Generations Radio

Attacks on Homeschools and Christian Education Several important court battles will impact the future of Christian home schooling and Christian schools in California. Christians are awaiting decisions from an appellate court on the Long case. A February decision that effectively illegalized home education in California is now being reheard by the same court. Meanwhile, another California court deliberates on the part of the admissions departments of the University of California efforts to disqualify Christian high school curriculum. This decision will effect home schools and Christian school students in that state, and establish precedent elsewhere. Homeschool Legal Defense Association President, Mike Smith wades in on the issue of education freedoms on this issue of Generations. After 25+ years in the battle, Mike provides an overview of the present situation, and we discover that the battle for freedom may never end.

Hope and Life for the Abused IMPORTANT: This Program not Intended for Children The breakdown of the family, the stripping back of sexual mores, and the widespread accessibility of web-based porn have all contributed to massive increases in child sexual abuse in recent decades. With estimates of child sexual abuse now as high as 25-35%, Christian churches and families must take this into consideration as they work to rebuild lives, marriages, and family. Keith Dorscht from Biblical Concepts in Counseling points out the path of recovery for the victims of sexual abuse. For those parents facing the sad circumstance of sexual abuse will find this program helpful as they guide their children down this path of hope and freedom from guilt and shame.

Inlaws and Outlaws Worldviews and values often collide when we get together with relatives. How does one witness to unbelieving relatives? And at what point are you casting "pearls before swine?" It's hard enough to work through conflict with believers, but what happens when you find yourself engaged in conflict with an unbelieving relatives? Sensible, wise advice in this segment of Generations for those families who face conflict, unsavory influences, or even persecution from relatives and other acquaintances.

Powerful Ideas that Kill With the culture in the death throes of nihilism and the family and faith waning in the western world, blame has yet to be assigned. Ideas have consequences, and Europe and America are suffering the consequences. But who are the Idea Men that systematically dismantled the faith and culture of the west? Kevin Swanson makes a list of the five most influential men of the last 200 years in this broadcast. From historical patterns, he demonstrates how the breakdown of social and political institutions follow closely upon the breakdown of philosophical systems to a godless and purposeless nihilism. But not all is lost! While Christian thought was heavily synthesized throughout the 19th century, by the 1950s and 1960s Christian thinkers returned to the war of the worldviews. Competent apologists who were willing to engage the antithesis at the most fundamental levels, rejected all calls for détente. The villains and the heroes are cataloged in this program.

When Ms. Diversity Meets Mr. JihadThe humanist universities in the UK are getting sick of celebrating diversity. When all the infidels found out that fully 1/3 of the Muslim students on 20 campuses are A-OK with killing the infidel, it put a damper on the whole diversity celebration thing. Why can't all the atheists, the Sharia-law toting Muslims, the Christians, and the Wiccan human sacrifice enthusiasts all get along in the same pluralist state? When we discover that is impossible to create a pluralist state where all religions get along, that's when we begin to note a rise in civil unrest and increase in the power of the state to keep the whole mess together. Tyranny and anarchy play off of each other, until the system breaks down. Kevin Swanson explains how the Christian country has always maximized freedom, provided peaceful trade with nations of other religious perspectives, and balanced unity and diversity by the law system of a God who is One and Three.

Cutting Back The price of homes has quadrupled since 1970, and the square footage has almost doubled. Household debt is soaring. Is there any wonder why America is practically bankrupt, and the real estate market is in crisis? But never worry! The feds are cranking out a $25 billion dollar rescue bill to save us again. We're not sure where the money is coming from, but we're guessing it will be more debt! Nevertheless, there are a few of us out here that have abandoned the materialistic-frenzied, debt-saturated rat race, and are living the simple life. The good life. The God-blessed life of being content with a little food and raiment, a debt free existence, a modest home, a bunch of kids, and family worship. We're living the other worldview on this program.

How God Wants Us to Vote Conservatives are disillusioned and discouraged. More than any other recent presidential election, they are disunified on the Republican candidate. And the Democrat candidate is the first pro-infanticide candidate to run for political office. So they don't like that guy much either. Kevin Swanson tries to assemble a few reasons to vote for John McCain but has a hard time whipping up much enthusiasm in that order. It's sort of hard to figure out who should preside over the continued amassing of political tyranny and the breakdown of a society. But more importantly, what does God think about our political priorities? How does God want us to vote?

Divorce, Custody, and the Breakdown of the Family In the bloody battles surrounding the breakdown of the family in the modern age, there is plenty of blame to go around. Presiding over the entire mess is the worldview promulgated by our ideological systems of public schools, universities, and media. But the world is also constructed of tiny moments filled with tiny people making many tiny choices that serve to unravel our social institutions. Kevin Swanson assigns blame in fornication and divorce, and then constructs a biblical argument for who gets the kids in a custody battle. Have fathers been disenfranchised over the last three generations of divorce proceedings? In the outside chance that you had a righteous judge in America, how would he rule in a custody battle? In the midst of the chaos and destruction, here is a sane voice offering the simple standards of God's Word as a great place to start rebuilding the broken walls.

Should Christians Listen To It? It's not wrong to sing about work, love, fathers, mothers, war, death, pain, crime, gunfights, babies, beaches, and trees. In fact, we should sing about these things. Be careful. Kevin Swanson reviews the top 5 songs in the nation, and finds lesbianism, animalistic sex, narcissism, one night stands, and other pure forms of unadulterated trash. Then he turns to the top 5 country western songs in the nation, and finds the good, the bad, and the ugly. Kevin urges careful discernment when it comes to music for our families, because this is what will solidify our children's world and life view. Be careful to consider the social context of the songs and the redemptive elements or lack thereof. As the music gets darker, and the descriptions of fallen, hell-bound man become increasingly stark, how does a Christian listen to it? How can he enjoy it? Important answers to these highly-relevant issues contained on this issue of Generations.

Abandoning Rationality Evolution can't answer any basic questions about origins, can't provide a viable mechanism for evolutionary speciation, and doesn't conform to the scientific method, but we're all supposed to believe it anyway! Now evolutionists are all upset over a bill signed into law in Louisiana allowing for critical thinking and intelligent discussion in public schools concerning "scientific" issues like evolution, global warming, and human cloning. Relying heavily on pejorative, ad-hominem attacks, rather than meaningful discussions, evolutionists continue to deny creationists any access to the public form. In this edition of Generations, we unravel a Scientific American article that attempts to address the creationists' arguments against macro-evolution.