Generations Radio

Missing the Critical Element Too many parents take a look at a curriculum approach, flip through a few books, find some neat pictures and cute stories and use it for their children's academic training. Little do they know that powerful ideas are contained underneath the pages of those books. Little do they know that their children's worldview will be powerfully formed by those books. Second generation homeschooler, Israel Wayne talks about how important it is to consider worldview in the selection of an academic program for your children. He also challenges the notion of using a separate Bible program instead of integrating biblical epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics into every subject area you teach your children.

Heart Communication Over 150 years, modernism and post-modernism have produced a cold, institutionalized world that fragmented relationships, and families with shallow or dysfunctional relationships. The baby boom especially produced a generation where fathers simply would not, could not, and did not cultivate warm relationships with their children. To this generation, comes a concept from Greg Vaughan that is taking the nation by storm. Thousands of dads everywhere are learning to write meaningful, thoughtful, visionary, personal, and heart-filled letters to their daughters, son, wives, and parents. This little gesture is opening up hearts for the first time in generations! Dads especially, we dare you to listen to this program. Here's a little idea that may open up some relationships that have grown cold in your life.

How We Got Here Humanism has virtually killed the Christian faith in Europe, but a faithful remnant made it back into the war of the worldviews over the last two generations. Our backs are against the wall, but we are fighting back and gaining ground! But how did we get here? Kevin Swanson walks through the ten most impacting books written by Christians in the last 100 years, that represent a return to Christian thought in the war of the worldviews. The purpose of this program is to give some honor to men who went before us in the 1900s. These are the thinkers that gave returned the ideas of worldview, antithesis, and distinctive Christian thought while humanism was eroding the foundations, destroying the family in America, and fragmenting our culture.

Olympics 08 is slated for the People's Republic of China, and you need to sign that form promising you won't criticize the government, because there really is nothing to criticize you understand! Kevin Swanson challenges the notion that China is any less free than it was under Mao or the regime that brought about the Tienneman Square Massacre. Should we honor a nation that has yet to repent for the largest Democide in the history of the world. . . a nation that continues it's forced abortion and sterilization programs, not to mention Christian persecutions? Kevin Swanson suggests a boycott of the Olympics and support for Voice of the Martyrs China Bible program.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Kevin Swanson takes a biblical worldview perspective to the issue of "racial" distinctions and the "Bell Curve." Are blacks and Hispanics really less intelligent than whites on IQ tests? This leads to a discussion on multi-racial marriages, and the biblical support for it. God's law allows for maximum unity and maximum diversity in human community, and skin color is not much of a consideration. Nevertheless, there are compatibility issues. What happens when the man and woman hold to sharply different religious and political differences?

Courtship and Dads Just about every father of a daughter is going to hear those words some day. Kevin Swanson speaks to Henry Reyenga, pastor and home school father of five, on his daughter's recent courtship. Are the fathers of the brides setting their expectations too high for the prospective suitors? How does one properly evaluate the young man, and how much involvement is too much involvement? With the growing interest in proper courtship to produce stronger marriages among many families, we have seen a number of pitfalls and failures in process. These are discussed on this edition of the Generations broadcast.

Interview - Arnold Pent By the 1950s, any semblance of a biblical world and life view had well nigh disappeared from modern education and life. But deep in the wilderness of the modern world, several pioneering families broke free from the public schools to lay the foundations for the modern home schooling movement. What kind of pioneering spirit, what kind of vision would it take to make a decision to home school in the face of persecuting truant officers and against the entire cultural milieu of the day? Kevin Swanson interviews homeschooling father and grandfather, Arnold Pent on those early days of the modern home schooling movement. He is author of the book, "Ten Peas in a Pod," a book that tells this amazing story of a family who home schooled their ten children, while traveling around America in the 1950s.

The catalyst to any form of social revival has got to be leadership. But biblical leadership does not begin with a cadre of prima donnas who become the latest crop of social planners to staff the layers of state bureaucracies. Biblical leadership begins with fathers in the home. But it doesn't stop there. If you can get a few fathers who rule their households well, having believing children, then you'll begin to see leaders emerge who can rule in the household of God. For lack of leadership the people perish. How do we cultivate these leaders? Get a vision for godly leadership from this discussion with Henry Reyenga, pastor of Family of Faith Church and Director of Christian Leaders Institute.

Super Tuesday Tuesday marked the official end of conservatism, with only radical big government socialists at the front of the pack in the presidential race. George Barna's recent study found that born again Christians are voting Democrat this year. The winds have left the sails of the conservative movement. So why did conservatism die? Was it all George W. Bush's fault, or were there more fundamental problems with the country? With this edition of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson presents an agenda for winning and it has to do with the way we view losing!

Interview: David Feddes Kevin Swanson interviews David Feddes concerning the substance of his doctoral dissertation on the plight of Christian culture in the west. We explore the reasons for its sharp decline since the 1960s. . . no make that the 1760s. Was it the radical agenda borne by the educational establishment, or the compromise of the seminaries and the churches? How did we get to where we are today, and where do we go from here