The Generations Radio Program

The fossil record touted for human evolution is evaporating, year after year, decade after decade, post-Darwin. The media hype isn’t quite enough to keep the theory on life support. Neanderthal turned out to be fully human. Ardipithecus ramidus turned out to be an ape. Naledi turned out to be an ape-like creature more recently gone extinct—not the missing link everybody had hoped for. Turkana boy turned out to be fully human. Lucy was a knuckle walker after all. The evidence has gone up in smoke, and evolutionists are now in crisis. Subsequent research into fossil finds would always increase levels of skepticism concerning conclusions drawn. Significant disagreement prevailed among evolutionary paleontologists concerning the evidence itself. While consensus was illusive among the evolutionary scientific community, universities and government schools would still carry on a pretense of consensus and dogmatic assertions in the textbooks. 

Communism and socialism has captured South America, Central America, North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. It's called "the pink tide," taking Brazil by storm over the weekend. Will freedom survive anywhere? But what about Liz Truss and Trump? Conservative push back is extremely short-term and unsubstantial. But why? We provide three reasons why we lose. How will Christians move ahead, given the rising persecution inevitably coming out of the post-Christian era?

How are you handling media in your family? Social media? Music? Movies? Never has media had such a toxic effect on families as it does today. The media can be a powerful tool or a devastating destructive device. There are no options but to become better discerning, better equipped, and better informed. Here's how that can happen.

Guest host Adam McManus examines a recent talk by David Barton, founder of WallBuilders, in which he explained that most Christians are only two-thirds Christians. They treasure only two of God’s three institutions–the family and the church. But, to their peril, they ignore the importance and influence of the civil government. Forty million Evangelical Christian are not even registered to vote. And, on Election Day, too few Christians show up to cast an informed ballot. We need to be fully three-thirds Christians!

Our disobedience is an outgrowth of our disregard for daily Bible reading. In 2021, 26 million fewer Americans read their Bible, according to the American Bible Society report. Amazingly, President John Quincy Adams wrote a book urging 10-year-olds to read through the Bible in a year, cover-to-cover, because that’s what Americans did.

You’ll hear how the Great Awakening was really the story of thousands of little revivals which were planted by George Whitefield, the British preacher, who spoke 18,000 times in 34 years. Remarkably, 80% of Americans had heard Whitfield preach in person. When revival broke out in Boston, for example, Pastor Sam Cooper kept it going another decade there. The same thing was true of the stewardship of Pastor Gilbert Tennent in Philadelphia and Pastor Samuel Davies in the woods of Virginia.

Barton said, “Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God as because we're a stewardship nation. We don't have kings that tell us what to do. We tell them what to do! God put the government in our hands. Christians have a responsibility. God will bless or curse this nation according to the course that Christians take in politics.

“Why is that true? Because we know in Proverbs 14:34 it says, ‘Righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to any people.’ We love to sing God bless America. But if we want God to bless America, we’ve got to give Him something to work with. It takes righteousness that He can bless. So, how do you get righteousness? Proverbs 29:2 says, ‘When the righteous rule, the people rejoice. When the wicked rule, the people groan.’ ”

Listen for inspiring examples of what has happened in Virginia and Texas when pastors preach the importance of Christians voting, when Christians gets registered, and then cast Biblically-informed votes.

Church attendance has dropped off 60% in just 13 years!!! The discouragement is overwhelming for US pastors and church members. Respect for pastors has dropped in half in just 13 years!!! It is just about the least-respected position in our society today. No wonder almost half of pastors want to quit. Kevin Swanson speaks from his own experience as we address the causes of burn out for pastors on this edition.

Europe is turning over to the Hindus and Muslims, and the Chinese Communists are getting tough now. What will post-Christian Europe and America do against the increasingly strident Chinese communists? The Christian influence in the world undergoes the ebb and flow process throughout the centuries. But, what does one do during the ebb? Do what John Wycliff did. That’s our encouragement for the remnant now.

A shocking report from George Barna finds that abortion is not even on the list of the top five concerns for evangelicals as we approach the 2022 elections. Gas prices come in at #1, inflation at #2, food prices at #3, crime and personal safety at #4, and protection from terrorism at #5. The selling of millions of baby lives for 30 cents on the gallon for gas prices doesn't settle well with us. Besides, Republicans caused inflation by QE, and now Republicans blame it on the Democrats. The hypocrisy drips, and Christians need to call it out.

These days, you will find plenty of psychiatrists, professional counselors, slick presenters, absent fathers, and professional administrators in homes and churches, but where are the shepherds? Kevin Swanson interviews Timothy Witmer regarding his book, "The Shepherd Leader at Home." If fatherhood (or shepherding) is the most desperate need of the day, how can we regain this vision?

It's not just pastors and missionaries that are responsible for discipling the nations and impacting society for Christ. There are viable opportunities out there for people in business, media, entertainment, and culture. Kevin Swanson initiates the conversation with Guy Rodgers from Pinnacle Forum on ways everyday Christians can bring their faith into the rest of life!

We struggle to describe the house of cards called the US economy on this edition of the program. The stock market has effectively already crashed. But, the volatility and general flakiness of the modern economy and society is beyond anything we've ever seen in modern history. Powerful governments were trying to fix economies by spending more and more money. They were trying to control the national economy by manipulating the interest rates. They had encouraged everybody into increasing levels of debt. They created inflation by issuing more money to pay for government debt. Rather than fixing economic problems then, they ended up ruining the worldwide economy.