The Generations Radio Program

We address a few questions from our listening audience. Given the scandals and apostasies of Joshua Harris, Ravi Z., etc., what does a family do with their books and resources? Do they toss them? What about pastors who refuse to open their churches in Canada, or require a vaccine to attend church? Are we prepared for suffering and persecution? We end with the story of Vanya. 

We do a meta-analysis of the Brian Houston/Hillsong worldview. We contrast Brian's books "You Need More Money," "How To Maximize Your Life," "You Can Change the Future," and "There is More—When the World Says You Can't," with the last 1,000 years of good Christian books . . . Martin Luther's “Bondage of the Will,” John Bunyan's “Pilgrim&a...

Some researchers say that it wasn’t worth shutting down the whole world economy for Covid-19. Some say 5- to 12-year-olds don’t need the shot, while others say 6-month-olds do. Who do we trust: God, or Big Science? On this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson and Adam McManus discuss the collusion between Big Science and the government, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic, the lockdowns, and the peo...

While Jesus wasn't a Marxist, He was still vitally concerned in how the temple elite were destroying widows’ houses and defrauding the people. Did He intend for everybody to sell all their goods and give it to the poor, as in the case of the Rich Young Ruler? Or was this guy tied up in so much fraud he needed to start over again? Jerry Bowyer, author of "The Maker Versus the Takers: What...

Only very briefly, we revisit Pompeii News or News from the Asylum (Fox News) on this edition of the program. This is what the end of a society looks like. But don't forget, the collapse of empires is the best opportunity for decentralized discipleship centers and missions work, unlike any other times in history. Huge opportunities await us, folks!

Yes. We need more Christians in government. But we don't need some Christians in government because they have the wrong worldview, and they don't really help the situation much. Bill Jack and Kevin Swanson talk about their experiences running for political office. What's the agenda in politics? How do we prepare? How do we watch out for the heavy-duty spiritual attacks that happen w...

Biblical justice and biblical economics are far different than the Marxist view. Here we review Tim Keller and Gustavo Gutierrez and their doctrine of liberation theology and social justice. Rendering grace or mercy to the poor is not a matter of justice. It is a matter of mercy. We contrast the world's motivation to work with a Christian's motive. Ultimately, rewards lie in the hand of...

Is the Gospel more important than politics? Is the Gospel more important than the position you take on God's law? Or, does compromise on God's law imply a compromise on the Gospel itself? We address the question of the relative importance of ethics to the Gospel. But what about leaving the church that votes for Biden? What are the big issues or the small issues when it comes to leaving a...

Some stories of redemption present a sharper picture, especially when we come upon the stories of torture and abuse. This story is especially powerful, as God's redemption comes to a man who faced serious abuse as a little boy between his second and thirteenth year. The book is entitled "The Creaking of the Stairs." Author Mez McConnell is pastor of Niddrie Community Church near Edi...

While the nation tips into unprecedented disunity and instability, and gives way to the revolutionary spirit, how does the Christian respond? We point out two very deep ditches—worshiping the beastly state on the one hand, or despising authority on the other. Avoid both at all costs!

It was the largest leap in socialism in US history under Donald Trump and then continued under Joe Biden. For the last nine months, 75% of Americans have been on regular monthly welfare payments. What does this do to the character of the nation? How does this break the back of liberty . . . and the economy?

Like the Great Commission is important to us, the Commission to eliminate 90% of the world's population is important to the other religion. It is, in a real sense, their Great Commission. The over-population myth is firmly embedded at the most fundamental presuppositional level. Even Christians have bought into it, especially those who bought the recyclable "Green Bible." We contras...

Without question, the most banned book in history is the Bible. With the communists, the Nazis, the Canadians, and the American libraries, the problem is with the social and ethical system presented by Scripture. God’s Word just cramps their style. Sometimes, it’s just a few verses. Other times, it’s just a few words, as in the case of the New RSV. Don’t forget that Tyndale was burned at the stake...

Mind-blowing. Extraordinary. Extremely intricate, endlessly beautiful, genius-level designs appear in nature and mathematics that were not discoverable until the 1980s and 1990s. We discuss fractals and other amazing phenomena in science and mathematics with Dr. Jason Lisle. 

Two issues are addressed on this edition. Attempts to impose a modern ethic over Scripture results in a whacked translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9 for the New RSV. Here is how worldview impacts language and translations of the Bible. Bottom line. . . human languages must bend to the biblical worldview, and better translations should follow. But, what happens when the Bible and its translations are m...

Your paycheck is docked. Inflation is running 10-14%. Your savings account is losing 7% per year. And your conservative bond investments you bought 10 years ago have lost about 15% in value—$4 trillion in 10 years. But the good news is that the government gave you $3,200 during COVID. Average earnings have fallen since April of 2020—a 5.4% dock in pay. Ironically, the average annual paycheck has b...

A Baltimore man is the first to receive a genetically-modified pig heart. And, Al Mohler tells us there is no reason for Christians to reject it. Or. . . is there reason? Would it be appropriate to apply Leviticus 19 to such a case? This Frankensteinian science sans the fear of God might even force us to use biblical law to assess such strangeness. The 21st century produced children born of three...

Christian charity changed the world, and then Karl Marx showed up. Americans still provide 1.44% of the GDP in charity. We're still the most generous nation on earth, but that's dropped off by half since 1924. Church giving has dropped off from 2.8% to 0.7% of the GDP since 1924. And most of church offerings go to clergy and buildings, while governments assign 20-30% of the GDP to social...

Is atheism dead yet? Eric Metaxas argues the point that the atheist position carved out in the Post-Christian West has actually become increasingly untenable. Atheism has become more anti-Intellectual or even anti-rational. How would Charles Darwin take the constant stream of evidence countering his far fetched hypothesis of advanced life forms evolving out of the inanimate over millions of years?...

Kevin Swanson and Adam McManus discuss the use of the birth control pill today. The pill is known to cause abortions, but why are a large percentage of Evangelical Christian women on it today? Should God's laws mean something to us today?

The internet is a blessing and a curse. . . a double-edged sword. There are the misguided, the unqualified, the imbalanced, the downright unhealthy and cultic, everything from the sublime and ridiculous. We give a few examples of scripture-stretching and sweeping generalizations that prove unhealthy for the churches, and then outline nine basic principles of sound hermeneutics for the layman. 

Why do 95%+ of the top selling evangelical female authors in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 tout failed marriages and broken families? This thing is way off the tracks—the dysfunctional leading the dysfunctional into. . . even more dysfunctionality. While not pointing fingers directly at one particular author, we uncover the systemic problems with the whole edifice. Why do we keep pointing back to Psa...

Ted Cruz's daughter doesn't like her father's policies, but what about President Obama's daughters and President Bush's daughters? Francis Schaeffer's son Frank is still unhappy with his father. But, while not delving into specific problems with a particular family, we go over the reasons why the hearts of the fathers and daughters/sons break down, and generational fr...

Christians are the last hope for political, economic, and social freedoms in the world. But in the present decline, how will a family pass a legacy of Christian liberty on to their children? While Christian liberty is not the freedom to sin, this liberty does begin with freedom from sin. It is only at this point that a true passion for liberty grows in the heart, to the point that we can advocate...

Russian President Vladimir Putin complains about the undermining of traditional family and faith by the abominations of the West. He's not pleased that Western values (or the lack thereof) are seeping into his country. However, Russia's Bolshevism already ruined the family a long time ago, and then, the Chinese communists quite successfully ruined the family, and then, the West's Gr...