Doing the Hard Work
How do you put a broken society full of broken families back together again? It would be easy if you could toss the single moms on to the government welfare programs, and toss their kids into the pagan, public schools that refuse to teach the beginning of knowledge is the fear of God. Plan B is a tougher row to hoe.
And you can't do it with a church full of single moms and disengaged dads.
A couple of engaged dads in studio - Bob Fine, Dave Buehner, and Kevin Swanson talk to the challenge they have faced over the last nine years working with single moms of faith, who are willing to deal with the spiritual issues and practical issues important in reconstructing their lives (by the power of God).
This "divorce recovery workshop" involves the tough life of repentance, humility, and godly submission.
July 14, 2009
How to Govern a Nation in Decline
Kevin Swanson interacts with Governor Sarah Palin's resignation speech, and commends her for her actions. Societies (families, churches, nations, whatever) led by women are societies in decline.
But back to the more serious question, "How does one govern a nation in decline?" The first thing you do is go home and raise a godly family and protect your little girls from the Levi Johnstons of the world.
July 13, 2009
Falling Stars
The pop culture is rotting quickly. It didn't really last that long. Here Kevin Swanson traces the rise and the fall of pop culture, from Beethoven to Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson and finally down to Eminem.
Kevin makes the point that social systems drive cultural expressions. Almanzo Wilder would have had Michael Jackson committed to an insane asylum. Over the last 100 years, the teen social life, the disintegrated family, the city life, the fornicating, unaccountable hook-ups and one-night-stands, eventually produced a form of culture that accommodated the social system we had made for ourselves.
But the end of this culture is in sight. Then what?
July 10, 2009
Bringing a Real Solution to the Problem
Of all of the problems that face our culture today, there is probably none so serious as the lack of manhood and biblical fatherhood. According to Newsweek Magazine, 70% of young men are not grown up at 30 years of age (and that's up from 30% in 1970). Here are a couple of dads that are determined to do something about it. Kevin Swanson and MIke Cheney discuss the benefits and the challenges of mentorships and apprenticeships. The AME Program has been operational for one year now, and the revival of this age-old system is materializing. With the decline of education, as well as the economics and the character of a nation, there has never been a more important time for men to step up and agree to mentor young men!
July 9, 2009
An Interview with Ken Ham
An extensive study of the 20-something crowd finds that those who were raised in conservative churches and Sunday Schools are MORE likely to doubt the Bible, approve of pre-marital sex, abortion, and macro-evolutionary theories! Going to church will harden you against God? Would it have been better if they had never gone to Sunday School? In this ground-breaking interview on the Generations Radio broadcast, Ken Ham describes a deadly recipe for apostasy that includes the combination of a secular worldview, a compromising church, and massive abdication of parental responsibilities. The fact of the matter is that America is in apostasy, and the vast majority of the nation’s children and grandchildren will reject the God of the Bible. And if you still believe the Bible, you know that apostates do not go to heaven.
July 8, 2009
Our Collapsing National Integrity and You
Kevin and Dave try to name a major national conservative leader who does not have a daughter who is a lesbian, has not had an affair, has not tapped a shoe in an MSP airport restroom stall, etc. The Moral Integrity of the nation is collapsing. Yet, our leaders are only a reflection of us.
This program gets into the nuts and bolts of what to do when a husband has committed adultery, or a child has fallen into fornication, or drunkenness, or . . . Drawing from the book of Proverbs, we hold that prevention is always the best strategy. Of course, repentance is always essential, for the sanctification and renewal of all areas of our lives.
July 6, 2009
Church Freedoms and Family Freedoms
Our forefathers went to war over 27 cents of annual taxation, and now we bow to government taxing the citizens up to 60% of the Gross National Income, and the National Debt obligating each family in America to the tune of $1,000,000 plus.
The freedoms held dear by those that fought hard included primarily freedom for the church to operate free from the regulatory influences of the state. Of course the church is pretty irrelevant to most people today, so they would hardly hold this freedom sacrosanct anymore.
But now the battle has shifted to the sphere of the family. Of course the family is pretty irrelevant to most people today, so they would hardly hold parental rights sacrosanct anymore. Kevin Swanson also challenges the listening audience to a new battle for freedom, over the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
July 3, 2009
Who Owns the Children?
Kevin Swanson points out that the child labor laws and the accompanying unraveling of the family oikonomia (economic systems), have all worked to produce a nation where 70% of young men are not grown up by 30 years of age (per Newsweek magazine).Where families once functioned as families, the corporations enriched themselves on enslaving the children (and the parents), until the children were turned over to the government. The same thing is happening now to healthcare. Our healthcare decisions were turned over to corporations, and now the corporations are turning them back over to the government in the form of socialist healthcare. This is HOW millions of families are turned over to the governance of total socialism. Kevin argues that a biblical worldview empowers the family, while a socialist worldview centralizes power and turns all power over to the centralized state.
July 2, 2009
Interview: N.D. Wilson
On this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson interviews N.D. Wilson, Christian author of several popular novels, addressing important questions like, what is a bad book? What is the difference between witchcraft and what Elijah or Moses were doing in the Old Testament? If we were Trinitarian Christians and believed in God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility, might this affect the stories we write?
June 30, 2009