Winners this season for the ABC Program, Dancing with the Stars were. . . Christians! But, Focus on the Family review calls the program “sexually-charged” in “all the clothes-shedding, leg-grabbing, floor-crawling maneuvers.” So which is it? Christian? Or Non-Christian? We take a look at the argument, “If somebody calls it art, it has to be good.” Who gets to call it art?
June 8, 2018
The Catholics and Evangelicals join forces in St. Louis for a conference on “Gay Christians.” The conference includes plentiful professors from Covenant Theological Seminary and Gordon Conwell Seminary. The conference provides insight into the brokenness of modern evangelicalism, and the powerlessness of a weakening faith. Then, we review Andy Stanley’s comments on unhitching Christianity from the Old Testament, I mean, the Mosaic Law. What would Jesus say about all of this?
June 7, 2018
The verdict is in. The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to decide the Denver Baker case. Instead, the court remonstrated the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for being insensitive, disrespectful, rude, and even “hostile” in their disagreement with Jack Phillips’ ethics relating to homosexuality. Even the Supremes were shocked by the animus against Christians represented by the State of Colorado. Why the animus?
June 6, 2018
The Methodists are accepting 111 homosexual clergy on last count. We take up this common statement, “I have a gay friend.” Why would you advertise your friend’s sins? Or do people wear this sin as a badge? Should we identify people with a particular sin in this way? Kevin Swanson examines this mindset, and then points out that Jesus did not party with sinners and give them high fives in their sins. He called them to repentance.
June 5, 2018
The social and political instability intensifies. Institutions crumble under the weight of the social revolution and the moral chaos of the day. Here is a little commentary on the collapse of the last empire, and a tribute to Tom Wolfe, the best writer of epitaphs for empires anybody ever saw. Age old institutions are cracking right now across the country. No political and religious leader is safe in a revolutionary age. The Me-Toos and the Snowflakes will work their vengeance, without taking a whole lot of interest in God’s law. Nonetheless, Al Mohler makes a good point - this judgment is God’s judgment and it must begin at the household of God. We take a quick look at the removal of Paige Patterson (stripped of “benefits, rights, and privileges”) from his position as President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
June 1, 2018
After some 1,400 years of Christian influence in the Western world, finally the last major nation (Ireland) topples to the pro-death, anti-Christian position. Some end times gurus are asking the question, “Is this the end of the millennium?” The Catholics have no influence in Ireland, and the Protestant Christians have lost influence as well. Given that only parts of Africa and South America remain pro-life, now what will the remaining Christians do in the West? Our answers may surprise you.
May 30, 2018
No single person has ever made more of an impact on the world than Jesus Christ. This statement would have been hard to say in A.D. 85, but there is no question about it today. Jesus has affected our calendar, language, idioms, social mores, treatment of women, charity, hospitals, economics, science, liberty, music, art, and abolishment of chattel slavery. Kevin Swanson interviews Dr. Alvin Schmidt, the author of an eye-opening, landmark treatment of 2000 years of world history. Get your children to listen to this one!
May 29, 2018
On May 15th, California Judge Daniel Ottolia affirmed life when he overturned the 2-year-old physician-assisted suicide law which had led to the deaths of 111 Californians, noting that the legislature acted unconstitutionally.
Guest host Adam McManus (www.AdamMcManus.net) talks with Dr. David Stevens, president of the 19,000-member Christian Medical & Dental Association (www.cmda.org), who says, "Assisted suicide is not healthcare; it has no role in the healing arts of medicine. Depressed patients can easily fall prey to the temptation to give up on life. Those who have a financial interest in a patient's death—insurers, the government, greedy heirs—can wield lethal pressure against the elderly and infirm. When these laws pass, millions of Americans, including many teenagers, who feel vulnerable to thoughts of suicide, hear a message from the government that suicide is a good thing.”
You’ll hear about the differences between physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, the Biblical reasons why they are wrong, and the disturbing notion that 25 states introduced such lethal bills in their legislatures, the vast majority of which failed to pass – for now.
May 28, 2018