Generations Radio

Sandwiched between Thanksgiving and Christmas, many families quietly slide from "season of gratitude" into "season of grumbling." In this episode, the dads discuss cultivating joy as a daily discipline grounded in the gospel—remembering what we deserve, what God has given, and how that perspective kills entitlement. They share practical ways to start young with your kids, model gratitude in marriage, affirm your children, and turn even hard providences into opportunities to see God's mighty works.

Can Christian parents faithfully obey Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6 while sending their children to schools where teachers are forbidden by law to honor God? In this hot-button episode, Kevin and Danny "take the gloves off" and revisit historic warnings about secular education, the sacred–secular divide, and the myth of neutral math and science. Is this the sin we dare not name in the American church?

When governments tighten the screws, should Christian families stay and fight, or pack up and look for a freer place to live? Modern homeschoolers feeling pressure from the state aren't the first to ask these questions. But neither the Word nor history is silent on this matter. Kevin and Josh discuss the examples of Rahab, the Hebrew midwives, and the pilgrims. The common theme: faith and obedience to Christ in the face of tyrannical authorities.

Every blockbuster story lives on a simple structure: hero vs. villain, good vs. evil. But what happens when writers deny any objective standard while still preaching their own "justice"? Kevin Swanson and Bill Jack dig into the occult's promise—"you shall be as God"—and how it surfaces in feminist theology, pop fantasy, and even science divorced from the fear of the Lord. Only by recovering God as the source of all power and all ethics can parents help their children discern which stories point to the Creator and which seduce them toward destruction.

Most Christians sense that something has gone deeply wrong with manhood in the modern world. Nancy Pearcey joins Kevin to trace how the Industrial Revolution fractured family life, displaced men from the household, and created generations of isolation, escapism, and identity-confusion. Drawing from The Toxic War on Masculinity, she explains how Christianity once formed strong men—faithful husbands, sacrificial fathers, producers not consumers—and how it can again. If the family once broke, it can also be rebuilt. Christ renews men, restores homes, and makes possible a future stronger than the past.

If your fathering feels more like a train wreck than a success story, this conversation is for you. The brothers list out the "usual suspects" of failed fatherhood—busy dad, greedy dad, angry dad, passive dad, distant dad, spiritually underdeveloped dad, proud dad—and then show how the Holy Spirit exposes the roots beneath them: self-love instead of love for God and family. With Philippians 3 and 1 John 3 in view, they urge discouraged fathers to lift their eyes from self-pity to Christ's finished work and the long-term, eternal perspective of what God is making them to be.

This Thanksgiving episode traces God's extraordinary providence through the story of Squanto and the early Pilgrims, showing how liberty flourished only where the family, church, and state remained in their God-given jurisdictions. Kevin Swanson and Bill Jack connect that legacy to today's battles over compulsory schooling, in loco parentis, and the growing claim of the state upon our children. The Pilgrims fought for a vision of liberty rooted in Scripture. And that same freedom requires vigilant defense today.

Is adoption for everyone, and what about "curses" from a child's background? In this episode, Kevin and Josh unpack how the Bible holds together mercy and judgment—Exodus 34, Ezekiel 18, and the "333 to 1" mercy ratio—showing that patterns of sin can be broken through faith and repentance. The goal isn't to scare Christians away from adoption, but to ground them in realistic love, ethical wisdom, and rock-solid confidence that God is a mighty Redeemer for the fatherless.

Roe falls, Obergefell stands—what does that say about America? In this episode, Kevin Swanson and Bill Jack walk through Justice Alito's recent appeal to stare decisis on same-sex "marriage," contrasting the Court's insistence on reciprocity for homosexual unions with its refusal to extend similar protections to pro-life laws. They trace how sexual autonomy has become the crown jewel of modern humanism, why opposition to homosexuality now draws more hostility than opposition to abortion, and how Republicans have largely abandoned God's law on both fronts. The conclusion is sobering: a nation that rejects God's standards and celebrates death—whether through kill-pill abortions or sterile unions—stands under His judgment. The only faithful response is to recover the fear of God in our homes and discipleship.

Most Christians feel intimidated by the thought of talking with a skeptical professor or hostile coworker. Greg Koukl joins the show and tells us why they don't have to be. Drawing from Tactics, Greg explains how the Columbo approach—"What do you mean by that?" and "How did you come to that conclusion?"—takes the pressure off, exposes fuzzy clichés, and helps unbelievers see the cracks in their own worldview. In the end, Paul plants, Apollos waters, and God gives the increase—but we still need a wise game plan for our part.