Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

In this age of moral relativism, literally anything goes because truth itself is under attack. No longer is there anything that can be said to be obvious, common sense, or the evidence of nature or natural law. There isn't even anything that is said to be defined by divine creation. Truth is whatever people want it to be. Sounds good. Sounds like freedom. But what it really is is an irrationa...

Debt is now as American as apple pie. It seems no debt is beyond our consideration. Personal debt per capita is at an all-time high and the US National Debt topped $30 trillion for the first time in January, 2022. We are mortgaging our children's and our grandchildren's futures, which is not only unwise, it is immoral. Scripture does not declare debt a sin, but it does repeatedly warn th...

Actress Anne Heche died tragically this month in an avoidable accident, probably caused by driving under the influence of drugs. What is most distressing aside from her death is what her 20-year-old son said: “My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom. After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness. Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to expl...

Aging comes to everyone great and small, that is, unless their lives end sooner rather than later. Most people probably don't like aging because it usually entails a decline of physical, mental, and other key life attributes. But whatever it entails, casual observation leads to the easy conclusion that some people age better than others, meaning not only that they don't seem to wear out...

Opioid addiction, including prescribed medications, is now a national emergency taking more lives than the most threatening diseases. The easily lab-synthesized fentanyl opioid is causing the highest number of overdoses, in part because it can't easily be distinguished from other drugs, and in part because it is generally mixed with other drugs, meaning those who partake may not even know the...

Cancel culture is a direct antithesis of both First Amendment freedom of speech and biblical Christian liberty. This approach to social discourse, or rather the lack thereof, will one day soon falter on the shores of its own premises, for its lack of grace and forgiveness is unworkable in human society.  Christian liberty is the biblical doctrine about God's creation of reasoning and choosing...

Immigration is a major issue in the current political landscape. Some want to open US borders for a free flow of immigrants, whoever will may come. Others say there needs to be some kind of organized, vetting process, and that certainly there should be a clear, legal path to citizenship that arriving internationals may elect to pursue. But reaching back at least to the second Bush Administration,...

Public education from kindergarten to graduate school is in serious trouble, primarily because it has lost its way, given to political ideology more than the dispensing of knowable truth and no longer knowing how or why to educate. Our educational system is teaching our next generations ambiguity and anxious anger. Some teachers, professors, staff members within public institutions of learning are...

Animals are a gift from God. Likely you agree even if you are not a pet person, for animals directly or indirectly contribute to the well-being, health, and flourishing of human life and civilization. When they become pets, our experience with them becomes more personal and enjoyable. In their zeal to protect animals, animal rights activists make the mistake of equating animals and human life, som...

In the wake of Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization, the SCOTUS case reversing Roe v Wade, there has been an uptick in anti-Christian blame. Abortion advocates, chilled to their bone by the decision, are incensed and looking for people and groups to blame, and one of the key culprits has been Christians or even Christianity. The vitriol and vehemence are raging. But there are also a l...

The Walt Disney Company, known for a century for family entertainment and excellence, has in recent days taken a hard left turn. In its full on embrace of "woke" philosophy and an unfettered sexual revolution, Disney is the latest and perhaps highest profile casualty of the worldview civil war. Once the go-to place for children's imagination, "wishing upon a star," now Dis...

The Bible speaks a lot about "the Last Days," the End Times when in the providence of God history comes to a chaotic then ultimately peaceful resolution . Scripture tells us not to try to set dates, but it also gives us many indicators that tell us the Last Days are coming soon. Are we in the Last Days now? Certainly the worsening decline of our culture seems to suggest this. But either...

Abortion is the profound moral issue of our times. It trumps all others because it involves taking the life of innocent unborn children. The Supreme Court of the United States moments decision Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, June 24, 2022, overruled or reversed Roe v Wade (1973). Reactions since have been intense and will continue to be. Abortion has not gone away.

Patriotism is an incredibly powerful emotion common to all people groups throughout time. But it can ebb and flow, including in the United States of America, once considered one of the most patriotic nations on earth. In recent years, it is ebbing. Can we be patriotic? The Greatest Generation thought so, for this is one motive that powered them to victory in WWII, thus preserving freedom for Ameri...

Given a continuing decline in college age students,  given a rapidly secularizing culture, or at least one that is marginalizing religion, and  given a declining number of Christian families that actually want their children to learn a Christian worldview, Christian colleges and universities are experiencing considerable pressures threatening their survival. In addition, in the past few decades, A...

Guns and gun control are a topic each time a misguided soul enters a school, mall, or church and shoots several people, including children. The public understandably wants to do something, anything, to fix the problem, make this nightmare go away, and guns are usually the focus of discussion. The point here is not to argue for or against gun control but to consider how we approach the discussion,...

June is Pride Month, designated by President Clinton in 1999 as a time to celebrate, affirm, and advance the interests of LGBTQ+ individuals. While there is no room or moral justification for any negative action toward other individual citizens, for Christians who question the morality of these behaviors this presents an opportunity to speak the truth in love, sharing our faith and the message of...

The Left, as opposed to the political Right or Conservative, is often still equated with Liberalism. But the Left, or now Progressives, and Liberals embrace entirely different values. In fact, Liberals were and are closer to Conservatives or the Right than many think.  The Left now offers a witches brew of false ideas, anti-American and anti-free society perspectives, biblically immoral views of s...

Uvlade, Texas, Robb Elementary School, is the site of another mass school shooting in which 19 children, ages 6-10, and 2 teachers lost their lives, victims of a lone gunman. To say this event is tragic does not come close to the gut-wrenching, senselessness of this attack on innocent children. What does our Christian faith speak to such an event? How should believers respond?

We often hear, Just believe in yourself. This is how Western Culture has functioned for some time. The self or self-fulfillment have been the primary focus of most people's lives. We feed the self. Many of us have come to believe that happiness is defined by what we own, how we look, who we impress, and how much entertainment we can enjoy. Perhaps believing in ourselves is not a bad affirmati...

Christians often seem to set up evangelism and social concern in opposition to one another, or at least to arrange them on separate tracks. Yet the Word of God is holistic. It shares God's moral will for all humanity, and it provides us with a Christian philosophy of life or worldview wherein we are to carry the message of reconciliation and redemption to the world even as we are charged with...

Popularly known as "Woke" philosophy, social justice ideology is literally taking American culture at a blitzkrieg pace. Some pushback has occurred and some is occurring now, but so far, social justice ideology advocates have won most battles in the name of "diversity, equity, inclusion." The problem is, social justice is not the same as biblical justice. While American culture...

Climate Change is the doomsayer topic du jour. Countless articles have been written, innumerable media people have breathlessly reported, and politicians and environmental activists alike proclaim the end of the world in 12, 10, 6-8 years. Why? Because human beings alone are responsible and the primary culprit is our use of coal, oil, gas. End the use of fossil fuel today and maybe we won't a...

It sounds like hyperbole, but it's really not: America is at war with itself, a kind of second civil war, this one a Cold War involving religious worldview. Our second civil war involves those on the one hand who believe the Bible is the divinely inspired, authoritative and trustworthy Word of God, and those on the other hand who reject the Bible, reject the idea of moral or absolute truth, a...

American teens and young adults are experiencing a full-on mental health crisis rooted in apocalyptic fears they are mainlining everyday from media and especially social media. Consequently, youth evidence disillusionment, dread, despair, and a nihilistic purposelessness. Youth are not going to church and do not possess a biblically Christian worldview. So. one reason for this catastrophic generat...