The Generations Radio Program

Christian social commentators are grappling with how to respond to the collapse of civilizations. The options are: resist and reform, accelerate the collapse, enjoy the decline, build an ark, and deny and proceed. One of the significant questions still to answer is whether we move more separatist on the separatist-puritan continuum. Here we review some of the weaknesses of separatism, especially in light of the early Pilgrim-Puritan experience.

And, the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire. Governments are always trying to make a soft landing for totally irresponsible, drunken-sailor financial conditions they've created over the last 40 years. The soft landing turns out to be more drunken-sailor, irresponsible spending . . . and quantitative easing. They don't want a crash . . . so they're doing everything in their power to prevent it . . . and keep the lemmings running off the cliff at a steady pace. We bring three biblical principles to bear on the present situation in the UK and the USA.

God speaks, and we respond to the voice of God in the Word. But worship today is configured as authentic expression or an emotional experience. What is Biblical worship? Is it a formal liturgy or the informal guy in the t-shirt and tennis shoes having a conversation with us from the front of the stage? Can rejoicing and reverence be complementary in worship? Why is psalm singing so essential to the worship of the church today?

These are last-ditch efforts to salvage a civilization. . . . Politics can't do it. The Roman Church can't do it. But what about their first female Prime Minister—Europe's 16th female head of state? We take a look at the "fascist" invective, and then identify the failure of Italian civilization as the breakdown of faith and family.

Iranian Morality Police beat a woman to death for not getting her hijab on straight. But then, every nation has morality police. It's just a question of which morality is to be enforced. Should the civil magistrate fine people who don't bake cakes for homosexual weddings? What about putting a person in jail for starving their dog to death since dogs are "made in the image of God?" Nonetheless, higher levels of autocracy are found worldwide now that freedom is dying out. Only the Gospel and God's Law could ever restore liberty somewhere in the world.

Almost 200 million views in four days for the new Netflix docu-series on Jeffrey Dahmer, for these fixated on the evil. But, even the final episode leaves out the real story, the real motive, the real explanation, the real insight provided in the NBC Stone Phillips interview. Although what's available from the 1994 interview has been heavily redacted, we have uncovered the explosive four minutes in the interview that explains the real motive of evil, and the only corrective to it. The world doesn't want to face the true implications of evolutionary naturalism—as clearly presented by the testimony of Jeffrey Dahmer, and Klebold and Harris. The world just doesn't want to face the truth—either of the cause or the solution. The world would rather muck around in the evil and surrender themselves to the horror of it than they would acknowledge the supremacy of Jesus Christ over the works of the devil.

Americans increasingly do not believe the church is essential. For this program Pastor Bill Shishko joins us to answer some basic questions. What's the focus of the church? Should the church focus on evangelism, worship, or discipleship? What constitutes a church? What's a healthy church? There are dysfunctional churches and then there are healthy churches. But healthy churches are not always pretty—they are usually in the midst of crisis and pretty bloodied up. But there is a growing robustness in God-centered worship, faith, and love.

Entrepreneurship and family business is not the easiest proposition in the present economy. This conversation provides insights into the relationship of discipleship, ministry, and business. We interview Jim Mueller, a business coach, on his experience with MLM's—the good and the bad, the successful and the less so. What makes a good coach in business, and . . . more importantly, how does one seek out and receive good coaching?

"Worshiping alone or with one's family is a valid replacement for regularly attending church." The majority of evangelicals now agree with the statement. We take a close look at the biblical definition of the church, its necessity, and the reasons why people are exiting the church.

Everybody bans books because every library has a budget. That should be obvious. Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the latest book suffering the attacks of the left. The degree to which any book conforms to the latest standards of Woke . . . puts every book in question. But the book is banned for insulting man, but nobody seems to care about insults to God. We do a careful analysis of the tone, the worldview, the mockery of Christianity, and the shallow and insubstantial ethic of the book. And . . . what did the homosexual journalist/author Truman Capote have to do with this author's worldview?