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Church Freedoms and Family Freedoms
Our forefathers went to war over 27 cents of annual taxation, and now we bow to government taxing the citizens up to 60% of the Gross National Income, and the National Debt obligating each family in America to the tune of $1,000,000 plus.
The freedoms held dear by those that fought hard included primarily freedom for the church to operate free from the regulatory influences of the state. Of course the church is pretty irrelevant to most people today, so they would hardly hold this freedom sacrosanct anymore.
But now the battle has shifted to the sphere of the family. Of course the family is pretty irrelevant to most people today, so they would hardly hold parental rights sacrosanct anymore. Kevin Swanson also challenges the listening audience to a new battle for freedom, over the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Our forefathers went to war over 27 cents of annual taxation, and now we bow to government taxing the citizens up to 60% of the Gross National Income, and the National Debt obligating each family in America to the tune of $1,000,000 plus.
The freedoms held dear by those that fought hard included primarily freedom for the church to operate free from the regulatory influences of the state. Of course the church is pretty irrelevant to most people today, so they would hardly hold this freedom sacrosanct anymore.
But now the battle has shifted to the sphere of the family. Of course the family is pretty irrelevant to most people today, so they would hardly hold parental rights sacrosanct anymore. Kevin Swanson also challenges the listening audience to a new battle for freedom, over the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Who Owns the Children?
Kevin Swanson points out that the child labor laws and the accompanying unraveling of the family oikonomia (economic systems), have all worked to produce a nation where 70% of young men are not grown up by 30 years of age (per Newsweek magazine).Where families once functioned as families, the corporations enriched themselves on enslaving the children (and the parents), until the children were turned over to the government. The same thing is happening now to healthcare. Our healthcare decisions were turned over to corporations, and now the corporations are turning them back over to the government in the form of socialist healthcare. This is HOW millions of families are turned over to the governance of total socialism. Kevin argues that a biblical worldview empowers the family, while a socialist worldview centralizes power and turns all power over to the centralized state.
Kevin Swanson points out that the child labor laws and the accompanying unraveling of the family oikonomia (economic systems), have all worked to produce a nation where 70% of young men are not grown up by 30 years of age (per Newsweek magazine).Where families once functioned as families, the corporations enriched themselves on enslaving the children (and the parents), until the children were turned over to the government. The same thing is happening now to healthcare. Our healthcare decisions were turned over to corporations, and now the corporations are turning them back over to the government in the form of socialist healthcare. This is HOW millions of families are turned over to the governance of total socialism. Kevin argues that a biblical worldview empowers the family, while a socialist worldview centralizes power and turns all power over to the centralized state.
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Interview: N.D. Wilson
On this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson interviews N.D. Wilson, Christian author of several popular novels, addressing important questions like, what is a bad book? What is the difference between witchcraft and what Elijah or Moses were doing in the Old Testament? If we were Trinitarian Christians and believed in God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility, might this affect the stories we write?
On this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson interviews N.D. Wilson, Christian author of several popular novels, addressing important questions like, what is a bad book? What is the difference between witchcraft and what Elijah or Moses were doing in the Old Testament? If we were Trinitarian Christians and believed in God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility, might this affect the stories we write?
The End of Theocracy
Just when we all had put our hopes in the secular state, and did our little dance with Jon Meacham of Newsweek Magazine on the grave of "Theocracy," the whole things crashes down on top of us! As Iran and America shake off their religious moorings, the secularists are celebrating their new-found utopia. While hating to be a big party-pooper, the gods of the copybook headings mosey up to explain it once more. What did the old man say? "Either you'll be governed by God or by God you'll be governed!". Kevin Swanson chronicles the rise of self-inflicted tyranny in the form of Cap and Trade, national healthcare, and other socialist plans for America. Meanwhile, down in South Carolina the loyal opposition appears to be losing whatever character was left on the right side of the aisle - once again proving what the old man said. When God changes the hearts of a family, He renews beautiful relationships and builds love and joy and righteousness into all of our institutions!!
Just when we all had put our hopes in the secular state, and did our little dance with Jon Meacham of Newsweek Magazine on the grave of "Theocracy," the whole things crashes down on top of us! As Iran and America shake off their religious moorings, the secularists are celebrating their new-found utopia. While hating to be a big party-pooper, the gods of the copybook headings mosey up to explain it once more. What did the old man say? "Either you'll be governed by God or by God you'll be governed!". Kevin Swanson chronicles the rise of self-inflicted tyranny in the form of Cap and Trade, national healthcare, and other socialist plans for America. Meanwhile, down in South Carolina the loyal opposition appears to be losing whatever character was left on the right side of the aisle - once again proving what the old man said. When God changes the hearts of a family, He renews beautiful relationships and builds love and joy and righteousness into all of our institutions!!
Jettisoning Biblical Ethics
Two-thirds of teens don't believe in God, and six out of ten say that "religion has a negative influence on the world."
Meanwhile, on the slide into Gomorrah, Kevin Swanson gives the biblical reasons why Christians don't commit incest, and don't mark the flesh with Tattoos. You'll find it in God's Laws somewhere in Leviticus.
The thesis-antithesis thing gets pretty blurry by the time you start reading the evangelical Sojourner Magazine. Kevin Swanson plays a piece from Bart Campolo and comments on it.
Two-thirds of teens don't believe in God, and six out of ten say that "religion has a negative influence on the world."
Meanwhile, on the slide into Gomorrah, Kevin Swanson gives the biblical reasons why Christians don't commit incest, and don't mark the flesh with Tattoos. You'll find it in God's Laws somewhere in Leviticus.
The thesis-antithesis thing gets pretty blurry by the time you start reading the evangelical Sojourner Magazine. Kevin Swanson plays a piece from Bart Campolo and comments on it.
Why Cities are Blue and Evil
In one of the most engaging discussions ever broadcast on the Generations radio program, Kevin Swanson touches California's Great Depression, shaping up to beat the one that hit America in the 1930s.
Things are different today. The cities are corrupt, and dying; some soon to be bulldozed and turned back into farmland. Is it time to leave the cities? Could God judge these cities as He did to others in the history of the world, or could He care less if these cities repented? What if God really does exist? What if He really does care what happens in these cities?
In one of the most engaging discussions ever broadcast on the Generations radio program, Kevin Swanson touches California's Great Depression, shaping up to beat the one that hit America in the 1930s.
Things are different today. The cities are corrupt, and dying; some soon to be bulldozed and turned back into farmland. Is it time to leave the cities? Could God judge these cities as He did to others in the history of the world, or could He care less if these cities repented? What if God really does exist? What if He really does care what happens in these cities?
The Best Education for Your Child
In the cacophony of diverse recommendations for the education of children, parents really do make choices that prove to be fatal for their children. Sometimes they walk away from education conferences confused. All they know is that education is vitally important, as it forms the minds and hearts of the next generation.
Having returned from visiting several homeschooling conferences around America and Canada, Kevin Swanson boils it down to several basic principles for parents who are committed to a good, solid Christian education on this edition of Generations.
In the cacophony of diverse recommendations for the education of children, parents really do make choices that prove to be fatal for their children. Sometimes they walk away from education conferences confused. All they know is that education is vitally important, as it forms the minds and hearts of the next generation.
Having returned from visiting several homeschooling conferences around America and Canada, Kevin Swanson boils it down to several basic principles for parents who are committed to a good, solid Christian education on this edition of Generations.
The Seminaries - Beginning with Harvard
Somehow America worked its way from solid Christian beginnings to a nation that endorses the worst possible evils (as defined by God's laws.) In this careful historical analysis, Kevin Swanson traces the roots of the rot in the foundations to the seminaries, particularly Harvard seminary. Two men worked hard to destroy the foundations of this country in the latter part of the 17th century - William Brattle and John Leverett. The battle over Education is the key battle for the soul of families, churches, and nations. And the good guys have been losing for 400 years plus.
Somehow America worked its way from solid Christian beginnings to a nation that endorses the worst possible evils (as defined by God's laws.) In this careful historical analysis, Kevin Swanson traces the roots of the rot in the foundations to the seminaries, particularly Harvard seminary. Two men worked hard to destroy the foundations of this country in the latter part of the 17th century - William Brattle and John Leverett. The battle over Education is the key battle for the soul of families, churches, and nations. And the good guys have been losing for 400 years plus.
Hotel Porn
A bird away from his nest, and a man away from his home - it turns the man into a temporary vagabond, unaccountable and disconnected from his covenantal relationships.
In this ground-breaking program on the modern culture of travel, Kevin Swanson addresses the problem of hotel porn, and how the Apostle Paul or the Prophet Elijah would have dealt with it. They would have stayed in a brother's house, and enjoyed true, biblical hospitality.
A bird away from his nest, and a man away from his home - it turns the man into a temporary vagabond, unaccountable and disconnected from his covenantal relationships.
In this ground-breaking program on the modern culture of travel, Kevin Swanson addresses the problem of hotel porn, and how the Apostle Paul or the Prophet Elijah would have dealt with it. They would have stayed in a brother's house, and enjoyed true, biblical hospitality.
Plan B: The Meek and Quiet Spirit
Sociologists, psychiatrists, and university study-ers are worried that women are more narcissist AND more unhappy than they were in the 1970s. What’s with this? I guess the secularist worldview wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and maybe God had something there in that old, dusty Bible sitting under Grandma’s picture!
The Generations dads also talk about the out-of-control internet craze that is ruining relationships and doing even more damage to the dis-integrated, de-relationalized family of the 21st century.
Sociologists, psychiatrists, and university study-ers are worried that women are more narcissist AND more unhappy than they were in the 1970s. What’s with this? I guess the secularist worldview wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and maybe God had something there in that old, dusty Bible sitting under Grandma’s picture!
The Generations dads also talk about the out-of-control internet craze that is ruining relationships and doing even more damage to the dis-integrated, de-relationalized family of the 21st century.
The Comeback of the American Folk Family Band
Reformed social systems will eventually provide for new cultural forms. Thirty-five bands, about half of which are made up of homeschool families will converge on the El Paso County fairgrounds in Colorado on June 26th and 27th, for Gospel Grass 2009.
Kevin Swanson interviews one of the family bands as they embark on a yearlong venture around the United States on tour. The Dennis Haroldson family is the Desert Skies Band.
Reformed social systems will eventually provide for new cultural forms. Thirty-five bands, about half of which are made up of homeschool families will converge on the El Paso County fairgrounds in Colorado on June 26th and 27th, for Gospel Grass 2009.
Kevin Swanson interviews one of the family bands as they embark on a yearlong venture around the United States on tour. The Dennis Haroldson family is the Desert Skies Band.
Is there a Better Way to Reach our Kids?
A recent survey conducted by researcher, Britt Beemer finds that regular participants in Sunday School are more likely to leave the church, believe the Bible is less true, and defend premarital sex. Ken Ham, author of the new book "Already Gone," calls it as "brutal wake-up call for the church."
But what if we experimented with more fatherhood, more family discipleship, more integration of the family, more honor of parents, and more love for children? Here Kevin Swanson suggests the Ephesians 6:1-4, Deuteronomy 6:7, and 1 Thessalonians 2:11 approach to children's ministry.
A recent survey conducted by researcher, Britt Beemer finds that regular participants in Sunday School are more likely to leave the church, believe the Bible is less true, and defend premarital sex. Ken Ham, author of the new book "Already Gone," calls it as "brutal wake-up call for the church."
But what if we experimented with more fatherhood, more family discipleship, more integration of the family, more honor of parents, and more love for children? Here Kevin Swanson suggests the Ephesians 6:1-4, Deuteronomy 6:7, and 1 Thessalonians 2:11 approach to children's ministry.
Egalitarians or Dominion Takers?
Must our daughters feel locked into a socialist framework for life, and work to perpetuate the economic dis-integration of the household? Or do we train them to be do-nothings that care little for the economic well-being of the home, as they sit around eating bon-bons and dreaming of Prince Charming?
To answer these difficult questions, Kevin Swanson interviews Elizabeth and Anna Botkin on their groundbreaking and thoughtful book on womanhood – So Much More.
Must our daughters feel locked into a socialist framework for life, and work to perpetuate the economic dis-integration of the household? Or do we train them to be do-nothings that care little for the economic well-being of the home, as they sit around eating bon-bons and dreaming of Prince Charming?
To answer these difficult questions, Kevin Swanson interviews Elizabeth and Anna Botkin on their groundbreaking and thoughtful book on womanhood – So Much More.
Kingdom, Church, and Culture
"Whatever you do, don't engage the culture!" That's the advice coming from prominent theologians today from reformed seminaries, now reacting against whatever it was Francis Schaeffer was trying to teach us in the 1970s and 1980s.
With the rejection of God's law and the radical separation of faith and life coming from a rapidly-apostatizing Christianity today, it's about time that Christians in the west develop a proper theology of kingdom, church, and culture.
There are many potential traps in this discussion, and Kevin Swanson quickly outlines a biblical approach to the subject in this edition of Generations.
"Whatever you do, don't engage the culture!" That's the advice coming from prominent theologians today from reformed seminaries, now reacting against whatever it was Francis Schaeffer was trying to teach us in the 1970s and 1980s.
With the rejection of God's law and the radical separation of faith and life coming from a rapidly-apostatizing Christianity today, it's about time that Christians in the west develop a proper theology of kingdom, church, and culture.
There are many potential traps in this discussion, and Kevin Swanson quickly outlines a biblical approach to the subject in this edition of Generations.
Hooking Up Replacing Dating
Warning: We recommend that parents listen to this program before sharing it with their children.
Dating is being increasingly replaced by a new trend called “hooking up.” For those of you who need a definition, it's basically what dogs do. To avoid the hassle of relationships and the emotional baggage of break ups, young people now prefer emotional detachment and the life of the vagabond.
Ironically, the Generations dads also recommend the abandonment of dating, but for different reasons. We're renewing relational living! We're restoring relationships. We're looking for the very best possible husbands for our daughters, and the most compatible wives for our sons. While the world is coming apart at the seams, we're laying footers down six feet deep in our families, foundations that will hold for GENERATIONS!
Included in this program is the question of marrying unbelievers, or fornicators, or ex-prostitutes.
Warning: We recommend that parents listen to this program before sharing it with their children.
Dating is being increasingly replaced by a new trend called “hooking up.” For those of you who need a definition, it's basically what dogs do. To avoid the hassle of relationships and the emotional baggage of break ups, young people now prefer emotional detachment and the life of the vagabond.
Ironically, the Generations dads also recommend the abandonment of dating, but for different reasons. We're renewing relational living! We're restoring relationships. We're looking for the very best possible husbands for our daughters, and the most compatible wives for our sons. While the world is coming apart at the seams, we're laying footers down six feet deep in our families, foundations that will hold for GENERATIONS!
Included in this program is the question of marrying unbelievers, or fornicators, or ex-prostitutes.
he Oklahoma Decision
In the wake of another controversy over the posting of the ten commandments in Oklahoma, and the rejection of the Christian faith on the part of our leaders, Kevin Swanson contrasts the present state of affairs with an earlier era in this nation's history.
When asked if he thought America would win the conflict with England, John Adams' response was, "If we repent of our sins and fear God." Few statesmen would be caught dead saying anything like that today.
But Judge Roy Moore (recent Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court) did say something like that, and he still does. Kevin Swanson interviews the Judge on his present bid for Governor of Alabama in the second segment of the program.
In the wake of another controversy over the posting of the ten commandments in Oklahoma, and the rejection of the Christian faith on the part of our leaders, Kevin Swanson contrasts the present state of affairs with an earlier era in this nation's history.
When asked if he thought America would win the conflict with England, John Adams' response was, "If we repent of our sins and fear God." Few statesmen would be caught dead saying anything like that today.
But Judge Roy Moore (recent Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court) did say something like that, and he still does. Kevin Swanson interviews the Judge on his present bid for Governor of Alabama in the second segment of the program.
The Surprising Influence of a Father
High rates of divorce and non-marital childbearing mean that about half of children today are likely to live some of their childhood in a home where their father does not live. The government spends $100 billion each year dealing with the problem of fatherlessness, while at the same time contributing to the problem by godless education systems, welfare programs, and bad divorce law (that does not take God's law into account.)
The problem will never be fixed by government, while the hearts of fathers have yet to be turned to the sons. This will only happen one father at a time. Stephen Newell, MD, Director of a program called Men of Valor, challenges dads to be a dad, as God defines it in His Word. Whether a father is single, divorced, married and in trouble, or married and in a stable marriage, it's never too late for a father to learn what it is to be father as God meant it.
High rates of divorce and non-marital childbearing mean that about half of children today are likely to live some of their childhood in a home where their father does not live. The government spends $100 billion each year dealing with the problem of fatherlessness, while at the same time contributing to the problem by godless education systems, welfare programs, and bad divorce law (that does not take God's law into account.)
The problem will never be fixed by government, while the hearts of fathers have yet to be turned to the sons. This will only happen one father at a time. Stephen Newell, MD, Director of a program called Men of Valor, challenges dads to be a dad, as God defines it in His Word. Whether a father is single, divorced, married and in trouble, or married and in a stable marriage, it's never too late for a father to learn what it is to be father as God meant it.
Adding Up the Abominations
Evangelicals note that President Obama's Gay Pride decree added a few abominations to the list of what was celebrated under President Clinton's in the 1990s.
Here Kevin Swanson considers President Obama's socialist tendencies and his Muslim sympathies, contrasting them with a biblical worldview. Think about it. What are the liberty-denying hell holes in the world? Ironically, they tend to be Communist and Muslim.
Evangelicals note that President Obama's Gay Pride decree added a few abominations to the list of what was celebrated under President Clinton's in the 1990s.
Here Kevin Swanson considers President Obama's socialist tendencies and his Muslim sympathies, contrasting them with a biblical worldview. Think about it. What are the liberty-denying hell holes in the world? Ironically, they tend to be Communist and Muslim.
A Vision for our Young Men
It's time to face the fact that we have failed in the education of young men in this nation. Our current systems either produce perpetual adolescence or feminized, intellectualized geeks - good little bureaucrats who are trained to be nice in their little cubicles.
70% of young men are not grown up by 30 years of age, and there are far more women graduating from college than men. The world has noticed. The problem is that Christians and homeschoolers have to this point ignored the issue. Kevin Swanson presents the solution and calls on Christian parents everywhere to start working TODAY on a problem that is sure to devastate a civilization.
It's time to face the fact that we have failed in the education of young men in this nation. Our current systems either produce perpetual adolescence or feminized, intellectualized geeks - good little bureaucrats who are trained to be nice in their little cubicles.
70% of young men are not grown up by 30 years of age, and there are far more women graduating from college than men. The world has noticed. The problem is that Christians and homeschoolers have to this point ignored the issue. Kevin Swanson presents the solution and calls on Christian parents everywhere to start working TODAY on a problem that is sure to devastate a civilization.
The Courtship Principles
There are those who will live their lives with their fornicating trysts, their pre-marital sexual experiences, their date and break up relationships, their three divorces, their dysfunctional relational life, their broken covenants, and their shattered families. Then there are those who have committed to save that first kiss for their wedding day. Thankfully, some communities are rejecting the 75-year experiment and consequent failure of the dating culture, and they are seeking biblical guidance in the area of courtship. Kevin Swanson interviews Christina Rogers, author of "Leave Dating Behind," on this edition of Generations.
There are those who will live their lives with their fornicating trysts, their pre-marital sexual experiences, their date and break up relationships, their three divorces, their dysfunctional relational life, their broken covenants, and their shattered families. Then there are those who have committed to save that first kiss for their wedding day. Thankfully, some communities are rejecting the 75-year experiment and consequent failure of the dating culture, and they are seeking biblical guidance in the area of courtship. Kevin Swanson interviews Christina Rogers, author of "Leave Dating Behind," on this edition of Generations.
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