Generations Radio

The Republicans voted to increase the debt from $4 trillion to $9 trillion under President George W. Bush, while he increased the non-defense spending more than any president since LBJ. Now, they're playing the political game with President Obama. Maybe a President Michelle Bachmann can save us from our troubles. Or. . . maybe not. Kevin Swanson discusses the debt crisis, and contemplates who might be the one to kick the can a little further down the road in 2012. Our studio audience asks about the Tea Party, voting for women presidents, and the 2012 elections.

After 200 years of secular education sweeping through most of the world via boarding schools, compulsory attendance laws, etc., a new paradigm for education is coming through the home education movement. It will have international repurcussions. Kevin Swanson interviews Kay Hiramine, who serves as the International Liaison for the Alliance for Christian Home Education Leadership. Kay is a homeschooling father of five children, and travels the world with his family and a team of interns. Here, we discuss the paradigm for re-integrating the family into education, ministry, and business; as well as the powerful mode of education called “mentorship.”

The breakdown of the faith seems to attend the breakdown of family relationships. But what is the real problem with church ministries? Is it the toxicity of the adolescent peer group and its corruption of the youth? Is it the lack of meaningful integration of the older and the younger in the same social setting? Is the church aiding and abetting the disintegration of the family in the present age? Are Sunday Schools the real problem, or do we have deeper problems? Are the current systems just watering down the doctrine of the church, the discipleship methodologies, and the relationships necessary to disciple the next generation? Is all of this "ministry" just too shallow, too insipid to meet the relentless series of tidal waves of apostasy that are rolling over the church in the west?

Socialist, Family-fragmenting, Birth-Imploding Dystopias vs. A Heart-warming Homeschool Family with a Bakery Nick Stam is a Dutch Baker in New Brunswick, Canada. He has 12 children, "a Baker's Dozen," and a family business that beats all family businesses. Their children have helped to operate the bakery for years, while they were homeschooled. In sharp contrast with the socialist, family-fragmenting, birth-imploding dystopia around them, here is a life-filled story of a family-integrated business filled with 12 children, sweet breads, a homeschooling mom, and a "papa" who is engaged everyday with his children. Families all over the world will find this story very inspiring! It is a story about fatherhood, families working together, debt-free living, faith, generational vision, and hope for the future.

The verdict is in - Casey Anthony has been acquitted of murder, but how should Christians respond? Many are celebrating because “the system worked” while others are as angry as a wasp that had its nest broomed. The prosecution, with the aid of the media, did a good job of convincing everyone that Casey was a bad person, but that does not make her a murderer. Dave Buehner lays out some often neglected and ignored Biblical principles of justice and Biblical law to help frame the Anthony verdict, or even the OJ verdict, not in emotional terms, but in terms of the law of God. Some listeners may find what the Bible actually says quite surprising.

Interestingly, the most godless states in America also happen to be the most "educated" states. If the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God, will this "education" you get in American universities make you wise, or just godless? What happens to states that abandon the fear of God, over a period of 100 years or so? Kevin Swanson monitors the decline of the western world, and assigns the blame to the increased secularization of education.

Today, we interview Andrew Rappaport on the challenge of street evangelism and apologetics as well as the great blessings that attend this work. The need for apologetics and evangelism continues to grow as apostasy continues in the Western World. Whether it be the Muslim, Mormon, or Christian Apostate, they each need to hear the message of hope that is found in the gospel of Jesus Christ alone.

Is America the best country in the world? Or is America the worst country in the world? It’s getting harder to tell as the years go by, at least if you look at the state of the family in this country. We are quickly losing faith, family, and freedom in this once great nation with rich Christian roots. Prosperity may be soon to grow wings and fly away as well. But will freedom ever return to our world? As long as you live here or anywhere, you have a responsibility to see to it that all of your institutions and relationships improve according to the standards of God’s Word. Some nations will always be better than others, because they better conform to the standards of God’s Word. Kevin Swanson gives a message of vision and hope for tens of thousands who want to be part of another “Mayflower,” for those who want to be a blessing for many generations to come. Here is the core message delivered to the Indiana Home Educator’s convention at Indianapolis in June of 2011.

Was the Constitution a Christian document? Or was it the beginning of a secular nation? Dave Buehner reviews the Christian heritage of the nation and the Constitution that has secured remarkable freedoms for so long.

The post-modern world has jettisoned any possibility for absolute truth, and thereby removed itself from any meaningful conversation concerning ideas. Meanwhile, Christians are finally returning to the worldview discussion, suggesting that there is a possibility for truth. Yet sadly, few Christians are really equipped to enter the discussion. Only 8% of American Christians have even the basic constituents of a biblical worldview. Enter Dr. Del Tackett and the Truth Project from Focus on the Family. Here is a significant program that is working to re-establish a solid worldview foundation for Christians who have learned a little story about Jesus, but are sadly lacking in their understanding of things like truth, God, man, law, and sin.