Generations Radio

Time to Get Serious I'm a Dad. My son is 17 and he's very interested in business. He's already had 3-4 small businesses up and running. But he needs good training, and I'm not interested in a sub-standard college education. And I'm not sure that sending him fulltime to college at a bill of $80,000 is worth it, particularly with the rapidly-changing business economy we are facing. Wade Meyers, president of Venture Academy, 5X CEO, and consummate entrepreneur presents some wise advice for our young graduates as they head towards creating a family economy. How do you prepare your children for business success in today's volatile economy? Wade shares a number of basic concepts that every family should know, and then suggests a better way to prepare your children for the economic calling God has for them.

The Blobbiness of Family So modern man is lonely. He has abandoned covenant relationship of family and church, for individuation and socialism. How has Christian individualistic theology contributed to this humanistic sociology? Kevin Swanson demonstrates from Old and New Testament alike that God relates to families and treats family as corporeal bodies. Here is the theology that forms the foundational perspective of this broadcast.

Why there are no teenagers in our home On October 12, 1944, 30,000 frenzied girls rush into Times Square when they heard that one, Frank Sinatra was about to make an appearance. After a long period of gestation, the age of teenage was birthed. Kevin Swanson reviews Jon Savage's recent book "Teenage," the definitive history of the rise of youth culture in the west. Kevin also explains why this odd phenomena fails to appear in his own home, despite the fact he has three children between 13 and 17.

Five Children Under Seven Mothering is tough dominion work. Families that choose to jettison birth control, home school their children, and rely on a single income face some pretty big challenges. It would probably be easier if mom could get a nice little corporate job and send the kids off to school. Kevin Swanson talks about those tough early years on this edition of Generations, and encourages Dads with a few things they can do to make the load a little lighter on their wives.

Agreeable Disagreement As it turns out, not everybody is going to agree on everything in this world. But how you express your disagreement really matters. We might be somewhat public in our disagreement with King Herod or the President of the United States. But would it be appropriate for a Christian brother to rent a little space on a billboard on the electronic highway or any other highway, to let everybody know that, "Billy Graham is a big, fat Pelagian and I disagree with him"? The way that Christians go at each other, you wonder if the world can tell that we are Jesus' disciples? Disagreement calls for maturity, wisdom, gentleness, humility, and love - and this is a monumental challenge for all of us.

When You Love Children In a pro-death, existentialist society -- people are caught in a catch 22. If the baby in the womb is really a child, you should probably grieve with the parent. But what if the parent doesn't think it's a child, then should you not grieve? Is the existence of a child merely a construct of the imagination? But you see, our worldview rejects this existentialist nonsense. We live in a different world. We actually love children and count them a blessing. In this edition of Generations, we talk with a family who actually loves children! Ron and Nancy Gibas share their own experience with miscarriage, their love for precious life, and their grief in the face of death. How you treat a miscarriage will have a great deal to do with how you respect human life.

Bondage-2017? Great nations rise and fall as the people move from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. But what happens when a democratic republic learns that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury? Dependence and bondage on a macro scale. There is a simple solution to this predicament which can be implemented at any time. Kevin Swanson finds a simple biblical solution in Ephesians 4:28.

A Cultural Coup Two young filmmakers make a major splash at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, capturing both the Audience Choice Award and the Best of Festival $101,000 Grand Prize. Kevin Swanson interviews young filmmakers, John Moore (19) and David Heustis (20) on their recent major motion picture production, Widow's Might.

The Decentralization of the Media This will be the year that many of the major media sources will disappear (after a 100-year heyday for centralized, liberal media.) So Generations Host, Kevin Swanson does a little dance on the grave. Little guys broadcasting from the basements now reach 80+ countries around the world, and they might even be able to slip in a little truth here and there. Sitting here at the hind end of 800 years of another age of empires, the world is poised to enter another era of decentralization not unlike that seen between 475 AD and 1175 AD. In this cutting-edge broadcast addressing present socio-economic trends, Kevin Swanson suggests that it is time to build our own culture, our own communities, our own privatized welfare programs, our own entertainment, and media.

Why we Couldn't Be More Optimistic It's the worst rise in unemployment since 1945. And we just faced the worst annualized drop in the stock market since 1932. We're shaping up for a "perfect storm." Comparing ourselves with FDR's scenario, we're facing 10X the debt, 3X the socialism, far less global economic resilience, far less room to grow on technological productivity, and far less national character than anything FDR had to work with. Sorry BO. But Kevin Swanson couldn't be more optimistic! Every breakdown affords an opportunity for rebuilding. With the reshuffling of the economic deck of cards, we're going to start asking some of the basic questions, like -- is it really worth it to spend $80 grand on your kid's secular college education, so he can graduate with a 10% chance at a $32K a year job?