The Generations Radio Program

Has Kirk Cameron left behind "Left Behind?" We consider a recent interview clip featuring Kirk, in the wake of another film episode of Left Behind ("The Rise of the Antichrist"). Does a certain eschatology require a pessimistic view of the church? What about polishing the brass on a sinking ship? How did short-term evangelism take the place of digging in for longer-term discipleship? Amid the apocalyptic fervor of the last 200 years, did we just lose 200 years of serious discipleship?

Here is a candid conversation on maintaining sexual purity in ministry, and as well for any young man who is in the battle and preparing for ministry. How do we engage regular disciplines, self-control, right accountability and transparency, and spiritual defensive and offensive warfare with the devil? Kevin Swanson catches up with his brother (from the mission field in the Philippines) on the topic. 

The 2023 Grammys Award ceremony celebrated artists and songs featuring transgenderism, Satanism, and profanity. But the Grammys have turned into an irrelevant side show. Among 77 of the top-selling albums of all time, only 1 comes from the last 20 years . . . and that was 12 years ago. Popular music and the popular icons that go with it is done. It's over for the pop-culture phenomenon of the last 60 years. The world passes away with its lusts thereof, but he who does the will of God abides forever. What is the source of this destructive force on culture, and why is every major institution behind the destructive agenda? But how do we rebuild a culture out of the ruins, or do we resort to the metaphoric islands of culture and freedom?

Biblical law requires that we not give to any respect of persons in judgment when it comes to how we view evil. For the most part, the media does not comply with Biblical law in this matter, and most other areas of jurisprudence. Therefore, Christians need to be on their game in matters relating to police abuse (which can be a real issue), police who are killed in the line of duty, etc. We lay out the issue in biblical terms, using Luke 3, Exodus 21, and Deuteronomy 17:12-13.

Are Americans missing the message? Leading pastors are losing hope in the power of the Gospel, and they have given up on the conversion of homosexuals. Andy Stanley reveals a devastating breach of faith when giving up on the possibility of God saving homosexuals. This is a lapse of faith, and a breach of humility. Jesus didn't come to call the righteous, and those who are too proud to admit they are sinners. Jesus came to call sinners to repentance.

Jinger Duggar Vuolo joins the "Gothard Recovery Group," (what appears to be an expanding help group) . . . as witnessed by her recent publicized interview on Fox News Digital. While the enemies of God will jump all over the scandals, the internal conflicts, and the shams of Christianity, they will never be able to sort out the good, the bad, and the ugly in the mix. While it isn't our job to sort out the Gothard mess and the basic life principles thereunto, we do wish to speak to the basic biblical principles by which we may better distinguish truth and error in any ministry or system of thought. We quickly tour through the ditches of legalism, antinomianism, wrong relationships of justification and sanctification, arbitrary hermeneutics, the sovereign-controlling tendencies of man-centered doctrine, and "the Lord told me" spiritual pseudo-authority.

Here is a 90-year tour of blockbuster movies and their impact on the world, beginning in the 1930s and ending in the 2020s. We look at three radical cultural breaks—the genre shift, the moral shift, and the worldview shift. It was a crossover from reality to unreality, from illusion to delusion, from an external morality to a blatant immorality, and from a Christian worldview underpinning to pantheism and naturalism.

Will Christians passively accept the new social agenda, or is this the time to take off the gloves in the cultural and social wars? The present agenda of those attacking family, fatherhood, sexuality, and economy are self-consciously self-destructive. . . . This isn’t just some culture revolution . . . this is cultural suicide. But what will Christians do? Chris Willey speaks with us about his new book, “The Household and the War for the Cosmos.” 

By the end of the year, about 3-4% of the salmon sold in the American markets for human consumption will be GMO-designed salmon. Hey, they grow twice as fast as normal salmon! And lab-grown meat is on its way too. How does Leviticus 19:19 tie in, or doesn't it? Could corporate greed wind up cutting too many corners when it comes to human health? What happens when the entire scientific world is wrapped up in greed or a lack of the fear of God? Shall the man body or animals be used for some purpose not intended by the Creator? Christians need to start answering a few questions as the brave new world marches on.

Almost 80% of US parents are concerned about their children's mental health. That wasn't the case for Almanzo Wilder's parents in 1880. What in the world happened to our world? Media. Transgenderism. Isolation. Wrong thinking about everything. God gives them up to a corrupt mind. . . . But how do we raise our children outside of the mental institute called "our world?"