Generations Radio

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kingdom, Church, and Culture "Whatever you do, don't engage the culture!" That's the advice coming from prominent theologians today from reformed seminaries, now reacting against whatever it was Francis Schaeffer was trying to teach us in the 1970s and 1980s. With the rejection of God's law and the radical separation of faith and life coming from a rapidly-apostatizing Christianity today, it's about time that Christians in the west develop a proper theology of kingdom, church, and culture. There are many potential traps in this discussion, and Kevin Swanson quickly outlines a biblical approach to the subject in this edition of Generations.

Hooking Up Replacing Dating Warning: We recommend that parents listen to this program before sharing it with their children. Dating is being increasingly replaced by a new trend called “hooking up.” For those of you who need a definition, it's basically what dogs do. To avoid the hassle of relationships and the emotional baggage of break ups, young people now prefer emotional detachment and the life of the vagabond. Ironically, the Generations dads also recommend the abandonment of dating, but for different reasons. We're renewing relational living! We're restoring relationships. We're looking for the very best possible husbands for our daughters, and the most compatible wives for our sons. While the world is coming apart at the seams, we're laying footers down six feet deep in our families, foundations that will hold for GENERATIONS! Included in this program is the question of marrying unbelievers, or fornicators, or ex-prostitutes.