Generations Radio

Interview: Carol Barnier How do you teach a child with an impossibly short attention span? How do you get your child off the refrigerator into learning? This was a question that Carol Barnier faced with her son. When she and her husband couldn't bring themselves to medicate their ADHD-diagnosed child, particularly after his already long medical history of 13 surgeries, Carol found herself homeschooling. In this segment of the Generations Radio broadcast, Carol provides wonderful practical ideas when working with a specially gifted child - gifted with ADHD.

A New Paradigm for College Increasingly, many families have become disillusioned with college as a means of preparing their young people for the calling God has on their lives. It fails miserably in life integration, the honing of character, the maintenance of meaningful accountability systems, and the application of the disparate pieces of the education into the whole. Thus Christian Home Educators (in Colorado) has introduced an AME Program, geared to bring mentorship back into the college/corporate and entrepreneurial life tracks. Kevin Swanson interviews Director, Carl Bobb on this new exciting program that will not only vastly improve higher education, but rejuvenate family economic systems for the future of a nation.

Submission and Resistance What should you do when you disagree with a government policy? A listener asks whether opposing government on things like "homosexual marriage" is rebellion against God. Does God give the government license to do whatever it wants to do? Kevin Swanson walks through the various forms of tyranny, and then explains the biblical approach to civil resistance in this edition of Generations.

Giving your children the right view of life More important than the rising gas prices and failing economy ... more important than who gets elected president in 2008; more important than your last debate with an evolutionist. What are the most important things in life? Here, Kevin Swanson gives examples of a family who found out what God considers most important and gave their children a lesson on that during a trip to Zambia. What is life about? Doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before your God. Includes interviews with homeschool dads Jim Mill and Brent Nelson.

Fornication and Feminism The second Narnia tale produces another box office success. But twists in the tale taken to the silver screen seem to present an ulterior agenda. Is the director's intention behind such modifications to introduce the fornicating and feminist world and life view for the young viewers? Are PG movies more influential that R rated and X rated movies in formulating the worldviews by which hundreds of millions live their lives? And what is that worldview?

Arrested by the Cow Police A Mennonite farmer in Pennsylvania is arrested for selling unpasteurized milk, and Kevin Swanson admits that he drinks raw milk without divulging the name of the cow. Our forefathers were concerned about the tyranny of a state that imposed 29 cents of annual taxation upon the colonists. But now the character of the American people has changed dramatically, as they willingly bow to government control of every aspect of their lives, and a government that confiscates 50% of the wealth of the nation each year. Host Kevin Swanson presents a biblical approach to government regulation, drawing from the gross negligence principle of the bull that "pushes its horn." He makes the point that when men stray from the laws of God, inevitably they give way to tyranny and anarchy (usually simultaneously).

Sodom and AmericaThe Republican-appointees on the California Supreme Court legalized homosexual marriage, while the Democrat-controlled legislature in Colorado provide special rights to transvestites. Such social developments make it important for Christians to gain a wider biblical and historical view of empires and city states that fell into the sodomite lifestyle.Kevin Swanson gives a brief history of few periods in history where homosexuality and homosexual marriage made it out of the closet and gained a little social approval. He takes a look at the attempts to synthesize the Christian church with the homosexual lifestyle including the attempts at drawing distinctions between homosexuality and homosexualism. Because the roots of this problem are embedded in the failure of fatherhood,to preach the real Gospel in the churches, and the disintegration of the family, political solutions will be futile.

Vs. Al Gore and Jon Bon Jovi Over 31,000 scientists (9,000 of whom are PhD's in their respective scientific fields), have signed a petition calling the Global Warming policy recommendations proposed in the Kyoto Convention a "harm" to the environment, producing deleterious effects to the "health and welfare of mankind." This is far and away more of a consensus than anything that the Chicken Little crowd has collected for themselves. Granted, these 31,000 scientists disagree with Bill Nye the Science Guy, Jon Bon Jovi, John McCain, Al Gore, Matt Lauer, Katie Couric, and Ben Affleck. And we all know who the masses will listen to - the celebrities and politicians who love to create crises and present themselves as solutions. This edition of Generations looks at the concomitant rise of junk science with the failure to recognize God or fear God in scientific inquiry.

Heart-less, Love-less, Fatherless and Godless God's System of Loving Discipleship, and the Rod Child development theories taught in public universities today are heart-less, love-less, fatherless, and godless. They are diametrically opposed to God's theory on child development contained in the book of Proverbs. The Christian view of child raising involves relationships, families, love, and a focus on character and faith. These ideas are rejected outright by the secular state and the university programs that train child development experts and professional teachers. And it is destroying children and families by the millions.Here, Kevin Swanson provides a defense for love and discipline, as well as the proper use of the rod, from the book of Proverbs and Hebrews 12. He cautions Christian teachers and parents from the ungodly Child Development ideas conveyed in secular classrooms.

Interview: Dr. David Noebel In their own words, the organizers of the modern public school movement admit that these schools are temples and the religion is a secular humanism. Here is Charles Francis Potter: "Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?" Amen! We couldn't have said it better than this committed humanist, writing in his book "Humanism, a New Religion." It's just too bad that there are so few Christians that know about the clergy in the classroom. Listen to Dr. David Noebel's interview concerning his important book "Clergy in the Classroom, The Religion of Secular Humanism."