Generational Discontinuity in America
February 29, 2008
Want to Get Your Children Saved?
With the last generation, the Catholics lost a full 1/3 of their adherents, and the Protestants didn't do much better. That according to a major study conducted on religion in America just released.
Generational continuity of the faith is dissipating quickly in Europe and America. In this issue of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson grapples with why the Deuteronomy 6:7 vision is abhorrent to Catholics and unpopular among Protestants.
Generational continuity does not happen much anymore. Presbyterians think they can throw a little water on the heads of their kids and toss them into public schools for a humanist indoctrination. Then you have Baptist parents who shoot for a one-time emotional conversion experience from their children, sans 30,000 hours of Deuteronomy 6:7 discipleship. How do children get saved? The superficial, just-add-water-and-microwave-it-for-30-minutes form of evangelism doesn't work.
With the last generation, the Catholics lost a full 1/3 of their adherents, and the Protestants didn't do much better. That according to a major study conducted on religion in America just released.
Generational continuity of the faith is dissipating quickly in Europe and America. In this issue of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson grapples with why the Deuteronomy 6:7 vision is abhorrent to Catholics and unpopular among Protestants.
Generational continuity does not happen much anymore. Presbyterians think they can throw a little water on the heads of their kids and toss them into public schools for a humanist indoctrination. Then you have Baptist parents who shoot for a one-time emotional conversion experience from their children, sans 30,000 hours of Deuteronomy 6:7 discipleship. How do children get saved? The superficial, just-add-water-and-microwave-it-for-30-minutes form of evangelism doesn't work.
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Global Kooling or Global Warming?
After the coldest winter in decades (maybe even a century), the guys from the Generations broadcast grapple with whether it's time to change Chicken Little's placard from "Global Warming" to "Global Kooling." We are not sure we're keeping up with the en vogue issue-of-the-day. Would somebody please just tell us when we're supposed to get hysterical and give us a reason while you're at it? Kevin Swanson grapples with the psychological reasoning behind these false-problems and fake-solutions that seem to mark progressive big-government socialism.
Then, in response to a listener's question, Kevin explains the differences between the modern socialist worldview that dominates most western countries, the libertarianism of the likes of Ayn Rand, and a biblical approach that balances the one and the many by the law of the One and the Many.
February 28, 2008
Gas prices are on the rise, and the median individual income is on the decline in America. That means the average fellow is making less money (adjusted for inflation) than he was in 1969. If you adjust for tax increases, he's making far less than he was in 1969. In order to maintain the standard of living, families responded by sending wives to work and taking on more household debt.
Kevin Swanson addresses the cause of this economic down turn from a biblical perspective. He interacts with the Marxist "solution" of class envy, redistribution of the wealth, and the graduated income tax. Then, he suggests the biblical solutions.
February 27, 2008
Building a Christian Folk Culture
On the eternal search for wholesome music that presents the noble themes of honor of parents, love of children, and family relationships, Kevin Swanson collects a few examples from the 1950s, 1980s, and 1990s. He caps the program with an interview with a terrific musician of the present decade - Nathan Clark George. Featuring a few of Nathan's beautiful ballads, this program will warm the cockles of your soul.
February 26, 2008
The Proverbs 31 Vision
An AP story correlates the breakdown of marriage in America and the rise of the career woman. A great deal of the blame for the breakdown of the family in America must be placed at the feet of corporations and businesses. For families caught in this corporate family-fragmenting culture, where the wives must work in the corporate market, Kevin Swanson issues warnings and provides some valuable pointers. He also discusses how private companies and ministries that hire employees can protect the integrity of the family in their business practices. A critical program for the salvaging of the family in the 21st century.
February 25, 2008
America Worse Than Rome
What if you woke up and found yourself in a tyranny that was 10 times the size of the Roman Empire in its purview and tax rates? What if you saw freedoms slipping, the family dying, and the tyranny of government funding immorality? What if 99% of the people around you were entirely unconcerned about it? What would you do?
Kevin Swanson looks at the last 100 years of social and political trends in America, and describes this rising tyranny. Then, he begins to chart a course for the future that returns hope for our future generations of children and grandchildren.
February 22, 2008
Are you ready for the Second Mayflower?
Whether the next president of the United States is Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, or the other socialist, it should be pretty clear to anybody with a biblical worldview that this nation is headed in the wrong direction.
So what happens to a nation that has lost its moorings, lost its founding principles, lost its family integrity, lost its morality, and lost its freedoms? What will happen to America? Here Kevin Swanson, author of the just-released, "Second Mayflower," grapples with the future of a nation that forgot God. Kevin presents three possible scenarios for the future of the nation, but challenges the listening audience to get on board The Second Mayflower. Although we may be facing dark days ahead, this program will give you reasons for hope.
February 20, 2008
Missing the Critical Element
Too many parents take a look at a curriculum approach, flip through a few books, find some neat pictures and cute stories and use it for their children's academic training. Little do they know that powerful ideas are contained underneath the pages of those books. Little do they know that their children's worldview will be powerfully formed by those books.
Second generation homeschooler, Israel Wayne talks about how important it is to consider worldview in the selection of an academic program for your children. He also challenges the notion of using a separate Bible program instead of integrating biblical epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics into every subject area you teach your children.
February 19, 2008
Heart Communication
Over 150 years, modernism and post-modernism have produced a cold, institutionalized world that fragmented relationships, and families with shallow or dysfunctional relationships. The baby boom especially produced a generation where fathers simply would not, could not, and did not cultivate warm relationships with their children.
To this generation, comes a concept from Greg Vaughan that is taking the nation by storm. Thousands of dads everywhere are learning to write meaningful, thoughtful, visionary, personal, and heart-filled letters to their daughters, son, wives, and parents. This little gesture is opening up hearts for the first time in generations! Dads especially, we dare you to listen to this program. Here's a little idea that may open up some relationships that have grown cold in your life.
February 18, 2008
How We Got Here
Humanism has virtually killed the Christian faith in Europe, but a faithful remnant made it back into the war of the worldviews over the last two generations. Our backs are against the wall, but we are fighting back and gaining ground! But how did we get here?
Kevin Swanson walks through the ten most impacting books written by Christians in the last 100 years, that represent a return to Christian thought in the war of the worldviews.
The purpose of this program is to give some honor to men who went before us in the 1900s. These are the thinkers that gave returned the ideas of worldview, antithesis, and distinctive Christian thought while humanism was eroding the foundations, destroying the family in America, and fragmenting our culture.
February 15, 2008
Olympics 08 is slated for the People's Republic of China, and you need to sign that form promising you won't criticize the government, because there really is nothing to criticize you understand!
Kevin Swanson challenges the notion that China is any less free than it was under Mao or the regime that brought about the Tienneman Square Massacre. Should we honor a nation that has yet to repent for the largest Democide in the history of the world. . . a nation that continues it's forced abortion and sterilization programs, not to mention Christian persecutions? Kevin Swanson suggests a boycott of the Olympics and support for Voice of the Martyrs China Bible program.
February 14, 2008
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