Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

Guns are a major current controversy that repeats with every mass shooting or shooting at a notable person like the former president, Donald J. Trump. As Christians, we are called upon to apply God's Word, will, and moral instruction to our lives and the world in which we live. So what does the Bible say about Guns? Is it immoral to purchase or own a gun? Is the only purpose of guns to kill h...

Year 2023 saw several unplanned, unsponsored revivals or religious awakenings take place on American public university and private college campuses. Beginning year 2024 academic term a similar experience has occurred at Ohio State University. Is this the precursor to more such events during this academic year? Is God working as a counter to the spiritual wasteland many higher education environment...

Scripture commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, but does this include immigrants? Does it include illegal or unauthorized immigrants? Immigration can be considered on many levels, but here we examine the idea of "Love your neighbor" on both a personal or individual level and a political or national level. Certainly, no matter how immigrants arrived, they are here and they are h...

Megan Basham's book published 2024, asks the question: “Why have so many well-known evangelical institutions and leaders in recent years started promoting causes that no plain reading of Scripture would demand, like lobbying for fossil fuel regulations or dismantling white privilege, while issues that unequivocally call for Christian charity find them silent and stymied?”  She wonders aloud,...

Truth is disappearing in Western culture; in America too. If we do not believe in truth, real, objective, facts-whether-we-like-them-or-believe-them truth, then the edifice of our civilization crumbles. Our culture crumbles, then our nation inevitably will crumble. This sounds melodramatic and hyperbolic, but it is historically demonstrable. No truth, then no right or wrong, no fact or fiction, no...

Golden Wedding Anniversaries, 50 years, are not for the faint of heart. You get married, you make a commitment, you go off with your spouse, and there is no return policy. Fifty Years is a long but short time. With a thousand other voices, I can say it's amazing how fast time flies. God is good, and this is captured in Sarah's and my family verse, selected when we had our first child, a...

With Vice President Kamala Harris's entrance into the 2024 American Presidential election as the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party, and with former president Donald J. Trump's comments about her heritage, race is now an issue in the campaign. It's a good time to think about race and racism from a specifically Christian point of view. What does our Christian worldview tell us...

Since the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony July 26 social media has been on fire with people expressing their disgust or their support for what appeared to be a representation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting, The Last Supper, featuring drag queens, a large woman as Jesus, and a young child. This got worldwide reaction from many different religious leaders. While the Opening Ceremony sort...

Losing a friend is never easy or pleasant. While God told us we need not fear death, he did not say we had to like it. Indeed, God called death the enemy. It is a separation, but we know from Scripture that for those who are "saints" = those who trust the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, when they die, they are absent from the body, present with the Lord. They are not "gone," but m...

In the past decade, Western European nations and more recently during the Biden Administration in the U.S., the West has opened its borders to a literal flood of aliens or immigrants or migrants or refugees, or in the case of the US illegals, or undocumented or "newcomers," whatever  the politically correct phrase. The logic used by political elites who endorsed and made possible this il...

Since former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured Saturday, July 13, many people have observed two things: 1) there must be a "dialing back" of the vitriolic rhetoric that has come to characterize this campaign, and 2) the providence of God spared Mr. Trump's life because God is not finished with him and he is slated to help lead America back to its founding ideals. This p...

The transgender juggernaut taking American culture by storm is not just about sex but about identity. It is about choosing to be God so one can determine one's own sex. It is idolatry. Transgender activists know this philosophy cannot coexist with biblical Christianity, so it is on collision course with traditional Judeo-Christian values. Such diametrically opposed views could exist in a Firs...

Since Bruce Jenner said, "Call me, Caitlyn," transgenderism has taken American culture by storm. No part of society has remained untouched, and the same can be said for almost all extended families. But gender dysphoria is one thing, people struggling with emotional and mental issues, while transgender ideology and activism are another, the latter demanding absolute acquiescence, accepta...

Modernity is now overlapped by Postmodernity. Where once people believed in objective truth and reason, now they believe in subjectivism and feelings. Many, especially the young, no longer believe truth is possible. They speak of "My truth" and "Your truth" as if reality plays favorites or facts are optional. This fundamental shift has produced a Post-Truth Culture, one in whic...

Using different versions of the Bible throughout your life is probably a common occurrence for anyone who seeks to live an active Christian life.  For me, it was the KJV - isn't that true of everyone over, say, 50? Then on to the NIV for about 30 years, and recently a shift to ESV. What matters is that the version you choose is accurate and faithful to the original autographs and what matters...

Fatherless homes have increased significantly since 1960, so much so that the experience of children growing up in the average American household today is dramatically different from the one experienced by people born before 1970. Does this matter? Yes, it does. Turns out God knew what he was doing when he designed the family unit as mother and father and children. Now we also can point to sad sta...

Americans, as citizens in nearly all Western countries, are losing individual and personal freedoms to over-reaching governments populated by elected officials and bureaucrats who are more interested in expanding their power than doing what is best for the citizenry longterm. Mostly this inclination comes from the Left or so-called "progressives," but can be heard in the initiatives of t...

American institutions are in a self-generated decline, largely due to officials' buy-in to values that are contradictory to and undermining of the  traditional ideals that made the American experiment possible and flourishing in the first place. They reject equality before the law in favor of something called equity, reject meritocracy in favor of DEI, reject right and wrong morality in favor...

In the span of a month, both traditional and progressive Catholic views took a lead story position in social media and the news, the first from a professional football player's commencement address and the second from the Pope in an interview at the Vatican. The football player has been castigated across media for daring to say he appreciated his wife's choice to become a homemaker suppo...

Israel/Hamas have been involved in mortal combat since just after the surprise Hamas terrorist attack Oct 7, 2023 upon innocent Israelis across the border from Gaza. It's a tragic experience no matter how it is parsed, but it's been interesting to note how some Christian leaders lean heavily one way or another, which in itself is understandable and OK, but in doing so they often lack nua...

There are manifold ways to think about kinds of people in the world, but one way right out of Scripture is to think about "Sinners in Need of Grace" and "Sinners Saved by Grace."  Either a person has asked Jesus Christ to forgive their sins and by grace through faith (Eph 2:8-9) become a Christian, i.e., a sinner saved by grace, or they have not and are still a sinner in need o...

More than 80 American public universities have experienced not simply pro-Palestinian human rights protests--that's just the excuse--but what has morphed into pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, Jew-hatred, anti-America student (with the help of significant numbers of outside paid agitators) demonstrations. These generously labeled "protests" predictably evolved into commandeering and destroyin...

Why has American culture changed so dramatically in the past 25 years?  Was there a tipping point that triggered significant cultural change, and if not, what contributed to the shifts in values and behaviors we're now seeing in the streets, on campuses, even in the halls of Congress? In what way does American culture's view of truth, or the lack thereof, play into this? According to the...

Year 2024 is a presidential election year, so once again Americans are following the statements and antics of leading candidates from the Democrat - in this case the incumbent President Joe Biden - and from the Republican - former president Donald Trump. Christians often want to know more about their favorite candidate's religious persuasion, and this has been a staple of American politics fr...

MIsgendering, i.e., using a person's given name -- something called Deadnaming -- rather than the name they've chosen to match their perceived gender identity, or not using the person's Preferred Pronouns they say match their gender identity, is now a controversy in the U.S. Christians struggle with this challenge - do they refuse to use a transitioned person's new name or pref...