Generations Radio

Family Bands on the Comeback When a family lives in harmony and sings in harmony, it demonstrates an outstanding testimony to a fragmented, dysfunctional world. Family bands are coming back, and the wholesome, beautiful entertainment produced by these families is refreshing. Listen to this inspiring interview with Christina Emmons (with father Richard) from the Emmons Sister Band, and Zach Lautenschlager from Heirs of Baird.

Working on the Shamefacedness Thing Some girl from a beauty contest in a bikini on national television says she doesn't like homosexual marriage, thereby causing a bit of furor from people who like homosexual marriages. But what about all the guys out there that don't like homosexual marriage, but they sure do like to gawk at girls in bikinis talking about how they don't like homosexual marriage? A lot of interesting things seem to mark the trail to Gomorrah. But there are still a few fathers out there who think there may be something to those old principles of purity, modesty, and shamefacedness contained in that old, tattered, forgotten book in the corner over there. Would I really want my daughter touting her features on the cover of Playboy or Cosmo or the Miss USA pageant? There's a question every father better ask himself.

A Pot of Pourri Hillary Clinton gets the Margaret Sanger Award, in fond memories of the great legacy of the world's most famous eugenicist. Clinton expressed deep appreciation for Sanger's vision, which envisioned the elimination of "human weeds," creating "a race of thoroughbreds." The Church of Scotland, with a little help from their scientist friends explain why God got it all wrong with this homosexual business. Then, Kevin Swanson and the President work on cutting 1/35,000th of the 2010 FY budget. Kevin and Dave take a look into several zoo exhibits on this edition of Generations.

Legal Considerations for your Estate The Proverb "A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children," is a far cry from the RV's running around the country bearing the bumper sticker, "I'm spending my children's inheritance." With this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson interviews Von Limbaugh, an estate attorney who reviews some of the legal ins and outs of leaving an inheritance, AND protecting that inheritance from law suits or taxes.

And Five that Didn’t Help So China has a 40 million male surplus, and 95% of men in prisons in this country were raised without fathers. Thanks to the social planners and the philosophers of previous generations, we're now inheriting the whirlwind. For the frogs who want to know how they made it into this boiling pot of water, Benjamin Wiker has written a helpful little book: Ten Books that Screwed Up the World and Five that Didn't Help. Kevin Swanson reviews the book on this segment of Generations.

Breaking out of a Socio-Academic System We are up against so much state-oriented indoctrination, an institutionalized, hard-core materialist metaphysical worldview, that the Gospel will hardly penetrate anymore. Not many wise men after the flesh will make it out of the system. In the words of J. Gresham Machen. . ."False ideas are the greatest obstacles to the reception of the gospel. We may preach with all the fervor of a reformer and yet succeed only in winning a straggler here and there, if we permit the whole collective thought of the nation or of the world to be controlled by ideas which, by the resistless force of logic, prevent Christianity from being regarded as anything more than a harmless delusion. Under such circumstances, what God desires us to do is to destroy the obstacle at its root." And that is what this program is trying to do.

Interview: R.C. Sproul A well-constructed theology of the family is vitally important, especially in a day where the family has pretty well broken down in the western world. Kevin Swanson interviews R.C. Sproul Jr. on his book, Bound for Glory.

How to Handle Persecution Precious few Christians are actually persecuted in America for their faith. Those that get the most flak are usually the ones who stand up against naturalistic evolution in university science classrooms. Occasionally, a few despised wretches will catch some flak when they oppose the materialist, me-centered, existentialist age, by birthing 14 children and bringing mom home from the corporate slave-mill to homeschool the kids. A new book serves as an "expose" for this scary movement of. . . real, live Christians.

Interview: Michael Spencer "The End of Christian America," headlines the front cover of Newsweek Magazine this week. Christian leaders rush to explain the cause of the failure of Christianity in the west. Any and all concerned are clawing for some substantial handhold, some piece of "relevant" Christianity, some kind of meaningful Christian relationships, or some fragment of an historical faith (whether catholic, protestant, or orthodox). We interview Michael Spencer from internetmonk.com and author of an editorial piece recently published in the Christian Science Monitor, wherein he forecasts a collapse of evangelicalism. No easy answers on this segment of Generations, but some thoughtful remarks that may be the beginning of laying down a more deeply-rooted faith that will transcend the generations.

Failure is Your Friend Too often, the family economic vision turns into a nightmare. Some bright-eyed, visionary family purchases a 40-acre farm in Kentucky for $500,000 with $450,000 in debt, and then drives the thing into the ground within 2 years. Experienced business mentor and entrepreneurial guru, Jeff Moore joins us on this edition of Generations to talk about his experience with hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business owners. Everybody will fail, but some succeed! Don’t miss the wisdom of a seasoned veteran on how to fail and how to fall forward when you fail. This is basic stuff for anybody considering a family economy.