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Kevin Swanson

Ten Books that Screwed Up the World

April 17, 2009
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.

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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.
April 16, 2009
Interview: R.C. Sproul A well-constructed theology of the family is vitally important, especially in a day where the family has pretty well broken down in the western world. Kevin Swanson interviews R.C. Sproul Jr. on his book, Bound for Glory.
April 15, 2009
How to Handle Persecution Precious few Christians are actually persecuted in America for their faith. Those that get the most flak are usually the ones who stand up against naturalistic evolution in university science classrooms. Occasionally, a few despised wretches will catch some flak when they oppose the materialist, me-centered, existentialist age, by birthing 14 children and bringing mom home from the corporate slave-mill to homeschool the kids. A new book serves as an "expose" for this scary movement of. . . real, live Christians.
April 14, 2009
Interview: Michael Spencer "The End of Christian America," headlines the front cover of Newsweek Magazine this week. Christian leaders rush to explain the cause of the failure of Christianity in the west. Any and all concerned are clawing for some substantial handhold, some piece of "relevant" Christianity, some kind of meaningful Christian relationships, or some fragment of an historical faith (whether catholic, protestant, or orthodox). We interview Michael Spencer from internetmonk.com and author of an editorial piece recently published in the Christian Science Monitor, wherein he forecasts a collapse of evangelicalism. No easy answers on this segment of Generations, but some thoughtful remarks that may be the beginning of laying down a more deeply-rooted faith that will transcend the generations.
April 13, 2009
Failure is Your Friend Too often, the family economic vision turns into a nightmare. Some bright-eyed, visionary family purchases a 40-acre farm in Kentucky for $500,000 with $450,000 in debt, and then drives the thing into the ground within 2 years. Experienced business mentor and entrepreneurial guru, Jeff Moore joins us on this edition of Generations to talk about his experience with hundreds of entrepreneurs and small business owners. Everybody will fail, but some succeed! Don’t miss the wisdom of a seasoned veteran on how to fail and how to fall forward when you fail. This is basic stuff for anybody considering a family economy.
April 10, 2009
Homeschool Day at the Capitol In the which, Dave and Kevin spend a day at the Denver Capitol with their families, viewing an empire in decline. But with them are thousands of homeschoolers who very much constitute the real future of freedom and hope for our generation. In the economic and political chaos that marks this monetary-debauched, debt-oriented, socialist system of ours, there are still a few voices making sense. The gods of the copybook headings limp up to explain it once more. Kevin Swanson provides a basic biblical concept of economics and politics to thousands of homeschoolers in Colorado and beyond. Eg. If the debtor is servant to the lender, for example, what in the world are we doing indenturing our country to China?
April 8, 2009
A Heritage Worth Knowing America’s first Continental Congress opened on September 5, 1774 with a Christian worship service. After reading from Psalm 35, the men knelt and prayed fervently for God's forgiveness and blessing on the nation. You may recognize some of the names - Washington, Henry, Randolph, Rutledge, Lee, and Jay. Or maybe you don't recognize the names. Here Kevin Swanson interviews Marilyn Boyer, author of a new study guide that presents the character and lives of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mostly forgotten today, these men formed the foundation of a nation that would enjoy the blessing of God for many generations. If another experiment of this sort should ever happen in the history of the world, our children and grandchildren should know these stories.
April 7, 2009
How Boys Should Treat Their Sisters Marxism, Egalitarianism, Materialism, and Feminism inevitably reduce to one big Nietzchean power struggle for dominance. The single value that motivates and drives is power. This is not our worldview. We reject the power motive in favor of love. This, of course, will never be understood by the feminists (Christian or Non-Christians) that cannot think in Christian terms. Kevin Swanson climbs into the gender blender again, and finds our social systems working their way into Plato's gymnasium where both men and women do their thing in the nude. The loss of gender distinctions begin when girls and boys are referred to as "guys." This breakdown occurs when boys treat their sisters like "one of the guys."
April 6, 2009
Building Idolatry-Free Relationships Marriage relationships and other family relationships almost always suffer from the problem of idolatry. But as Norm Wakefield puts it in this eye-opening interview, you can’t love somebody you idolize. You form unrealistic expectations of your gods, and set yourselves up for horrible disappointment, even divorce. This subject material addresses an almost-universal problem in relationships.
April 3, 2009
What's Left When the Existentialist West Dies? The Muslims are taking over in Europe, because "Old Europe's population is dwindling as birth rates among Muslim groups are swelling," to quote yesterday's Fox News. Three out of the 19 sections of Brussels now have Muslim majorities, and the "mosques are in charge." But then we turn over to an NPR story and find some twenty-first century Existentialist criticizing a few Christians in America who actually like children and count them a blessing! The Full Quiver movement is a shock to the existentialist, me-centered, materialist age that took the birth rate from 4.0 to 2.0 (while the square footage of the average home doubled in size) since 1900. This worldview paradigm shift may be what it will take to salvage Christianity in a day where humanism is rotting and the only thing that may be left in a hundred years are Muslims and Mormons out in the west.
April 2, 2009
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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.

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Heard in all 50 states and over 60 countries around the world, Generations Radio brings a fast and fresh perspective to issues touching Christian families. From cultural commentary and movie reviews to education and homeschooling, Generations Radio has it every day - all from a distinctively biblical worldview

About Kevin Swanson

Kevin Swanson is the host of Generations Radio and a homeschool father of five children. Homeschooled himself in the 1960's and 1970's, Kevin went on to run for US Senate and has since traveled around the US and world speaking on the family, education, and biblical worldview. As the Director of Generations with Vision, Kevin has a passion for faith, family, and freedom in the 21st Century.

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