The Generations Radio Program

The conservative Jewish commentator, Dennis Prager makes the point that whatever the left touches, it ruins.  It’s the mud touch.  The left is self-consciously self-destructive.  It is bent on destroying the universities, art, women, and children.  Nonetheless, is it really all that helpful to fight the left? Why fight some group of people who want to commit mass suicide?   Wisdom says, “All that love me, hate death.”  But, how do we get guys like Dennis Prager and everybody else to love Wisdom and Christ? 

Shall Christians use Facebook? Does it really matter if we lose most of our privacy?  What is the downside to all the major powers that be knowing our every thought, faith commitment, and moves?   Do we really have anything to hide? Shall we trust governments and corporations with a great deal of power, or will they corrupt absolutely and turn tyrannical on us? Christians need to go into the Internet with much discernment. We discuss the positives and negatives. Facebook has ruined relationships, fed pride, and nurtured the worst types of conflicts.  However, there may be a few useful reasons for its existence. 

The biggest political news this week - the second most powerful man in America is voluntarily resigning to spend more time with his children. That may be the best news we’ve heard in 12 years from Washington DC! The rest of it is pretty much bad news, but at least somebody is straightening out his priorities! A record number of Republicans are resigning - they’re sick of it. Washington’s a lost cause, but there are a few other causes that aren’t lost causes. We go over them on this edition of the program.

For years, this magazine has stumbled 12 year old boys and 12 year old girls at the grocery checkout counter.  Cosmopolitan magazine is one of the most influential forces in the country, introducing sexual license to millions upon millions of young teenage women and men. Finally, Walmart is pulling the magazine from the checkout lanes.  Feminists were nervous about the magazine. They were okay with women using certain means to manipulate men and to use men.  They didn’t like men using women however, by objectifying them via soft porn.  What is the Christian answer to these feminists’ ploys?    

We interact with Pope Francis’s reported statement that “There is no hell.”  Then, we discuss the recent Pew Research on the high incidence of Christians who are divorced and/or cohabiting outside of the bonds of wedlock.  Lutherans have the strongest marriages, and Roman Catholics and Pentecostals are more likely to be divorced and/or cohabiting.  But, the Hindus and Muslims in America beat out the Christians big time.  Why is Christianity so weak morally in comparison with Hindus?  Is there something wrong with American Christianity?  

Sadly, America and much of the West is missing out on the Fifth Great Awakening going on right now.  What a heart breaker!  While the world is seeing an amazing work of God, the church in America and the English speaking nations are largely dying, dead, lukewarm, cold, and lifeless.  The problem is that America refuses to acknowledge Christ as Lord and King.  The sacred-secular divide has been deadly in the West.

Christians have largely abandoned the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts for its promotion of sexual practices referred to as abominable in Scripture. Now, the USDA has issued new “guidelines” for the homosexualizing of 4-H programs in the rural areas of the nation. The problem, of course, is that what the government funds the government controls. Is it time for Christians to create all of their own programs for children? 

America’s monetary system has become increasingly brittle especially after the 1998 and 2008 market crashes.  It’s been ten years since the last big crash, and the debt to GDP ratio is now about twice what it was before the last crash. But should we trust what the Book of Proverbs says about debt and dishonest weights and measures?   Would you trust God’s Word on this one.  How should Christians prepare for a collapse of the monetary system?  How would we replace a dishonest monetary system with an honest system? 

The world presses a different world and life view on us. . . and it pressures us to live the wrong life, with wrong priorities, wrong perspectives, wrong motivations, wrong goals, and wrong expectations. . . and we wind up with the wrong Schedule, doing the wrong things in life. The results are familiar to a lot of us. . . burn out, adrenal fatigue, overwhelming exhaustion, depression, panic attacks, emotional overload, anxiety, and extreme negativity. Kevin Swanson interviews David and Shona Murray on their new books that speak to our age. . . "Reset" and "Refresh." If you live in 21st Century America, you need to listen to this.

We visit the front lines of the battle against child sex trafficking on this edition of Generations. Jesus is concerned that we are caring for the “least of these,” and there is no more severe crime than that which is inflicted upon small children.  And, the very worst of the child sex slave trafficking is found in Cambodia and Tunisia.  Kevin Swanson gets a full report on recent rescues from Jeff Brodsky of Joy International.