Generations Radio

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.