Generations Radio

Where to Get a Vision Education is in decline. The character of a nation has fallen drastically. Morality is sinking to a new low. The idea of family has faded. Suppose you were a parent who was actually concerned about his children and their future. Would you be happy with the status quo? Suppose you were a parent who no longer trusted the professionals who put together the education systems about you. Where would you go for a vision for something better? In this segment of Generations, Vision Forum's Doug Phillips and Kevin Swanson talk about where you might find that vision.

A Truly Relational Church Practically every mega-church and Community Fellowship Church of Who-Knows-Where, Indiana touts community as the buzz word of the day. But what kind of community are we talking about in the shallow, city-life of the vagabond? Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner discuss the radical change of lifestyle that happened when they began an effort to bring back relationship-based covenant-community in family and church. Biblical community happens when hard-truth is nurtured in long-term relationships, through the rapids of conflict, and the exercise of mega-doses of love, joy, peace, and longsuffering.

Kissing and Intimacy in the Movies The #1 movie in the nation last weekend was "Sex in the City." Interacting with the Newsweek feature article on the "Sex" phenomenon, Kevin Swanson questions the worldview behind the independent, narcissistic, and materialist worldview found so attractive by many who watch the film and TV series. This leads to a discussion on the whole issue of portraying kissing (ala Prince Caspian) and sexual intimacy on the big screen.

Senate Bill 200 After 400 years of religious freedom for those who wanted to own and distribute Bibles on their own property in America, the Governor of Colorado has put an end to it. SB08-200, signed into law last week will prohibit the issuing, circulating, and distributing of Leviticus 20:13. While churches are exempted for now, Christian schools, Christian book stores, private business, etc. are not. Will we avoid a persecution against Christians at the hands of committed humanists in the next 40 years? While their may be a short term persecution, Kevin Swanson suggests that there may be a hope for faith, family, and freedom yet, at least for our grandchildren.

Interview: Carol Barnier How do you teach a child with an impossibly short attention span? How do you get your child off the refrigerator into learning? This was a question that Carol Barnier faced with her son. When she and her husband couldn't bring themselves to medicate their ADHD-diagnosed child, particularly after his already long medical history of 13 surgeries, Carol found herself homeschooling. In this segment of the Generations Radio broadcast, Carol provides wonderful practical ideas when working with a specially gifted child - gifted with ADHD.

A New Paradigm for College Increasingly, many families have become disillusioned with college as a means of preparing their young people for the calling God has on their lives. It fails miserably in life integration, the honing of character, the maintenance of meaningful accountability systems, and the application of the disparate pieces of the education into the whole. Thus Christian Home Educators (in Colorado) has introduced an AME Program, geared to bring mentorship back into the college/corporate and entrepreneurial life tracks. Kevin Swanson interviews Director, Carl Bobb on this new exciting program that will not only vastly improve higher education, but rejuvenate family economic systems for the future of a nation.

Submission and Resistance What should you do when you disagree with a government policy? A listener asks whether opposing government on things like "homosexual marriage" is rebellion against God. Does God give the government license to do whatever it wants to do? Kevin Swanson walks through the various forms of tyranny, and then explains the biblical approach to civil resistance in this edition of Generations.

Giving your children the right view of life More important than the rising gas prices and failing economy ... more important than who gets elected president in 2008; more important than your last debate with an evolutionist. What are the most important things in life? Here, Kevin Swanson gives examples of a family who found out what God considers most important and gave their children a lesson on that during a trip to Zambia. What is life about? Doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly before your God. Includes interviews with homeschool dads Jim Mill and Brent Nelson.

Fornication and Feminism The second Narnia tale produces another box office success. But twists in the tale taken to the silver screen seem to present an ulterior agenda. Is the director's intention behind such modifications to introduce the fornicating and feminist world and life view for the young viewers? Are PG movies more influential that R rated and X rated movies in formulating the worldviews by which hundreds of millions live their lives? And what is that worldview?

Arrested by the Cow Police A Mennonite farmer in Pennsylvania is arrested for selling unpasteurized milk, and Kevin Swanson admits that he drinks raw milk without divulging the name of the cow. Our forefathers were concerned about the tyranny of a state that imposed 29 cents of annual taxation upon the colonists. But now the character of the American people has changed dramatically, as they willingly bow to government control of every aspect of their lives, and a government that confiscates 50% of the wealth of the nation each year. Host Kevin Swanson presents a biblical approach to government regulation, drawing from the gross negligence principle of the bull that "pushes its horn." He makes the point that when men stray from the laws of God, inevitably they give way to tyranny and anarchy (usually simultaneously).