Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

God created human beings for community, fellowship with him and with other people. Consequently, isolation, or being or feeling isolated, truly alone even if in a crowd is not normal and not healthy. Same is true in the Christian Church, the Body of Christ. Believers need one another and that's one reason God commissioned the church in the New Testament. But there are isolated believers all o...

Many people don't like to think about the hereafter, much less death or specifically their own mortality. Apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of them. Once you come to understand that he thinks heaven is a fantasy and death is the end, his perspective makes more sense. Though his view of heaven does not make sense, is not rooted in a religious faith, and is but his cynical surmise. It&apo...

June Pride month is here and it's not going away. Christians need not participate, meaning attend events, and neither do they need to endorse, promote, or even support such events coming into communities. There is a body of law in the US that allows communities to make determinations about public decency without undermining or restricting other people's freedom of expression. In a public...

June Pride month has become a cultural tour de force. Despite LGBTQ+ advocacy groups proclaiming people who choose this lifestyle are somehow at extreme risk, their interest and ideology is making seemingly unstoppable headway at every level of society across the country. No field of human endeavor in American life is immune from pressure to participate without reservation in a celebration of a pe...

We hear a lot about identity these days, usually something regarding identity politics, which asserts identity is wholly socially determined.  According to this philosophy, we are products of our sex, race, and something socially invented called gender identity. But Christians believe we are made in God’s image. Sex, race, and ethnic characteristics matter in our lives, but not in the reductionist...

Memorial Day is, or should be, both a day of remembrance and a day of gratitude for those who served and sacrificed, some giving the last full measure of devotion, to protect and preserve freedom, democratic government, and a safe and secure homeland.  For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com. 

Contemporary American, if not Western, culture is engaged in a pellmell rush to embrace nearly everything historic cultures considered lacking in common sense. I call this a celebration of irrationality. It goes to worldview. The current cultural zeitgeist has rejected moral absolutes for moral relativism. Many negative social pathologies result. American culture cannot long sustain itself upon th...

Artificial Intelligence is suddenly everywhere in media. The coverage is a product of new excitement, a new story, and the release of the now, fastest-ever growing app, ChatGPT, Nov 2022. Some coverage delves into the presumed arrival of futuristic science wherein humanoids will soon take over the world. Other coverage is more practical, proclaiming AI is a cultural, corporate tipping point or gam...

More on Artificial Intelligence. It's a brave new world we are entering so it bears thoughtful consideration. AI as it is called, like other new tools and technology, offers progress and potential pitfalls, especially in terms of concerns for individual liberty and democratic government, moral choices, and the ease with which fake and fiction come to dominate our lives. For more Christian com...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer found only in sci fi books and films.  It is much more than the idea of sentient robots suddenly running amok. In fact, this is the least of our concerns. AI in the form of generative text development tools like ChatGPT and a host of others are already being used in a variety of businesses and other applications. ChatGPT, released for free to the public in...

Everyone doubts. Some of the greatest minds of the Christian faith have expressed doubts, not unbelief, doubt. There is a difference. Os Guinness's classic,  God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt  is highly recommended. Doubt is part of my spiritual journey, especially when I was coming of age. I never doubted the existence of God, but I certainly doubted whether I...

Liberalism has typically been thought of as the opposite of Conservative, and in a few ways it is, particularly its outlook upon big government. But a far more pernicious threat now exists in the ideology of Leftism that is not only the opposite of Conservative but the enemy of everything for which conservatism stands. Anti-God, anti-human, anti-democracy Leftist ideologues can now be found in pos...

Crime seems to be the one constant, ubiquitous occurrence in American society. While there was a time when one could move about without much thought to his or her safety, that time seems to have gone. Public officials who have bought into "woke," which is to say Marxist, ideas about economics, class, race, and gender now regularly refuse to prosecute crime, contending it's not a mat...

Marriage is a creation and gift of God for all humankind. Some have claimed the end of marriage is soon upon us. Some have promoted the idea. But new trends suggest otherwise, and more importantly, ending marriage does not fit God's will and reality. A good marriage is gold, as is the spouse who makes that possible. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.

Transgender people need, as the trans movement claims, "affirmation and acceptance," but not to transition to a sexuality that does not align with their biology but affirmation and acceptance as human beings made in the image of God who makes no mistakes. Trans ideology is now experiencing something of a historical cultural moment. It is a juggernaut that, despite trans activist claims t...

In the hands of the secular progressive Left, words are weapons. They can be redefined at will to accomplish the Left's goals, and this has happened and is happening in 21st Century America at an unbelievable pace. Once redefined, the Left can force its will on the populace by insisting its definition of words be used by media, public education, and entertainment, all too eager to act as the...

If you are 50 or older, you probably realize and recognize some ways in which American culture has changed in the past 30 or more years. I'm not sure if younger people realize this, though of course some do who read, pay attention, or do some research as a matter of interest. This said, in my view, American culture has changed dramatically and significantly since I was young, even since I was...

Human beings cannot live without hope. Even prisoners in the Nazi death camps or the gulags of the USSR talked about how they would grasp at any shred of hope to survive. The world with its layered crises makes hope an even greater need today,, for individuals certainly, even for nations. Christian hope is different from colloquial, everyday hope like "I hope my team wins next Saturday."...

Sometimes we think superstition is just the province of backward people or lands, however we define these terms, or we think superstition is just harmless fun and games. Neither view is correct. Superstition is a surrogate religious worldview based upon fear and idolatry and it is as evident in America as anywhere else in the world.  Sadly, while superstition ostensibly helps deal with fear it act...

American culture is under direct attack from our adversary the Devil, a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, the Father of lies, the source of division, who if he can divide us, can make us, the Church, weaker. This attack is not simply focused upon so-called "spiritual" or religious matters but every aspect of culture. The more American culture sets aside belief in God and moral tru...

Violence and other threats have been invading the church and other faith-based sanctuaries with distressing regularity during the past 30 years. Stopping it would be best, but no one knows how. Next best thing is to be prepared for it should it ever happen to your church. Developing a safety and security mindset, intentional plan, and action steps to follow, along with procedures are a minimum for...

Since at least the 1960s if not before, concerted efforts have been made to normalize sexuality among children, first the birds and bees, and now far beyond this to include perverted, twisted, immoral, licentious free-for-all sex for children and youth. This is happening daily in America's public schools, it's happening even more extensively and pervasively via the Internet, and it is ha...

America is now not simply a sex-saturated but a porn-saturated society. Porn drives the Internet and anyone can access it at anytime. Porn is insidious in that it entices and beguiles, drawing people in. It is ubiquitous because it is now in your face everywhere we look, in commercials, on billboards, online, in video games, and more. And porn is certainly iniquitous. It is sin, and that's th...

Revival has once again started at Asbury University, Wilmore, KY. Is this revival genuine? Will it make a spiritual impact? Revivals are not as common as they once were in large measure due to the post-Christian culture of this age. But still, God  is,  and God still works. Could it be that the Lord is speaking in a whisper, calling youth to himself and launching a revival movement that changes th...

Body image is how a person perceives themselves aesthetically or in terms of sexual attractiveness. It's a concept that is alive and well, in fact thriving, online, particularly among so-called online influencers. A long list of rationales has now been developed in an attempt to elevate or add legitimacy to what for many is simply a new way to market themselves using their bodies, especially...