The Caffeinated Thoughts Podcast

This week on Caffeinated Thoughts Radio Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers spoke with frequent guest and keynote speaker at the upcoming Caffeinated Thoughts Briefing Dr. E. Calvin Beisner from the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. The guys discuss with Beisner the question of how we address a Christian worldview with a world that is so hostile to it?

In the second segment Evan McMullin, an independent presidential candidate on the ballot in Iowa, calls in to discuss his candidacy, why he is running, and why he is better qualified to be President of the United States than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

In the third segment Brian has just a few things to say about Dr. Tony Campolo’s declaration that he no longer wants to be called an evangelical.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

This week on Caffeinated Thoughts Radio we discuss Hillary Clinton’s health concerns. Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers discuss this with Jane Orient, M.D., the executive director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. Her group recently conducted an informal poll of their member physicians that found 71% of them said her health concerns are serious.

In the second segment the guys discuss the presidential race with Dr. Kedron Bardwell who chairs the political science department at Simpson College. We discussed new polls of Iowa voters in the presidential race, Iowa’s U.S. Senate race, and the Iowa 3rd Congressional race that Simpson College conducted with RABA Research and released this week.

Plus David French discovers that Millennials may not be so bad after all. Also rumors that Donald Trump may appoint openly homosexual PayPal founder Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court if elected. Hillary Clinton refuses to talk about Colin Powell’s leaked emails… We wonder why?

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers this week on Caffeinated Thoughts Radio discussed the Commander-in-Chief Forum that NBC hosted. Matt Lauer moderated the forum and asked national security questions of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Then Tim Overlin, the executive director of Personhood Iowa, visited us in studio to discuss the movie Voiceless. Overlin’s group and 14 other organizations are bringing the movie to ten Iowa communities. They will hold private screenings on Saturday, October 8. The guys also discussed with Overlin the state of the pro-life movement in Iowa.

Matt Lauer takes heat over actually practicing journalism. Plus apparently, according to her supporters, Hillary Clinton still needs to show us her soul. Does not knowing Aleppo disqualify one from being President?

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

This week on Caffeinated Thoughts Radio while Brian Myers is out Shane Vander Hart speaks with Beth Lamb, state director of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Iowa. They discuss CEF’s Good News Clubs program that meets in local schools across the state.

Shane and producer Ron Carlson discuss a list produced by First Liberty Institute that outline religious liberty facts that students and teachers should know as the school year starts. Also, Shane highlights this year’s upcoming See You At The Pole that is scheduled to take place on September 28 at 7:00a.

Plus, the Obama Administration plans to give control of the internet over to an international non-profit organization – ICANN on September 30. The guys discuss why this is a problem.

Then are you a “Good Parent” or a “Get Real Parent”? An article in The Atlantic, not exactly a conservative bastion of thought, embraces common sense when it comes to binge drinking.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

We have a lot of problems in our nation at present, and I hear a lot of Christians place the blame for this on the church for its failure to be salt and light to the culture. Now, I don’t dispute that the church has a lot of problems, but if you are going to blame it for our current troubles you need to go back a century. Liberalism swallowed up virtually every mainline Christian denomination in the 1920s. The cardinal doctrines of the faith such as the deity of Christ and the virgin birth were cast aside. It took a few generations for this apostasy to wreck the spiritual foundation of the culture, but eventually the destruction was complete. We now live in a post-Christian culture, and the present Evangelical church, for all of its problems, isn’t primarily to blame. That ship sailed a long time ago.

This is Brian Myers of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio with your Caffeinated Thought of the Day.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

Immigration and multiculturalism are two of the most hotly debated subjects of our day. We are frequently told that there is “strength in diversity”, and we are also frequently told that people who have deep concerns about our current immigration policy are bigots and nativists. But Liberals in our country seem to be bent on repeating the self destructive mistakes of Europe. Look, in order for any nation to exist and thrive long term it must ordinarily have four things: One, it must have defined, controlled borders. Two, a common language. Three, a common culture, and four, a common religion upon which that culture is based. We used to have those things. It’s just plain silly to think that we are somehow stronger without them.

This is Brian Myers of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio with your Caffeinated Thought of the Day.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

Brian Myers and Steve Riker (filling in for Shane Vander Hart) this week on Caffeinated Thoughts Radio spoke to Kimberly Arms Shirk. Kimberly is a television reporter turned motivational speaker and writer. She discussed her new book coming out in September called Remote Fears & Silver Linings. 

Then Steve Myers of CyHawk Thoughts previewed Iowa and Iowa State football this fall with the guys.

Plus the Obama administration acknowledges that there were 14,900 more emails that Hillary Clinton never turned over to the FBI. Also, Judicial Watch released new State Department documents, including previously unreleased email exchanges in which former Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the Secretary of State.

Also, more than half of the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was serving as Secretary of State gave money to the Clinton Foundation, either personally or through or companies or groups, according to a review of State Department calendars released to the Associated Press.

The guys also discuss news that Sunni extremists are infiltrating the United States with the help of alien smugglers in South America and are crossing U.S. borders with ease, according to a U.S. South Command intelligence report.

Then, bucking against conservative Christian tradition advising against extra-marital sex, the Rev. Bromleigh McCleneghan, an associate pastor at Union Church of Hinsdale in Illinois, says single Christians can have sex as long as it’s “mutually pleasurable and affirming.” Wha??? 

Also a new report debunks much of the media narrative on gender and sexual orientation.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

Andy Alexander is an acquaintance of mine that recently wrote something quite profound. Noting the schizophrenia of the Democrat party where sexual identity is concerned, Andy wrote that Democrats were the only group of people that could be excited about their first female nominee for president, while simultaneously claiming that gender is a meaningless social construct that ought to be rejected as a relic of history. Andy was spot-on, of course. How can you possibly celebrate the achievements of a particular sex if the distinctions between the sexes are irrelevant or non-existent? So much for Hillary Clinton shattering a “glass ceiling”. After all, that sort of thing only exists in the minds of people that still connect gender to biology.

This is Brian Myers of Caffeinated Thoughts Radio with your Caffeinated Thought of the Day.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers were joined by Ray Comfort,  Founder and CEO of Living Waters, and the best-selling author of more than 80 books, including, Hell’s Best Kept Secret, Scientific Facts in the Bible, and The Evidence Bible. He co-hosts (with actor Kirk Cameron) the award-winning television program The Way of the Master, seen in 200 countries. He is also the executive producer of his latest film, The Atheist Delusion, which we discuss.

Shane and Brian also discuss Hillary Clinton’s interview with the FBI, and what she revealed. What does the shake-up with the Trump campaign mean and will it impact the election? Also, was Trump’s apology enough to turn things around?

Plus the State Department admits that the cash payment to Iran was tied with their prisoner’s release. Then U.S. Olympic swimmers  Ryan Lochte and James Feigen face charges of false reporting of a crime in Brazil. Asylum seekers in Germany refuse to work. Also, why is the flooding in Louisiana not getting the media attention it deserves, and why isn’t President Obama receiving criticism for not visiting the state? Plus, a school district in North Carolina has lost its ever-loving mind.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.

Shane Vander Hart and Brian Myers discuss email evidence that shows Hillary Clinton’s State Department did favors for major donors to the Clinton Foundation. Also additional news broke this week that shows the Department of Justice shut down the FBI’s request to open a public corruption investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

The guys also discuss al letter signed by dozens of former GOP elected officials and staff asking RNC Chair Reince Priebus to cut off funding from Donald Trump and focus on down ballot races instead. Plus Trump expects voters to turn out in large numbers and vote Trump because of his Trumpiness. Then The Donald said additional stupid things this week that grabbed media attention. In other news water is wet.

Plus Brian and Shane discuss the bullet Christian colleges and universities in California just dodged and why we should all be concerned. Then the guys discuss an update to the lawsuit against the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, the Obama administration’s ransom payment to Iran, Evan McMullin’s new presidential campaign and what is coming next in the nation’s slow embrace of sexual depravity.

Remember you can listen on air at 8:00a and 6:00p on Saturdays on The Truth Network 99.3 FM if you live in the Des Moines Metro area.  You can also listen online live here.  Also our podcast of the radio show can be found on iTunes, Google Play Music and Stitcher. You can also subscribe to the podcast on your Android-based phone.