The TektonTV Thread

[Raphael]

It gets sadder. One of these days I may do a vid on this sort of random spouting. While looking for a bluegrass version of "What a Friend We have in Jesus" I could borrow without copyright issues, I found one of these types had left a comment just like that on the vid of one of the performances of the hymn. It had nothing to do with anything about the performance. It was just a yell across the hall, electronic graffiti, whatever you want to call it.

Clearly the FAs look upon YT as a place for them to scribble on the walls. Makes me all the happier to moderate them.

Which is exactly why it is even more important to teach practical apologetics to kids from the get go.

When I was in High School (I only matriculated 14 years ago), we maybe tossed around a few ideas. Most would only really encounter skeptical arguments in Uni.

Since then YouTube has exploded onto the scene. Now you have kids iin their early teens watching you tube clips of their favourite Christian songs, and immediately in the comments you have the FA's sprouting their nonsense in the comments.

Unless these kids are taught about Apologetics, that there are answers to the nonsense the FA's spew forth and that faith really is (to quote Spurgeon Faith is knowledge, belief, and trust. ie. We have to have knowledge about the things of God. We have to believe them to be true and we have to trust on it.), they will end up no better than the FA's.

[fm93]

Of the people whom I know in "real life" (aka from personal face-to-face interactions, not just from Tweb or YouTube), some have read Mere Christianity and a few have heard of (though not read) Strobel's Case for Christ.

That's it. That's actually the best apologetics stuff that they're aware of.


Also, from my observations of the books that they're reading, these seem to be the most popular:
Left Behind
The Shack
Blue Like Jazz

[Chaotic Void]

Which is exactly why it is even more important to teach practical apologetics to kids from the get go.

When I was in High School (I only matriculated 14 years ago), we maybe tossed around a few ideas. Most would only really encounter skeptical arguments in Uni.

Since then YouTube has exploded onto the scene. Now you have kids iin their early teens watching you tube clips of their favourite Christian songs, and immediately in the comments you have the FA's sprouting their nonsense in the comments.

Unless these kids are taught about Apologetics, that there are answers to the nonsense the FA's spew forth and that faith really is (to quote Spurgeon Faith is knowledge, belief, and trust. ie. We have to have knowledge about the things of God. We have to believe them to be true and we have to trust on it.), they will end up no better than the FA's.

Part of the problem is that they think sending their kids to Bible College for a year is supposed to work... Only problem is, these days most of the kids are long gone before they even graduate high school.

[Hamster]

My favorite apologetics is Prayer of Jabez

[KingsGambit]

My favorite apologetics is Prayer of Jabez

Meh, I prefer Jack Chick.

[nightbringer]

"Building people for kingdom purpose... Tekton!"

[Manwë Súlimo]

When I start my ministry I'm just going to flip randomly through a Strong's concordance and choose a greek word that sounds cool

NAME: Deus Ex Ministries
MOTTO: "Fundy Atheists? I never asked for this."

[Raphael]

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[jpholding]

Enacted parable of my encounter with DarkMatter2525 and his refusal to take my religious knowledge test.

[Cerebrum123]

Enacted parable of my encounter with DarkMatter2525 and his refusal to take my religious knowledge test.

Did you happen to get the idea for his character from this episode of Star Trek Next Generation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrk8wZNdzZE ?

[jpholding]

Did you happen to get the idea for his character from this episode of Star Trek Next Generation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrk8wZNdzZE ?

It occurred to me yesterday that some people might think of that. Which is fine by me. But no, it was really just based on his username, and the fact that he seems so....gelatinous, shall we say?

[Cerebrum123]

It occurred to me yesterday that some people might think of that. Which is fine by me. But no, it was really just based on his username, and the fact that he seems so....gelatinous, shall we say?

I mostly asked because of some of your other vids. Would have been kind of funny if you had said yes though.

[jpholding]

Hacking? Doesn't slow me down. Here's a short one on Colossians 2:8.



(It's still processing as I type this. Must be a lot of traffic at YT.)

[nightbringer]

JP (or anyone else), do you know a good, social-science savvy commentary on Song of Songs?

[shinydarkrai94]

I'm looking for some good Song of Songs commentaries as well. I'm looking into Jerome Walsh's and Lyle Eslinger's interpretation of Song of Songs 5:5.