Generations Radio

Antinomianism, Pacifism, and God's Law Wednesday is National Blasphemy Day, and Americans are choosing to blaspheme against the God who made heaven and earth. Kevin Swanson points out that blasphemy laws are always in effect. If you commit blasphemy or treason against the United States of America by taking on the statist social order, you might could easily wind up in jail. Not many Americans would want to offend the state in that way, but they think nothing of blaspheming the name of God, and His Son, our Lord Christ. If we see all of the world as the kingdom of Christ, then we are bound to bring biblical law to bear in all areas of life including education, marriage, business, the military, and politics. In one of our most eye-opening programs, Kevin contrasts pacifism and an antinomian involvement in the world, with a biblical view of life.

A First Hand Report Perhaps the greatest irony of our time is the concomitant growth in the Chinese Christian church with the steady decline and apostasy seen in the church in Europe and America. Over 100 million Christians meet for worship in homes, caves, and fields around China, all under the threat of persecution in some form or another. But they also face the 1 child policy, forced abortions, opposition to homeschooling their children, and prosecution of evangelistic efforts. These believers doggedly oppose the law, and many refuse to submit to the regulatory requirements of the state-governed 3 Self church. A man on the ground over there joins us in studio to give us a first hand account of the faith, the courage, the temptations, and the challenges facing our brothers and sisters in the house church movement in China.

Interview: Hal and Melanie Young So I'm supposed to take this 12 year old boy still chasing frogs, teasing his sister, falling out of trees, and wiping his nose with the back of his hand, and make him into a grown man who one day will be flying a 747 with 300 lives in his hands? It's hard to picture these boys turning into men, but it doesn't happen automatically. Hal and Melanie Young, parents of six red-blooded, bouncing off the ceiling, American boys provide some heart-warming advice for raising boys to be real men.

Interview: Lila Rose Planned Parenthood is the most powerful abortion provider and abortion lobby in the world. A billion dollar organization, about 1/3 of its income comes from our tax dollars. But one little homeschooled girl found five smooth stones down at the brook, and tossed one at the giant, just to see what would happen. Lila Rose is part of a team of young pro-lifers who have found a way to strip the facade off of the Planned Parenthood organization to show its true colors, and its support for eugenicist practices and other illegal perversions. In one of the most important battles of our day, these pro-lifers demonstrate dogged persistence, strong convictions, and true courage. Every now and then you find some kid who picks up a stone saying, "I wonder what would happen if I. . ."

Disillusioned with this Church Thing Vast numbers of Americans are disillusioned with the church thing. Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham's daughter) is pretty fed up with it, and has written a book questioning the viability of church for Christians. In the immortal words of the folk musician, Don Williams, "I don't believe that heaven waits, for only those who congregate. . ." These are pretty important questions in a world where family, faith, and community are fast disintegrating. Kevin Swanson gets down the basics in this program. What is a Christian? Does the church play into it at all? Whatever happened to Christian love and brotherhood in an indvidualized society where the faith was boiled down to an inner experience between me and Jesus?

Leaving the System Are we stuck in a socialist system, like Pooh in the hole? Must we raise our children in socialist schools, send them to socialist, government-funded colleges, take socialist social security, sign up for socialist medicine, and die euthanized like a socialist pig? The Amish provide an interesting, quaint example to the world of a people that refused to amalgamate into the statist system. While their jurisdictional balance fails to respect the family as well as ours does, there are some terrific lessons we can learn from these fine people. Kevin Swanson provides a snapshot of a people that refused Social Security in the 1950s and won. Here's a terrific program on how to leave the system without turning out the lights!

Fascism vs. Communism The good Senator Bauchus prefers a Fascist economic solution, while Obama continues to advocate a communist socialist solution to our health care system. We're thinking a biblical approach to economics and politics might be wiser than what Marx and friends advocate. Kevin Swanson speaks to the purpose of the Civil Magistrate biblically speaking, and then explains why men always gravitate towards slave-based systems (whether in local fief-doms or in large centralized tyrannies.)

Rebellion Lite It was the decade of Mickey Spillane novels, Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole, Leave it to Beaver, Executive Order 10450, Panty Raids in the colleges, girls in bikinis without the tattoo on the behind, and Dr. Spock. The 1950s set the groundwork for the destruction of family and culture that came in the 1960s and later. Kevin Swanson traces social trends from the 1680s into the present day, showing the 1950's as the bend in the curve towards Gomorrah. But what can we learn from those who preferred rebellion lite? Kevin Swanson draws important generational lessons from a decade that preferred their rebellion in small increments.

Salvaging Civilization The fellows from Generations have a good laugh at the sting operation conducted by a homeschooled girl from Florida that brought ACORN down. Young women from homeschools are making an impact everywhere. Yet all of this is still more duct tape on the Titanic. As we face the most serious generational apostasy we have seen in 2000 years, we’re not going to salvage the faith with a revamped Vacation Bible School program in the local church. We're not going to save the collapsing family in the west with a 20 minute family time on Friday night. And we're not going to save our Republic from a rapidly-growing socialism and the dissolution of family and freedoms with a hockey mom from Alaska who herself has a child with another child born out of wedlock. Kevin Swanson talks real solutions for salvaging some kind of society for future generations. You do not want to miss this episode of Generations!

The Reduction of Christianity Christian parents send their kids to public school because they draw distinctions between parenting (discipleship) and education. What possible harm can the schools do to their minds, since the Christian faith has nothing to say about stuff like science, history, economics, or even education for that matter! Once you separate the fear of God from knowledge, you don't have to worry about what kind of "education" you give your kids! It's easy. Just separate character from math, the fear of God from science, and you're there. This reveals a fundamental flaw with the modern "Christian" faith that presages the complete loss of the faith. Kevin Swanson explains this dualism with several examples on this edition of Generations.