 22:51 So every person listening will take these ideas 22:54 and these thoughts and this information 22:56 take it to God with an open heart and an open Bible. 22:59 And my goal is to prompt us to think. 23:01 And when I receive thousands - literally - of e-mails 23:04 and contacts and talking to people at churches 23:07 and at conferences and they say: "I made changes 23:10 in my media use and saw positive results 23:14 spiritually and in every way. " 23:17 It's kind of like: "Well, you thought you were OK 23:20 before you made the changes. " "I don't need to make any 23:22 dietary changes. " Or: "The way I live my life is good. 23:25 I'm comfortable. I don't need to make changes in my media use" 23:29 says the average person. 23:31 Like the average person would go into my father's 23:33 optometry office, OK? My dad was an optometrist. 23:37 And he would have people come in and say: "Oh, I don't need... 23:39 I don't need glasses. I can see just fine. 23:42 I don't have any problems with my eyesight. " 23:45 And my dad, the doctor, would say to them: 23:47 "Are you seeing blurry? Are you sure everything's good? 23:50 Well let's go ahead and give you a little test here. " 23:53 And down come the instruments over the eyes, right? 23:55 The moment of truth. "Read that top line here. " 23:59 "OK yeah... that's A M V W R. " 24:02 "Read that second line please. " 24:05 "Wait a minute... the second line? " 24:07 "I'm supposed to be able to read that? " 24:09 "What is that? Is that a C or a G or an O 24:12 or a Q? I don't know. I can't read the second line, 24:15 doc. " And then he does the whole drill of 24:19 "Which one is clearer: 1 or 2? " 24:22 "Two. " "Two or three? " 24:26 "Umm... two. " 24:27 "Two or four? " "Two's still the clearest there, 24:31 doc. " And he breaks it to you: 24:33 "You thought you were seeing OK but you can see even better 24:37 when you have a prescription and you try something. " 24:40 You see the analogy here with our media use? 24:44 We try something different 24:46 like those people did in that study in Denmark. 24:49 University of Pennsylvania studies. Let's just take away 24:51 social media for a week or reduce it to 30 minutes a day. 24:55 Oh! All of a sudden you notice a difference. 24:58 You ask those people beforehand: "Oh, I'm fine. 25:00 I'm fine. " Right? We all are fine. 25:02 But God wants to prompt us to try something different. 25:06 He says: "Test Me in these things and see if I don't open 25:09 the floodgates of blessing upon you. " 25:11 He says: "Taste and see that the Lord is good. " 25:13 "You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me 25:15 with all your heart. " 25:17 So that's the quest we are on. 25:19 This is not a seminar about media as much as it is 25:21 a seminar about our relationship with Jesus Christ 25:24 and our relationships with each other and the family unit 25:27 that God is so interested in restoring in the last days. 25:31 Now as I was listening to the information about eyesight 25:35 and media use, you know, you do a lot of near work, 25:38 you have a lot of screen time it increases the risk of myopia 25:41 and nearsightedness. You know, my dad's voice 25:44 echoed in my brain: "Scott, you're going to be 25:46 in your 40's and you're going to need glasses. " 25:50 I've been holding out. I'm even eating a lot of carrots 25:52 and a lot of vegetables and beta-carotene. 25:55 I'm going to try to eat healthy and have a good 25:58 "ocular hygiene" my dad calls it. 26:01 You know, blink a lot when you're doing screen work 26:04 and take your eyes off the screen every once in a while 26:06 and reset. So I'm going to try to not 26:10 have the same problems that people have had 26:13 because of media use. Well... I realize 26:17 that when that happens 26:19 I'm doing something to my brain, to the melatonin in my brain, 26:23 when I'm looking at media at night. 26:26 Now think about this, OK? 26:28 When the sun sets it's a certain type of light 26:31 that is communicating to our brains 26:34 "time to go to sleep. " Melatonin is produced in 26:36 the brain. And when it's morning and daytime 26:40 it's bright lights. Well... 26:41 our digital media simulates the bright light. 26:44 And so as you look at the graphic here 26:46 you'll see the kid with the phone right before bed 26:49 versus the old hearthside and the candlelight and that feeling 26:53 of really going to sleep with peace. 26:57 The Bible says: "God giveth His beloved sleep. " 27:00 That's in Psalm 127. 27:02 "Thou shalt lie down and thy sleep shall be sweet. " 27:05 And so God wants us to have energy the next day. 27:08 You know, when children use devices before bed 27:11 they're 2 times more likely to be sleepy the next day. 27:14 Just 15 minutes can do it... especially video games 27:17 'cause they increase cortisol release. 27:19 They increase stress hormones. Even social media can do that. 27:23 Teens are way sleep deprived. 27:25 They should be getting nine hours per night. 27:27 They're getting less than 7. 27:29 Adults too. 87% of us go to bed with 27:32 and wake up with our devices 27:34 and these things take their toll on our sleep. 27:37 I want to have a... the mind of Christ becomes 27:40 energized but the media mind tired. 27:44 That's the bottom line there. 27:45 But God has a better plan for us, doesn't He? 27:49 In ALL the aspects that we're discussing here. 27:51 And so He wants to bring joy to our lives, 27:54 restoration to our relationships, 27:56 and ultimately inspiration that we can overcome 28:00 whatever besetting addictions, habits are getting us down. 28:04 Seek Him with all your heart and He will be found by you. |
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