Guys Doing 40 to Life Loving God and Their Kids
May 8, 2009
Malachi Dads with Vision in Prison
70% of inner city kids are born without fathers. And 85% of those incarcerated in America come from single-parent homes. If America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and children of incarcerated dads are 7X more likely to go to prison than other kids, then what do we have to look forward to in the next generation? Generational catastrophe!
In the ashes of this catastrophe, somebody is planting a garden. Somebody came up with the idea of bringing Malachi 4:6 into the most violent prisons in America. Kevin Swanson interviews Lyndon Azcuna, director of Awana's Lifeline program on this edition of Generations, in one of the most exciting interviews we've ever done. Guys doing 40 to life for armed robbery are loving their kids and teaching these precious children God's Word as they sit in a maximum security prison. Here is a beautiful message of reconciliation, fatherhood, discipleship, and God's grace.
70% of inner city kids are born without fathers. And 85% of those incarcerated in America come from single-parent homes. If America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and children of incarcerated dads are 7X more likely to go to prison than other kids, then what do we have to look forward to in the next generation? Generational catastrophe!
In the ashes of this catastrophe, somebody is planting a garden. Somebody came up with the idea of bringing Malachi 4:6 into the most violent prisons in America. Kevin Swanson interviews Lyndon Azcuna, director of Awana's Lifeline program on this edition of Generations, in one of the most exciting interviews we've ever done. Guys doing 40 to life for armed robbery are loving their kids and teaching these precious children God's Word as they sit in a maximum security prison. Here is a beautiful message of reconciliation, fatherhood, discipleship, and God's grace.
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Asylum in America
Occasionally, people still come to America for political asylum. This is the case with the Uwe Romike family, who escaped Germany for the intense persecution experienced by a few families there who have rejected a materialist worldview-indoctrination for their children. Apparently, schools in Germany are so naturalist and materialist in their metaphysics, they do not teach the children to fear God in the science classes – a fundamental constituent of a hard-edged secularism.
Kevin Swanson interviews attorney Mike Donelly and Christian father, Uwe Romike on this edition of Generations. Why would a man leave his motherland, his friends, and family over the matter of the education of his children? Is he overreacting, or is this an example of stalwart faith?
May 7, 2009
Hate Crimes Legislation
Kevin Swanson expresses disappointment with his Republican congressman who voted for a hate crimes bill that would imprison a pastor for "intimidating" somebody for their "sexual orientation." As a pastor himself who actually does refer to Leviticus or even Romans from time to time, Kevin grapples with the reality of persecution. But what is the first purpose of Christians who actually serve in government - to work for pro-life legislation, or protect God's people?
May 6, 2009
How Power Brokers Could Confiscate Private Property
Kevin Swanson plays the "If I were my evil nemesis" game, on this edition of Generation. Suppose somebody were interested in turning a free nation (like America, say), into a Marxist or a socialist country, what would they have to do? Put an entire economy under the control of the federal reserve system, and encourage as much debt as possibly by inflationary policies over about 80 years. Then in the ensuing depression, pull the deflationary rug out from under the enslaved debtors. Could it happen here? It's already happening. Brad Hamill joins Kevin Swanson in studio to give us a lesson in Economics 101 on this edition of Generations.
May 5, 2009
One More Way to Re-integrate the Family
The only way that socialism prevailed was by the unraveling of the family unit, and this occurred by way of the educational and economic milieu of the previous six generations. The social context drives the political. But a rising minority of families are reacting strongly against these socio-economic trends, and bringing moms home. . .and they're bringing dads home too.
Kevin Swanson interviews home school veteran Bob Farewell on their family's experience traveling the United States in the 1980s and 1990s in an entrepreneurial endeavor that reintegrated one family in an amazing way.
May 4, 2009
Propping up the Character of a Nation
One public school in South Carolina still offers spanking as one of its services available to the students. If you were a principal of a public school, how would you salvage the character of a nation? As long as we’re in the business of delegating everything, does delegating discipline to a state-sponsored "spanking police" make sense? Would anything compensate for the failure of parenting? Kevin Swanson interacts with the question of biblical discipline and he struggles with whether a bureaucrat really loves our children as much as we do.
May 1, 2009
Maximum Liberty in God’s Law Order
We don't feel the need to put seven-year-old boys in boxes, bolt them to chairs and force them into book study for 5-6 hours a day. Nor do we particularly like the idea of enslaving our daughters to corporate slave mills or socialist systems. But if you want to send your children to a conventional classroom occasionally, or take in a brick-and-mortar college education, go for it. Just try not to sacrifice your liberties in the process, and obliterate the vision God has laid out in His Word for your sons and daughters in the process.
April 30, 2009
Reformation 500
John Calvin is a giant in history whose ideas and influence spanned half a millennium and a handful of continents. He may be the most hated, the most loved, the most influential, and the most caricaturized man in 500 years of world history. No other person influenced the English puritans and separatists, the Scottish Presbyterians, the Dutch Reformed, the French Huguenots, and the American colonies as much as this man. He celebrates his 500th birthday this year, and Douglas Phillips from Vision Forum joins us on this edition of Generations to commemorate this significant event.
April 29, 2009
How We Got to this Point
Why would parents send their children to schools in California where anything close to a biblical position on homosexuality is forbidden by law? How did we get from America's first reader which began with "In Adam's Fall, We Sinned All," to the modern reader "Heather has Two Daddys?" Kevin Swanson - Host of Generations - takes you through the history of the decline of curriculum used in American schools that slowly transitioned from a God-centered view of reality and truth to a man-centered, humanist worldview. And think of all of the good parents who stayed on the slide the whole way down.
April 28, 2009
Interview: David McAlvany
Kevin Swanson interviews economist and investor, David McAlvany on the present economic condition in this country. Shall we look for continuing deflation or hyperinflation? Will deflation and high unemployment lead to more loan defaults? Or will the federal reserve be pressed to hyper inflate the economy? Or will we see the worse of both worlds? The clouds are gathering, and although there are no prophets here, what we have may be "a perfect storm."
April 27, 2009
Two problems: No Faith and no Works
Evangelical Christians are more likely to get a divorce than Jews. And more Catholics find homosexuality and children born out of wedlock morally acceptable than the wider population. The parking lots fill up on Easter, but the faith is dissipating and the salt has lost its savor. At what point are we just faking this religion thing? At what point has the faith died? The answer is simple - when it is separated from works. Kevin Swanson presents a simple gospel message on this edition of Generations.
April 24, 2009
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