How One Man makes a Big Difference
Of all the problems that plague modern society, none is more fundamental or so devastating as the lack of manhood and fatherhood. What could be more heart-wrenching than the rising rate of boys who have no father, no mentor, no man to disciple them? In a day where 70% of boys will not reach manhood by age 30, how will a boy learn to be a man of God, unless there is a man who can show him how to be a man?
Enter a man with the heart and vision for boys raised in fatherless homes. Kevin Swanson interviews Bob Drake from Mentorme.org, about the needs, the opportunities, and the blessings in making a difference in the life of one solitary boy.
September 23, 2008
Who's in Control Here?
For just a couple of days, for a brief moment in time, the masters of Wall Street admitted that "things were out of control." Even the normal, straight-shooting Wall Street Journal screamed like baby for most of the week.
Man wants to think that he's in control of his own destiny, and therefore can play by his own rules. But Kevin Swanson makes the point that every empire comes down, when it refuses to fear the living and the true God. As it turns out, only God is in sovereign control of the outcome. It is ours to fear Him and keep His commandments.
We move from the Wall Street crash to more important things on this program - supper time.
September 22, 2008
Time for a Copernican Revolution in Education
A popular children's author has enraged mothers after suggesting that day care constitutes child abuse. But what should we say about some of the K-12 schools out there?
Now after 200 years of increasingly cold, institutionalized education, Kevin Swanson suggests a Copernican Revolution in Education. He unveils a new Education Manifesto in which the definition, goals, method, and content of education are reworked from the perspective of a biblical world and life view.
The classical Greek form of education separates knowledge from life, the fear of God from knowledge, character from education, and relationships from the paideia. In this segment of the Generations broadcast, Kevin Swanson suggests that Christians should stop borrowing from the humanists to inform their methods of education, which in the end only cripples the faith.
September 19, 2008
The Contrast: 1929 vs. 2008
Three of the largest five investment banks - gone in one year. Lehman Bros just filed the largest bankruptcy in the history of the nation (by a long shot). We are witnessing the most exceptional economic developments in 150 years, right now.
As the smooth-tongued wizards withdraw, Kevin Swanson limps up to explain it once more. All is not gold that glitters, and the debtor is servant to the lender. Contrasting the current economic situation to that which existed in 1929, he suggests a two-pronged economic plan – trust in God and keep your powder dry.
September 18, 2008
Christians and Government
Christians should make the best citizens in any social order, but there is a point at which they must resist tyranny. But what makes Christians resist tyranny is precisely the thing that makes them the best citizens! Kevin Swanson gives a biblical basis for paying taxes, while laying out the conditions under which civil disobedience must occur. With doctors in California being forced to artificially inseminate lesbians, and with German homeschoolers seeking asylum in America, the time couldn't be better for this broadcast.
September 17, 2008
Killing Spree
When man cuts himself off from God, he distances himself from the possibility of any kind of absolute law, like "Thou Shalt Not Kill," for example. Increasingly in modern society, we find children and adults operating within the moral void, and performing the ultimate in daring needs of murder.
Kevin Swanson ties the worldview taught in the modern world in with the social conditions we see around us on this segment of Generations. Isn't that something! Men will live out their ideas.
September 16, 2008
Schlocky Work and Schlocky Character
Why are a lot of corporate managers afraid to hire an employee with the fish on the bumper and WWJD on the bracelet? Kevin Swanson, as a former corporate engineering manager himself, explains the basic rule of success in the business world. He insists that quality and profitability begin in the human resources department.
Then, he suggests that God had it right when He put the basic principles of work into the book of Proverbs as the basic training guide for the next generation of entrepreneurs and employees.
September 15, 2008
Kids: A Bane or a Blessing
For the first time in a long time, America has a vice presidential candidate with 5 children. While that might not have seemed strange 80 years ago, it's highly counter-cultural today. The modern existentialist worldview tells people that children are a curse and debt is a blessing, so it's no wonder that most families today are having less and less children. In today's show, Kevin Swanson tackles the issue of ectopic pregnancies, falling birth rates, and a Biblical view on having children.
September 12, 2008
And the Best Leaders
If you apply the biblical standard for leadership (1 Samuel 8:15-18, 2 Samuel 23:3 and Exod. 18:21), you will be able to draw clear distinctions between good leaders and evil leaders in the history of a country.
Kevin Swanson identifies the worst leader in the history of America as a Colorado Governor who signed an important bill in 1967. Then, he throws in a few presidents for good measure. He ends the program with some of the greatest Christian political leaders of all time, recommending biographies of great leaders for families who will raise the next set of great leaders.
September 11, 2008
Raisin' a Palin
Kevin Swanson lays out a vision for raising the next Sarah Palins to rule the country in the year 2035. Then, he interviews Scott Brown on a biblical vision for womanhood and the vision for a feminist America. Contrasts form as worldviews clash on this segment of Generations. In a country where the family has unravelled, fatherhood is MIA, where 70% of men do not achieve manhood by 30 years of age, where the debt-to-GNI ratios are through the ceiling, and the character of the nation is in freefall, will 100,000 Sarah Palins be able to salvage our institutions in the next 30 years? More fundamental solutions are suggested on this broadcast.
September 10, 2008