Average Earnings Fall Short of CPI - Will Christian Employers Be Honest?
January 17, 2022
Your paycheck is docked. Inflation is running 10-14%. Your savings account is losing 7% per year. And your conservative bond investments you bought 10 years ago have lost about 15% in value—$4 trillion in 10 years. But the good news is that the government gave you $3,200 during COVID. Average earnings have fallen since April of 2020—a 5.4% dock in pay. Ironically, the average annual paycheck has been docked $3,670 because the COLA's aren't keeping up with the CPI (let alone the real inflation index). Here is an encouragement at least to Christian employers that they inform their employees that their pay is being decreased for the work they do. Keynes admitted that inflation is an insidious, destructive economic force that not one man in a million could detect. We just hope that the 14-year-old kids that listen to this program will know what is happening.
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A Baltimore man is the first to receive a genetically-modified pig heart. And, Al Mohler tells us there is no reason for Christians to reject it. Or. . . is there reason? Would it be appropriate to apply Leviticus 19 to such a case? This Frankensteinian science sans the fear of God might even force us to use biblical law to assess such strangeness. The 21st century produced children born of three parents, artificial insemination, surrogate wombs, millions of disposable "snowflake" children, human-animal hybrids, artificial wombs, and innumerable other monstrosities. Have we equipped the man of God for this weirdness?
January 14, 2022
Christian charity changed the world, and then Karl Marx showed up. Americans still provide 1.44% of the GDP in charity. We're still the most generous nation on earth, but that's dropped off by half since 1924. Church giving has dropped off from 2.8% to 0.7% of the GDP since 1924. And most of church offerings go to clergy and buildings, while governments assign 20-30% of the GDP to social programs. Private church and the church were basically irrelevant in the area of true Christian charity.
January 13, 2022
Is atheism dead yet? Eric Metaxas argues the point that the atheist position carved out in the Post-Christian West has actually become increasingly untenable. Atheism has become more anti-Intellectual or even anti-rational. How would Charles Darwin take the constant stream of evidence countering his far fetched hypothesis of advanced life forms evolving out of the inanimate over millions of years? While we wouldn't agree with the atheistic evolutionary construct, there are still internal contradictions that cannot be resolved by the committed atheist.
January 12, 2022
Kevin Swanson and Adam McManus discuss the use of the birth control pill today. The pill is known to cause abortions, but why are a large percentage of Evangelical Christian women on it today? Should God's laws mean something to us today?
January 11, 2022
The internet is a blessing and a curse. . . a double-edged sword. There are the misguided, the unqualified, the imbalanced, the downright unhealthy and cultic, everything from the sublime and ridiculous. We give a few examples of scripture-stretching and sweeping generalizations that prove unhealthy for the churches, and then outline nine basic principles of sound hermeneutics for the layman.
January 10, 2022
Why do 95%+ of the top selling evangelical female authors in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 tout failed marriages and broken families? This thing is way off the tracks—the dysfunctional leading the dysfunctional into. . . even more dysfunctionality. While not pointing fingers directly at one particular author, we uncover the systemic problems with the whole edifice. Why do we keep pointing back to Psalm 11? The solution to the problem is simple: The Lord is in His holy temple. His eyelids try the children of men.
January 7, 2022
Ted Cruz's daughter doesn't like her father's policies, but what about President Obama's daughters and President Bush's daughters? Francis Schaeffer's son Frank is still unhappy with his father. But, while not delving into specific problems with a particular family, we go over the reasons why the hearts of the fathers and daughters/sons break down, and generational fractures develop.
January 6, 2022
Christians are the last hope for political, economic, and social freedoms in the world. But in the present decline, how will a family pass a legacy of Christian liberty on to their children? While Christian liberty is not the freedom to sin, this liberty does begin with freedom from sin. It is only at this point that a true passion for liberty grows in the heart, to the point that we can advocate liberty in a world that is headed towards tyranny. Join the Family Vision Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on February 17-19, 2022.
January 5, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin complains about the undermining of traditional family and faith by the abominations of the West. He's not pleased that Western values (or the lack thereof) are seeping into his country. However, Russia's Bolshevism already ruined the family a long time ago, and then, the Chinese communists quite successfully ruined the family, and then, the West's Gramscian Marxism went ahead and ruined the family out here. Given the utter devastation these Marxists have brought to the East and to the West, is it too late to salvage any of these civilizations? What can possibly reverse the birth implosions and the social destruction brought about by the Marxist zeitgeist of the last century?
January 4, 2022
Given the present turmoil and the impossibility of returning to some sort of status quo, now how are we going to proceed with politics, the economy, and the church? How do we prepare for the great downturn in economics? And what about the church? There is a desperate need for three things: Discipleship. Preaching. The restoration of real worship.
January 3, 2022
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This is the retelling of the most exciting story in all of human history. Something truly remarkable occurred when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and gave His disciples a great commission. The world would never be the same again. Kevin Swanson takes the reader through the 2,000 year worldwide saga of this epochal mission to the world. From Judea to Rome, Ireland, Denmark, China, Japan, Uganda, New Zealand, and to the uttermost parts of the earth, the light of Christ shines into the darkness, transforming every nation throughout the centuries.