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.
June 10, 2009
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.
June 9, 2009
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.
June 8, 2009
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.
June 5, 2009
How Education Frames the Mind of a Nation
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals disallows the reading of the Bible for public school Kindergarten Show and Tell. Chief Judge Scarica doesn't want "religious texts" in the classroom, but Kevin Swanson points out that every textbook is a religious text. It's only one religious text, only one worldview that is forthrightly rejected in American public schools – the biblical worldview.
Communism in Amerika?
Pravda News in Russia carries an article pointing out the rise of communist tendencies in American government, remarking that freedom is dying without so much as a whimper from the masses. We take a moment to savor the irony, and then attribute the success of the rising socialist state to socialist indoctrination centers – called public schools.
June 4, 2009
The Real Villains
A mass murderer was murdered by another murderer in a church where the mass murderer served as an usher. What a mess! Where do you start on a story like this? Kevin Swanson compares it to one hit man knocking off another hit man.
If anybody's keeping track of the body count in all of this, here's our tally:
Babies – 50,000,000.
Abortion Killers – 7.
But wait. Who are the real villains in this story? Kevin Swanson places the blame for the state of the nation at the feet of The Rev. Lowell Michelson and The Rev. Kristin Neitzel.
June 3, 2009
Nuclear Weapons from a Biblical Worldview
North Korea. Iran. Pakistan. At least twenty nations now have enough raw material to make at least one nuclear weapon. The genie is out of the bottle and in another 50 years will be significantly larger.
So how do we look at Nuclear War by way of a biblical worldview - a biblical anthropology, a biblical ethic, and a biblical soteriology. If the Romans 3 perspective of man is accurate (and we assume it is), what are odds that nuclear warheads will be flying around cities within the next few decades? If there were Christians in power who actually believed a biblical ethic on war (per Deut. 20), what sort of defense systems should we put together for our families?
This is an important program if you want to keep your families alive for another generation or two.
June 2, 2009
Healing Hearts
If 43% of women have had an abortion, what happens to these millions of moms and dads who are now coming to grips with the reality of what they have done?
In one of the most powerful programs we have ever aired, Sue Liljenberg from Healing Hearts Ministries walks us through the process. What does it take to make this walk? It takes nothing short of the supernatural power of God for a person to both realize they have killed their own child, and then to receive the forgiveness of God at the cross of Christ!
June 1, 2009
The Problem of Distracted, Disengaged Fathers
If more fathers wanted to protect their daughters' purity and insisted on modesty in heart and dress, would clothing styles be any different than they are today? Would their fifteen year old daughters pose for Vanity Fair magazine, or stand up for their Christian faith in a bikini on national television?
Seldom discussed in Christian media, but highly significant in all of this is the problem of disconnected, disinterested, and distracted fathers. Kevin Swanson interviews James and Stacy McDonald on the subject of modesty, with a special focus on dad's role in protecting the purity and modesty of his daughters.
May 29, 2009
Christians who Work for the Mafia
Should you get a job teaching that the beginning of knowledge is NOT the fear of God? Should you work in sex education classes in a high school, explaining the failure rates of condoms, drawing the distinctions between forms of homosexual activity. . . while you are not permitted to teach it in the fear of God? Should you as a Christian contractor, construct torture cells in Guantanamo for the purpose of torturing Christians, or even Muslims for that matter? What if the government has just confiscated 8 properties from widows in your county, and they want to sell it to you for ten cents on the dollar?
Kevin Swanson addresses the tricky questions of being in the world but not of it, in this segment of Generations. Should Christian home educators take money from the government and the concomitant controls? What if the government wants to give you $10,000 for a research project on the procreating behavior of aardvarks during a full moon?
May 28, 2009