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A blog by Ken Horn

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TV to Avoid #5

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Commercials
Yes, advertisements have been on my TV to Avoid list for a long time … but for increasingly different reasons.
I have muted commercials for years. I don’t like the volume or the propaganda. If you think about all the time in your life you have sat in front of that box letting propagandists pour their […]

Souls Are More Important Than Appearances

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Assemblies of God Prayer Summit Report
Forgive me for diverting to an area that will be of most interest to preachers. Of course, those of you readers who are not preachers do listen to preaching, so you’ll be better off if the preachers you listen to take this advice from Jim Cymbala.
As a former pastor and […]

TV to Avoid: The Moment of Truth

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Seeing commercials for this program was nauseating enough. I couldn’t tolerate viewing the actual show.
Television is outdoing itself, exploiting gullible people, and destroying families and lives. That’s all that can happen with this show.
The wife of a New York City cop admitted, on Fox’s The Moment of Truth, that she cheated on him. Oh, […]

Enough Violence in Entertainment

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

We all know that violent movies and video games lead to real violence. But those who make money on violence—and they know it leads to violence—basically wink and say, “Yeah? Prove it.”
Of course, proving the connection is almost impossible, even though the connection is obvious.
Unfortunately, virtual violence recently turned to real violence when an online […]

TV to Avoid: A Surprising Entry

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Some of you may be surprised by my next entry in the list of television programs to avoid, because these are actually Christian programs. Yes, I believe there are Christian programs we are better off without.
Christian television programs that spend a large portion of their time asking for money: At best these are misguided; […]