The Generations Radio Program

What does the church or the Christian school do when the pastor’s daughter or the board president’s daughter turns up pregnant out of wedlock? The New York Times featured an article which pitted pro-lifers against a Christian school that took a stand against pre-marital fornication (and tried to enforce their "rules"). This brings up a discussion on the nature of repentance, the problem...

NPR’s Scott Simon makes note to atheist Richard Dawkins that atheist organizations are never seen helping people during wars, tragedies, or famines. But, why would atheists choose to be altruistic? The motive is going to be self-interest, unless there is a God-interest. We also take a look at the rise in suicide among the millennials, esp. with young girls. We cover the new television program “13...

Prejudicial Caricatures and Media Propaganda against certain sects constitute the first step towards persecution and genocides -- witness: Germany and Rwanda. Eccentric cults and Biblical Christians are being targeted in television programs and first-person shooter games.  We take a look at Far Cry 5 and The Handmaid's Tale as prime exhibits.  This program includes:  1. Generations with Kevin...

We do a quick review on the summer movie fare on this edition of Generations. The persona of Wonder Woman finds roots in Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Caribbean finds his roots in guys who hung on the gallows in 1721. Shall we encourage our children to endear themselves to guys who are drunk, commit adultery, and habitually steal from others...

Some are wondering if Russia's draconian anti-evangelism is bringing the nation back to the days of the Soviet tyranny. We status the situation by first hand account from a Russian believer on this edition of the program. This program includes: 1. Generations with Kevin Swanson 2. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus (Texas State Lawmaker Receives Death Threats, Volunteer Youth Mento...

Reformers of the 1920s like J. Gresham Machen saw the educational institutions and government-controlled systems as “far more dangerous” than the crude tyrannies of the past.  What would he say about our present day — with 5 times more government (as a percentage of the GNI) and 10 times more immorality?  We have hardly recognized the damage done to the family and to the church by our modern syste...

Young people are looking for cool churches and cool tattoos, or both. What do Christian parents say to their children who are planning to get tattoos? Is the church still interested in fulfilling the Great Commission and teaching them to observe what God has commanded including laws pertaining to prostitution, tattoos, cannibalism, and divination? How do we disciple the nations in 21st Century Ame...

Taiwan becomes the first Asian nation to set a path towards the legalization of unnatural relations and homosexual marriage. This introduces the subject of common grace, and the unusual condition in which God has chosen to withhold common grace from the world beginning in the 1980s. Why are the nations burning out en masse? This introduces the question of eschatology. Does the rise of Christ'...

Tragically, 2000 children attended the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, and three were killed (including one eight-year-old child). Geert Wilders thinks that Islam is the root problem underlying these violent terrorist events. Is Islam the problem? Or is radical Islam the problem? Or, is Ariana Grande the problem? Why would parents allow children to attend concerts that encourage gros...

What is the virtuous woman spoken of in Proverbs 31? Modesty. Domesticity. Prudence. Contentment. These aren't words we hear much anymore in the common vernacular, so here in this interview with Nancy Wilson we limp up to explain it once more. Nancy Wilson is the author of 16 books for Christian women, young and old. You will appreciate the graciousness, the humility, and the matter of fact,...

President Trump is moving right, they say. But, the rest of the country isn’t. Of all the 19 moral indexes monitored by Gallup over the last 16 years, Americans are not moving conservative on even one of them. Young adults are far more likely to endorse homosexuality, illegitimacy, abortion, and pornography than the older generation by about 20-30 percentile points. In fact, the millennials are 2....

Would more coffee bars, better stage lighting, and props on the stage of the church offer more demonstration of the Spirit and power in the ministry? Here is a riveting testimony that should shake some pastors up, and awaken a laity up from their fixation on fun and games. What does the church really need to be doing? We boil it down, and I mean we really boil it down on this edition of the progra...

Moms are wanting pieces of their aborted children encapsulated in jewelry. Professing Christians will develop a sentimental attachment for popular music and movies that contain similarly grotesque elements. And, Lyndon B. Johnson produces a Great Society that further destroys the poor. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Sentimental music, sentimental thinking, sentimental preaching, and a...

Primetime television is breaking new moral boundaries with the Starz new production, “American Gods.” The absence of the Christian influence and Christian preaching will mainstream paganism, human sacrifice, and homosexual porn, with a 98% approval rating from the reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes. We take up the question as to whether our daughters should be models and our sons should be actors. Shall...

Thousands of homeschooling families around the world participated in a worldwide homeschool summit sponsored by Generations. We review the theme of the summit - the importance of including God in Math, History, Science, and Literature. Giving your children the wrong worldview in these classes has been devastating for the faith in the generations. If the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, h...

An atheist professor suggests that virtual reality games will replace jobs for a “useless class” of persons. He compares religion and games as both forms of escapism. We interact with the worldview incoherence with the atheist perspective. Then, we question the world of mass production and mechanization. The automation and mechanization of education, agriculture, and human relationships has been a...

Recent numbers from Barna and Pew Research find that 60% of evangelical millennials are pro-homosexual and wouldn’t discourage the sin. 59% of millennials have quit attending church, and their worldview is turning left fast. These numbers suggest a drop of evangelicalism from 40 million to 4 million, unless God intervenes. We encourage Christian parents to get serious on discipleship for their chi...

The Generations ministry releases the Evil Index - 2017, identifying the most evil nations (and the best nations) in the world.  Other secular organizations will give you the happiness index and the prosperity index, but we are more interested in the commandments of God.  Based on God's objective ten commandments, do you live in the best nation in the world or the most evil nation in the worl...

National Review called the Religious Freedom Executive Order a "Nothing Burger," a "Water Sandwich." But, Dr. James Dobson says "he's never been so optimistic." What gives? We analyze the constituents of the order, and find the Christians too easily satisfied with a few bones. What about Obergefell and Roe v. Wade? We compare with Josiah's reformation, and t...

When we take the Great Commission seriously and start real discipleship-based churches, there's no telling what might happen! Here's the story of the missionary who helped plant 100,000 churches and baptized 3,000,000 disciples in 30 years. It's called "contagious disciple making." It's nothing new, yet modern denominationalism and evangelism needs to rethink what the...

Why are Japanese teens so glum? And why are millennials losing their hair at a higher rate than previous generations? The most miserable nations are typically rich, they have marginal Christian populations, and they have made progress undermining the nuclear family. That puts Japan and Turkey ahead of the others in the misery index. Meanwhile, South American countries are more optimistic. Nations...

We try to make sense of the kerfuffle surrounding Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, involving pastor rapping, accusations of racial insensitivity, apologies, and general cultural destabilization. And speaking of the cultural train wreck, we find sexually perverted lessons showing up in math classes in Podunk Center, Missouri. This program includes: 1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam...

Bill Nye is fighting the war on science. . . fighting to defend far-fetched fairy tales like Panspermia, Over-population, Climate Change, etc. Modern science has an increasingly difficult time distinguishing alchemy in their systems. We take a hard look at "scientific consensus," the conflation of morality with science, and other common errors made by the pop scientists of the day. And h...

We take a quick snapshot of President Trump's first 100 days in office - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Then, we look at the steady elimination of the middle class in America since 1970. What happens to nations that lose their middle class? And, how might we incorporate a more biblical approach and salvage a nation? This program includes: 1. The World View in 5 Minutes with Adam McManus (Pl...

Do conservatives run the risk of committing misogyny as they react to the feminist explosion of the last fifty years? How do we capture the right balance on this? Here are eight examples of how women express great faith in various callings and capacities. Kevin Swanson discusses the question with Dr. Michael Haykin, Professor of Church History at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This program...