Generations Radio

How do Christians handle the world of social media? How important is our privacy? Are there potentially dangerous consequences to major powers knowing everything there is to know about us? Do we have anything to hide? We need to be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves when it comes to these things, and use much discernment. Facebook has caused countless problems in the lives of families and churches, although there may be a few useful ways to utilize it. We discuss the positives and negatives of it all on this edition of the program.

The most recent report indicates that now 37% of Planned Parenthood's budget comes from state and federal funding, and they are getting more opportunities than ever to kill babies. It seems that many today are pragmatic, having compromised on the principle of God's creation of life in the womb, and the guilt of our sin and selfishness is everywhere. However, we come back to blood of Christ that heals and cleanses us from all sin, and encourage the taking up of our cross in joyful service to Him.

A battle is heating up. Will 2020 be a year that evangelicals split apart on the right things or the wrong things? Will evangelicalism split down the middle on Donald Trump and Immigration policy? Or will evangelicalism split right down the middle on things like the Definition of Sin, the Law of God, the Power of the Gospel to transform lives and to provide a new identity and a new orientation in Christ? Thoughtful Christians will want to be careful not to split apart the body on the gnats, on questionable issues, or on third-level applications. Here are some principles to consider as we approach the 2020 elections.

The second largest protestant denomination in America has fairly collapsed by a rejection of the Gospel. They could not believe that the Gospel could save people from their sins. This apostasy is the most indescribably shameful, wicked, and conspicuously evil in the history of the Christian church. But why did the conservatives have to leave, if they were winning every vote in the assembly? Why are the conservatives always pushed out?

The fires in Australia are another critical reminder that the fear of God is the most important lesson of all. Modern man finds the sovereign hand of God over the fires and the floods as utterly abhorrent. . .for several reasons. If there is a god, in their view He must be nice, because we’re all so nice, and all. . . If these nations do not learn something of the fear of God, what will happen to them?

Here is one of the most shocking exposes on the cultural revolution, led mainly by the entertainment industry and Hollywood in particular. Eric Holmberg illustrates the incredible power of Hollywood to lead a nation to cultural degradation and ruin. Always staying a little ahead of the immorality curve, sexuality on the movie screen moved from married people sleeping in separate beds to the ultimate sexual degradation. What will the future hold for entertainment?  Will this take us back to the last days of Pompeii, and Rome?

Are we supposed to be high art snobs when it comes to music? Or should we reject the high art for the more humble folk art? What are the basic principles relating to music, and that which is used in the church? Douglas Bond brings a thoughtful perspective on a controversial subject on this edition of Generations.

As more of medical care, education, and welfare is turned over to the government, increasingly bureaucracies will confiscate children and control medical decisions over the American family. Freedom disappears as people begin taking the government welfare provided by the state (whether that be schooling, Obamacare or welfare). How to avoid medical kidnapping, much like what has happened to Drake Pardo and others.

Churches seem to be filling up with licentious media, pastors recommend Harry Potter movies, and love for whatever the world advocates seems constant.  What does one do?  Must we become the Values Police checking everybody’s internet history, reading fare, and A/V diet? Kevin Swanson recommends asking the more fundamental questions. There are usually more fundamental issues at stake, which will either draw us together in Christ or prove some to be not of us. 

Reuters calls the 2010s the DECADE OF DEBT. American corporations have become the paradigm of greed, dishonesty, unprecedented debt, and the quick buck. All caution was thrown out the window ten years ago. While the federal government was running trillion dollar deficits, corporate America was running up annual trillion dollar deficits too. But, they weren’t spending it on equipment and development. They were spending it on fake dividends and buying their own stock — 60% of the deficits! At the same time the S&P Price to Earnings ratio was bumping into the mid-20s. Not Good. Not Good. Not Good. But, what are the real heart problems with America? What will greed, debt, and the get-rich-quick schemes do to a country, to the largest economies in the world. . .to China. . . to Japan. . . to the whole world?