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Did anyone else watch TV this weekend? Did anyone notice the plethora of shows that dealt with Christianity, God, Jerusalem, visions, etc…? I sure did. The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel were the worst. It appears to me that they are trying to cash in on the "spirituality" craze that appears to be sweeping the country. The problem with this is that they deal with things that so don't matter. They ran shows talking about what Jesus would have looked like, the grail, mystics, people who have seen visions of Mary, the road to Emmaus, etc…. Shows like this only make people question their faith and don't do anything substantial to further the Gospel.

Do I really expect secular TV to run The Jesus Video? No, although, it would be awesome if they would. This is why we as Christians need to know what we believe, why we beleive it, and what we stand on. So what if the apocrypha or Dead Sea scrolls says thing that contradict the Bible. They aren't the Bible. I don't believe them, I believe was the Bible was

 

…written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy….

 

— The Bpatist Faith and Message

 

My faith won't be shaken because something appears to contradict the Bible. My faith won't be shaken by someone who claims to have seen a vision of Mary. My faith is built upon the words of Almighty God! For those of you who may not understand, I mean the Bible.

This post has a bad link in it. The correct link to lifeway should be http://www.lifeway.com.

This post also has a bad link in it. The correct link to my contact page should be http://www.techs4jesus.com/contact.htm.

This post also has a bad link in it. The correct link to Technocrati should be http://www.technorati.com.

Sorry about not editing the posts directly. Blosxom by default uses the modify dates on the files to determine where to put the post in the blog. If I edit them after the fact, perma links will be all messed up, etc… I think there are some plugins out there that will fix that to use something from the filename, but I haven't had time to look into them yet.

I had some down-time today waiting on my computer, so I was doing a little surfing and working on my blog. I just put an RSS feed in my blog, so I downloaded an RSS reader plug-in for Firefox called Sage. In looking around at my RSS feed, I noticed links to this place called Technorati. Poking around there let me to PointMan’s Blog. This guy appears to have things together. Some of his articles I found interesting. Here is a sampling:

Here is an article about the crazyness in our countries moral compass:

Talk about a screwed up moral compass… Idiot. These big lobsters never survive once captured so he just threw $150 down the toilet. It would have done more good given to a shelter or mission.

Here is an article about guns in our country: 

Liberals booted God from the schools: no prayer, no Bible reading, no Ten Commandments, no teaching based upon the Bible. No speaking of Christ. After all, kids might really take those teachings to heart. They may decide not to lie, steal, fornicate, rape, and kill! They might honor and obey their parents, the law, and school officials. They might become kind, gracious, fair, honest, and principled! Heavens, we can’t have that can we? After all, we demand a secular society. Well, we have it and our schools have become Ignorance Factories, sex clinics, self-esteem laboratories, and sports clubs.

Hope you guys enjoy reading his blog as much as I did!

BTW, if you want to know what yak-shaving is, follow this link. Basically, it boils down to: 

You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you’re doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you’re supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you’re doing to the original meta-task.