The End of Theocracy
Just when we all had put our hopes in the secular state, and did our little dance with Jon Meacham of Newsweek Magazine on the grave of "Theocracy," the whole things crashes down on top of us! As Iran and America shake off their religious moorings, the secularists are celebrating their new-found utopia. While hating to be a big party-pooper, the gods of the copybook headings mosey up to explain it once more. What did the old man say? "Either you'll be governed by God or by God you'll be governed!". Kevin Swanson chronicles the rise of self-inflicted tyranny in the form of Cap and Trade, national healthcare, and other socialist plans for America. Meanwhile, down in South Carolina the loyal opposition appears to be losing whatever character was left on the right side of the aisle - once again proving what the old man said. When God changes the hearts of a family, He renews beautiful relationships and builds love and joy and righteousness into all of our institutions!!
June 29, 2009
Jettisoning Biblical Ethics
Two-thirds of teens don't believe in God, and six out of ten say that "religion has a negative influence on the world."
Meanwhile, on the slide into Gomorrah, Kevin Swanson gives the biblical reasons why Christians don't commit incest, and don't mark the flesh with Tattoos. You'll find it in God's Laws somewhere in Leviticus.
The thesis-antithesis thing gets pretty blurry by the time you start reading the evangelical Sojourner Magazine. Kevin Swanson plays a piece from Bart Campolo and comments on it.
June 26, 2009
Why Cities are Blue and Evil
In one of the most engaging discussions ever broadcast on the Generations radio program, Kevin Swanson touches California's Great Depression, shaping up to beat the one that hit America in the 1930s.
Things are different today. The cities are corrupt, and dying; some soon to be bulldozed and turned back into farmland. Is it time to leave the cities? Could God judge these cities as He did to others in the history of the world, or could He care less if these cities repented? What if God really does exist? What if He really does care what happens in these cities?
June 25, 2009
The Best Education for Your Child
In the cacophony of diverse recommendations for the education of children, parents really do make choices that prove to be fatal for their children. Sometimes they walk away from education conferences confused. All they know is that education is vitally important, as it forms the minds and hearts of the next generation.
Having returned from visiting several homeschooling conferences around America and Canada, Kevin Swanson boils it down to several basic principles for parents who are committed to a good, solid Christian education on this edition of Generations.
June 24, 2009
The Seminaries - Beginning with Harvard
Somehow America worked its way from solid Christian beginnings to a nation that endorses the worst possible evils (as defined by God's laws.) In this careful historical analysis, Kevin Swanson traces the roots of the rot in the foundations to the seminaries, particularly Harvard seminary. Two men worked hard to destroy the foundations of this country in the latter part of the 17th century - William Brattle and John Leverett. The battle over Education is the key battle for the soul of families, churches, and nations. And the good guys have been losing for 400 years plus.
June 23, 2009
Hotel Porn
A bird away from his nest, and a man away from his home - it turns the man into a temporary vagabond, unaccountable and disconnected from his covenantal relationships. In this ground-breaking program on the modern culture of travel, Kevin Swanson addresses the problem of hotel porn, and how the Apostle Paul or the Prophet Elijah would have dealt with it. They would have stayed in a brother's house, and enjoyed true, biblical hospitality.
June 22, 2009
Plan B: The Meek and Quiet Spirit
Sociologists, psychiatrists, and university study-ers are worried that women are more narcissist AND more unhappy than they were in the 1970s. What’s with this? I guess the secularist worldview wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, and maybe God had something there in that old, dusty Bible sitting under Grandma’s picture!
The Generations dads also talk about the out-of-control internet craze that is ruining relationships and doing even more damage to the dis-integrated, de-relationalized family of the 21st century.
June 19, 2009
The Comeback of the American Folk Family Band
Reformed social systems will eventually provide for new cultural forms. Thirty-five bands, about half of which are made up of homeschool families will converge on the El Paso County fairgrounds in Colorado on June 26th and 27th, for Gospel Grass 2009.
Kevin Swanson interviews one of the family bands as they embark on a yearlong venture around the United States on tour. The Dennis Haroldson family is the Desert Skies Band.
June 18, 2009
Is there a Better Way to Reach our Kids?
A recent survey conducted by researcher, Britt Beemer finds that regular participants in Sunday School are more likely to leave the church, believe the Bible is less true, and defend premarital sex. Ken Ham, author of the new book "Already Gone," calls it as "brutal wake-up call for the church."
But what if we experimented with more fatherhood, more family discipleship, more integration of the family, more honor of parents, and more love for children? Here Kevin Swanson suggests the Ephesians 6:1-4, Deuteronomy 6:7, and 1 Thessalonians 2:11 approach to children's ministry.
June 17, 2009
Egalitarians or Dominion Takers?
Must our daughters feel locked into a socialist framework for life, and work to perpetuate the economic dis-integration of the household? Or do we train them to be do-nothings that care little for the economic well-being of the home, as they sit around eating bon-bons and dreaming of Prince Charming?
To answer these difficult questions, Kevin Swanson interviews Elizabeth and Anna Botkin on their groundbreaking and thoughtful book on womanhood – So Much More.
June 16, 2009