If you visited "The Chosen" blog page on the first day of this site, you saw a bit of a devotional from The Chosen's "40 Days With Jesus" First Devotional Book. Here is a link, in case you missed it.. The Chosen Season 3 - Entertainment Good For The Soul (weebly.com) About eleven years ago, I was raising three kids and not working outside the home... and while I didn't really watch a lot of network TV at the time (kids always had control of the remote in the evening) I had fallen in love with the TV show Survivor. Something about the game fascinated me. The challenges. The strategy involved. Who chooses to align with who? If you know the show, you get this. While I know a lot of RTV's are more scripted than they want to admit, I have never believed that about Survivor. I had stumbled into an EW recap after watching an episode and there found a home among a bunch of Survivor fans. A few have become quite good online friends. The fun of analyzing the gameplay of this show with people as intensely as fanatic about it as I was proved to be great fun. Things happened over the years, and I ended up creating a free Disqus channel back when they had those for the purpose of having a "separate from the recaps" space to chat Survivor with a few people as fanatic about it as I was. I won't go into what led to that today but what began as a nice, friendly place to chat Survivor turned into a place to chat through episodes of many different shows. I don't participate in all that happens there; but it has given people a free space to enjoy this kind of online interaction with folks who enjoy the fun of a good TV Show chat. I was becoming an unapologetic TV Fanatic and was blind to any reason why there would be anything wrong with that. And for the record, I do not regret any of it for one second. The RTV Site has been great fun and I feel strongly connected to the small group of people who play along there and have been dedicated to the site. But a couple of years ago, my heart started turning a different direction. I started seeing things, troubling things, in the content of the shows I was choosing. Some I could overlook; some I just couldn't. That set me on a search to find somewhere in the world of visual entertainment that would be uplifting and positive and not cause me to feel like I was compromising my morals and maybe even my very soul to watch. Enter, The Chosen. I had never seen anything like this show. Completely produced and funded outside of the Hollywood establishment, this series was the first of its kind. A crowd source funded Series event to tell the story of Jesus through the eyes of his disciples. To me, it was life changing. This verse opens the second chapter of the "40 Days with Jesus" Season 1 Devotional and focuses on Mary Magdelene and the fact that when Jesus delivered her from her demons, she became completely devoted to him. She followed him everywhere during his three years of ministry, she was loyal to him. And she was faithful to him. She was there at the foot of the cross when he was crucified. And she was the first one he appeared to after he had risen allowing her to be the one to spread this good news. We should all strive to be as devoted to Jesus, our deliverer, as Mary Magdelene was.
I suppose we all have things in our lives we need to be delivered from in order to draw closer to Jesus in our walk and He surely will deliver us when we ask with true repentance in our hearts. For me, perhaps this TV addiction is the main thing. But there was a point when I started looking into those ministries and/or faith and family friendly TV sources to find a more positive and uplifting message in media. And then once finding some good sources, I started praying about ways to use this information. The idea for this site came from a desire to support and draw attention to those who have gone up against big Media to bring a more positive message to the industry. Streaming sites like Pureflix, not terribly expensive and full of faith-based content. This is where you would find the Kevin Sorbo produced movies. You know, formerly known as Hercules back in the 80's, who was blacklisted from Hollywood for his faith and chose to start his own movie studio to fight back producing such popular movies as the "God's Not Dead" series, for example. Also, if you have kids, you can find every single Veggie Tale video on this platform. Just a couple of examples but they also have been doing some original shows, a couple of which I have watched. Will do a writeup on the "Pureflix" blog to highlight those soon. The TV Channel UPTV with its corresponding Streaming site UpFaith and Family, is another source of fun for sweet Romance and Christmas movies and they have a pretty large catalogue on their streaming site. This is where my current "Heartland" binge is happening. The Great American Family and Living Channels and it's soon to be Streaming App which will launch on September 26th called The Great American Community and will feature original shows from some of its most popular actors. Looking forward to checking this one out. They also have been producing some wonderful original movies and will launch their Christmas season soon. More on that on their corresponding blog soon. And Hallmark, while it is not without its controversy these days, still has some pretty good content. It is still the home of the wonderful series based on the Jeanette Oke series of books, "When Calls the Heart", for example. And, of course their Christmas Season movies can usually provide a person with as much sappy romance as their heart's desires. And I love them. Most of the time. And back to The Chosen, they actually have their own app too called "Angel Studios" that can be downloaded on streaming devices such as Fire TV and Roku and not only houses ALL content from The Chosen, but also has other of their crowd source funded content as well. So, there you have it; how I became to feel that a site to promote and support faith based and family friendly content was necessary. I want this to be a safe place for faith conversation but also a fun place for Faith and Family TV Chats. Not sure how it will all look moving forward but as soon as we get a bit of a following, we will figure it out. If you are a person like me who enjoys TV and movies but wants to be uplifted and encouraged, I hope this site can offer you some good information. And some great chats as we grow a little. Of course, the RTV site still exists and I'm sure I will continue to manage it and to obsess over Survivor and The Amazing Race, to name a couple of my favorites. But I felt that if I wanted to focus on THIS kind of TV Show content, I needed a separate outlet to do so. Have a great day! Catlover04
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