Generations Radio

No single person has made more of an impact on the world than Jesus Christ. This would have been hard to say in AD85. But there is no question of it today. Jesus has affected our calendar, our language, our idioms, social mores, the treatment of women, charity, hospitals, economics, science, liberty, music, art, and the abolishment of chattel slavery. Kevin Swanson interviews Dr. Alvin Schmidt, the author of an eye-opening, landmark treatment of 2000 years of world history. Get your children listening to this one!

A thousand years from now, people will look back at this day in disbelief. It was the day that the Christian church reached the lowest possible depths of degradation. It is the day that the Presbyterian Church USA ordains a homosexual. What would the Christ of Revelation 2 and 3 think of this? Kevin Swanson addresses the two problems with the Christian church and the American people. We have lost truth and love in a lost and lonely world. Half the church is apostatizing (watering down truth and ethics to the lowest common denominator), and the other half can't love each other if it killed them.

Relevant Magazine reports on several studies looking at evangelical youth and fornication. They find that about 80% of young evangelicals fall into fornication against 88% for the broader population. Kevin Swanson provides counsel for young people who want to stay away from fornication. The program also addresses the ethical problems with sperm donations, as well as the Hillary Clinton-style safe sex programs in Africa.

Homeschoolers took 1st place in the Box Office last weekend, and Christians took 4th place! Christian themed movies are taking the box office by storm and have since roughly 2005. Is this a comeback for pro-family, pro-Christian, pro-homeschooling culture? Kevin Swanson interacts with homeschool father Carl Bobb on fiction, allegory, and story telling for the purpose of family edification. Is entertainment value legitimate? Where do our children get "lost in the metaphor?"

1950 - Dating 1970 - Shacking up 2010 - Hooking up Dating is passe today. It's so. . . so retro! Today, it is sex without relationship. Today, we do church without relationships. We do education without relationships. We do family without relationships. Why not sex without relationships? The world is lost, and lonely, and love-less. The world is killing human relationships, and creating hollowed out, self-oriented, narcissistic automatons. But we're actually recommending the abandonment of the unaccountable, dating system. We're going the opposite direction, entirely! We're talking about restoring family relationships - father-daughter relationships. 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.

For 5800 years of world history, fathers mentored their sons to take on their family businesses. But how would a son peel off a portion of his father's business and build his own family economy? These questions require a great deal of wisdom for fathers, especially in today's economy. Kevin Swanson interviews Wendell Sip on his successful family farm in Minnesota. What sort of character does it take to build a family farm from the bottom up? Wendell did it himself, and now he's working with his sons to repeat the process.

Those who have a vision for a nation with political freedoms like those first established in the American Republic would do well to teach their children the U.S. Constitution and the accompanying documents. Here we interview Mike Farris, president of Patrick Henry College and chairman of Homeschool Legal Defense Association has taught constitutional law for 20 years. Freedom may be taking a hiatus for a generation or two. But by God's grace, it's coming back. If it's going to come back, you had better leave a legacy of remembrance for your children and your children's children. Give them a solid understanding of the the U.S. Constitution.

81% of Americans are upset with their government, the highest percentage on record - far higher than 1974 (Watergate), and 2007 (GWB). The discontent is spreading, and there is no containing it. The gods of the modern humanist are falling hard. Finally, the American system is unraveling, and boy are they depressed. But we're not. While the rest of the world doesn't want to have children (because CNN tells us they cost $227,000 over 18 years), we're building family economic systems! We're having children for the glory of God! We're building local church communities. Kevin Swanson compares CNN numbers on having children to his own family's experience over the last 20 years, as he built a family economy and family ministries.

America is turning into the nation with the worst health, yet we certainly spend more money than any other nation (as a percentage of the GNI). We are in TERRIBLE SHAPE! Sadly, the obesity rate among Christians is not much different from that of the world around them – it is often even higher. Dr. Scott Stoll, author of the new book entitled Alive, 40 Days to Lifetime Health, explains the health basics for families who want to take better care of “the temple.”

The Gaystapo is on the march. Atheist leaders in Georgia demand the extermination of Christians. Bible Studies are shut down in California. It appears that the gloves are coming off, and the anti-Christian sentiment is growing everywhere. There is never neutrality between the world and Christ, and we're just waking up to the fact that detente is impossible. But what is the Christian response? The answers may surprise you, on this edition of Generations.