Pop Christian Lauren Daigel Waffles - How to Avoid Following Christ in His Persecutions
December 7, 2018
Lauren Daigel is the most famous Christian in America today. She’s the first major crossover Christian female singer since Amy Grant, and her latest album hit #3 on Billboard’s 300. For her moment of truth, when she was questioned on the watershed idolatrous issue of the day. . .she blinked, she faltered, she tripped, and fell. We talk about how Jesus failed the popularity contest and the trap of fame. Here are the basics on “How to Ruin Your Career if You Are a Big Star.” We also contrast the two responses given on the zeitgeist question -- Pastor John MacArthur vs. Lauren Daigel.
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President George H.W. Bush has died, and his last words were. . . Heaven. . ."That is where I want to go.” President George H.W. Bush left a legacy of Planned Parenthood Title X funding, and support for homosexual marriage. He increased funding for Planned Parenthood and Title X funding during his presidency after President Reagan decreased it. Then, he moved towards supporting homosexual marriage in 2013, serving as an official signatory for two lesbians in Maine. Repentance doesn’t look like this. Do you want to go to heaven? What are the requisites? We discuss faith and repentance, and a "living hope" for heaven -- a message for all of us on this edition of the program.
December 6, 2018
Can a Christian fall into a marital affair, and is there a possibility for redemption and reconciliation? Kevin Swanson speaks with Michael Gembola, Director of Blue Ridge Counseling Center and author of the new book “After an Affair — Pursuing Restoration.” What does true repentance and real restoration look like when the building has burned down, and the construction has to begin anew?
December 5, 2018
“Love me tender. Love me true. Make all my dreams come true.” What happens to young kids who are absorbed in romantic love and the popular media that promotes a self-oriented romanticism? Worldviews matter when it comes to the music our children listen to, and so much of the music is tied into a self-orientation. The Greatest Love of All is not self-love, but a love for God. We study the worldviews of big music hits on this edition of the program.
December 4, 2018
Your nephew wants to come over for Christmas dinner. . . only trouble is, he wants to come dressed up as a girl. An uncle wants to sleep over with his girlfriend or boyfriend in your house. . . but that’s okay because he just brought 20 gifts for the kids, and he’s quickly becoming their favorite uncle. How do Christians interact with the world without rendering approval for the sinful behavior going on? Christians give a pat answer, “You just gotta love everybody.” But, what does this mean? The more difficult question is: “How do you love them?”
December 3, 2018
The world explodes over cultural appropriations and misappropriations. Actor and comedian, Kevin Hart is in trouble when he threw a Cowboys and Indians party for his son. Should our boys be playing Cowboys and Indians these days? Do we as Christians get fixated on cultural expressions, as the world does? What cultural expressions might we use from pagan cultures, and which ones might we avoid? How might we help our sons to understand good and evil, and the good guys and the bad guys in their play battles? Play battles can be a great way to teach, but what do we teach our kids?
November 30, 2018
Harry Potter is the biggest pop-cultural phenomenon in the post-Christian zeitgeist today. The tenth movie in the franchise raked in $400 million last week at the box office. After reading the eighteenth encouragement from Christian reformed/classical/literary enthusiasts to embrace Harry Potter, Kevin Swanson finally reads the book and watches a Harry Potter film. Shall we encourage our eight-year-olds into this fantasy genre? Or would this sign us up for the Matthew 18:6 treatment? Here is a careful analysis of the Harry Potter worldview in this parallel universe of autonomy.
November 29, 2018
The political situation surrounding feminism, social justice, and the zeitgeist is bowling over evangelicalism and threatens to split the Southern Baptist Convention in half. Christians are terribly confused about the Marxist standard of justice (social justice) and a biblical standard of justice. Must Christians support government welfare programs and the redistribution of the wealth? What is justice, biblically defined?
November 28, 2018
The Christian thinker, Francis Schaeffer presciently described "The Great Evangelical Disaster" in 1984 before he died. Evangelicalism shrinks back from confrontation because evangelicals have found a single ethic and they tenaciously hold to it - T.O.L.E.R.A.N.C.E. The problem is not just the refusal to confrontation, but it's a basic, basic flaw in the worldview. As it now represents the new flagship for evangelicalism, we laser in on Hillsong - its roots and its sovereignty-of-man worldview.
November 27, 2018
Short term missions trip are en vogue for American churches looking for something to do for their teens (and hoping they might just get saved on the trip). But, now a new campaign is trying to stop these “harmful” missions trips to orphanages especially. What’s the first requirement for missions, before anybody even thinks about going on a missions trip? We lay down the most essential pre-requisite. And, also we offer general principles for charitable giving for missions and international needs.
November 26, 2018
The Star Wars franchise is the second highest grossing movie franchise in American history, with "The Force Awakens" the highest grossing movie of all the franchises in history, with almost $1 billion in box office receipts. Kevin Swanson examines the worldview behind this top grossing movie -- Star Wars: The Force Awakens. As the director and movie stars preach to the masses, Kevin Swanson takes careful note of the anthropology, political theory, social theory, witchcraft, and metaphysical worldview perspective that make up the world of Star Wars.
November 23, 2018
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Taking the World for Jesus
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.