Oct 25, 2022 is my 70th birthday, so I thought I'd offer some personal reflections on living in a rapidly changing world. It seems like our country and culture are upside down and that there are more negative changes than positive or good ones. How do we live in this kind of intentionally de-Christianizing culture? The psalmists gave more than a few clues. For more Christian commentary, check my website, rexmrogers.com.
Oct 25, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Iran is experiencing an uprising unprecedented in the number of women in the streets. The uprising started with the tragic passing in September 2022 of Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after serious beatings. Allegedly she was arrested for "unsuitable attire," meaning some of her hair showed under her hijab. Women are now removing their hijabs and waving them as a flag of resistance. It is a time of destruction, coercive government power, and death. How then should we pray for the people ...
Oct 21, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Abusive behavior and violence are on a serious upswing not only worldwide where we've come to expect it at football (soccer) matches, but now also the past few years in the US at sports venues at every level, little kids to the pros. Not just fans or players but parents are out of control, and referees and umpires, especially for youth sports, are quitting in droves, as are youth players. The nastiness is not just about the score or a controversial call but about uniforms, rivalries, cheerleader...
Oct 10, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 49
America is fast de-Christianizing. In fact, Gen Z has been called the first post-Christian generation. So what does it mean for us that declining faith in culture is a reality of life, our moment? It means people are living in the midst of anxiety, depression, and despair, they are looking for what's real. So our task, as always, is to discern truth from error, speak the truth in love, and be ready always to give an answer of our hope in gentleness and respect. In other words, we should be real,...
Oct 03, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Stand Firm, the Scripture says, but what does this mean in the midst of the descent into madness American culture is experiencing? How do we stand firm? Certainly there is much about which to be concerned as American elites and increasingly the general population embrace values fundamentally contrary to the Judeo-Christian values upon which this country and culture were founded and flourished for more than two hundred years. But this being the case, Christians are called upon to stand for truth,...
Sep 26, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In the past few years, certainly during the 21st Century, American culture has dramatically shifted in whether truth even exists, and if so, what is considered truth. In the place of truth about God, the definition and meaning of life, the nature of sexuality, the practice of religion, where one lie after another has been promoted, embraced, and now forced upon those who resist. This podcast is a simple list of some of these lies. Disturbingly, American culture may be at a tipping point, for it ...
Sep 20, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 46
The world in which we live today is characterized by what might be called "layered crises," one on top of the other. Global pandemic, wars, rampant inflation, natural disasters on an international level, and sudden illness or disease, financial duress, anxiety or depression, broken families, and much more on the personal level. Jesus said in his prayer of John 17 we are to live "in the world" while being "not of the world" even as we are commissioned to go "into the world." So we are here until ...
Sep 12, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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 irrational, nihilistic march into slavery for if there is no truth, there are no inalienable human rights, no free...
Sep 05, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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 that debt is dangerous, enslaving, evidence of misplaced values, and a significant impediment to living a genero...
Aug 29, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom." His pain is obvious, but sadly, he has no confid...
Aug 22, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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 as quickly or as harshly but with ailments or no, some age better because they handle it better. They see the ...
Aug 15, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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 they are putting fentanyl in their bodies. Prescription medications can legitimately treat pain and other he...
Aug 09, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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 human beings, giving them moral absolutes in Scripture in order to preserve and protect their lives, then...
Aug 01, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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, immigration law or reform has been a partisan political football with both Democrats and Republicans...
Jul 26, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 38
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 still standing for truth, First Amendment freedoms, and morality. These are our new First Responder...
Jul 22, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 37
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, something God did not intend and something we need not do in a Christian worldview of the stewardship o...
Jul 19, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 36
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 lot of pushback tactics like deception, exaggeration, and cancel culture. Christians need to respond prope...
Jul 11, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 35
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 Disney is an aggressive promoter of LGBTQ+ orthodoxy. And sadly, Disney is no longer a safe place for children. For more Christi...
Jul 07, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 34
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 way, what is our Christian responsibility and How shall we then live?
Jul 05, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 33
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.
Jun 29, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 32
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 Americans today. But patriotism in recent days is considered passe by some, not worthy of our best though...
Jun 28, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 31
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, American culture, especially in education, has embraced moral relativism and more recently, critical ra...
Jun 21, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 30
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, discern, and make decisions as Christians. It is also to think again about this wonderful blessing o...
Jun 14, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 29
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 God's reconciliation and hope. For more Christian commentary, see my website at www.rexmrogers.com....
Jun 07, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 28
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 sexuality, and a long list of other values that stand in direct contradiction to the Judeo-Christian m...
Jun 03, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 27
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?
May 30, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 26
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 affirmation as far as it goes. But if that is all we do, we're in trouble, because, well, our self is untrustworth...
May 24, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 25
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 caring for the world. Jesus said to be not of the world, but in the same chapter he said to go into the ...
May 17, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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, indeed Western culture, was built upon Judeo-Christian values, these are rapidly being jettisoned in favor of a vague ...
May 10, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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 all burn in a fiery inferno tomorrow. Problem with all this is, it does not match evidence, is hyperbolic,...
May 03, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 22
