Generations Radio

Reformation 500 John Calvin is a giant in history whose ideas and influence spanned half a millennium and a handful of continents. He may be the most hated, the most loved, the most influential, and the most caricaturized man in 500 years of world history. No other person influenced the English puritans and separatists, the Scottish Presbyterians, the Dutch Reformed, the French Huguenots, and the American colonies as much as this man. He celebrates his 500th birthday this year, and Douglas Phillips from Vision Forum joins us on this edition of Generations to commemorate this significant event.

How We Got to this Point Why would parents send their children to schools in California where anything close to a biblical position on homosexuality is forbidden by law? How did we get from America's first reader which began with "In Adam's Fall, We Sinned All," to the modern reader "Heather has Two Daddys?" Kevin Swanson - Host of Generations - takes you through the history of the decline of curriculum used in American schools that slowly transitioned from a God-centered view of reality and truth to a man-centered, humanist worldview. And think of all of the good parents who stayed on the slide the whole way down.

Interview: David McAlvany Kevin Swanson interviews economist and investor, David McAlvany on the present economic condition in this country. Shall we look for continuing deflation or hyperinflation? Will deflation and high unemployment lead to more loan defaults? Or will the federal reserve be pressed to hyper inflate the economy? Or will we see the worse of both worlds? The clouds are gathering, and although there are no prophets here, what we have may be "a perfect storm."

Two problems: No Faith and no Works Evangelical Christians are more likely to get a divorce than Jews. And more Catholics find homosexuality and children born out of wedlock morally acceptable than the wider population. The parking lots fill up on Easter, but the faith is dissipating and the salt has lost its savor. At what point are we just faking this religion thing? At what point has the faith died? The answer is simple - when it is separated from works. Kevin Swanson presents a simple gospel message on this edition of Generations.

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.