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 made subject to the worldviews of post-Christian or anti-Christian cultures? Then, we ask the questio...
Jan 18, 2022•25 min
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 been docked $3,670 because the COLA's aren't keeping up with the CPI (let alone the real inflation in...
Jan 17, 2022•26 min
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 parents, artificial insemination, surrogate wombs, millions of disposable "snowflake" children, huma...
Jan 14, 2022•26 min
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 programs. Private church and the church were basically irrelevant in the area of true Christian charity....
Jan 13, 2022•26 min
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? While we wouldn't agree with the atheistic evolutionary construct, there are still internal contrad...
Jan 12, 2022•28 min
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?
Jan 11, 2022•38 min
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.
Jan 10, 2022•34 min
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 Psalm 11? The solution to the problem is simple: The Lord is in His holy temple. His eyelids try the ch...
Jan 07, 2022•26 min
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 fractures develop.
Jan 06, 2022•32 min
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 liberty in a world that is headed towards tyranny. Join the Family Vision Conference in Phoenix, Ari...
Jan 05, 2022•22 min
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 Gramscian Marxism went ahead and ruined the family out here. Given the utter devastation these Marxists have brought ...
Jan 04, 2022•20 min
Given the present turmoil and the impossibility of returning to some sort of status quo, now how are we going to proceed with politics, the economy, and the church? How do we prepare for the great downturn in economics? And what about the church? There is a desperate need for three things: Discipleship. Preaching. The restoration of real worship.
Jan 03, 2022•33 min
After this year. . . the world will never be the same. Here is a bird's-eye view of the stunning, once-in-a millennium, earth-shaking transitions going on in 2021. Things have not settled out yet. We are still in the middle of it. But, here is a helpful summary of what God did, and what He is doing with our world. Persecutions. Devastating national coups. Economic chaos. Unprecedented national disasters. What in the world is happening on planet Earth? Here is an eye-opening summary of nations on...
Dec 31, 2021•23 min
We approach the question of conspiracies with a great deal of caution, given that there are so many theological and life-application traps surrounding the matter. How do scientists know that there are, or that there are not, long-term effects from vaccines? With what epistemological authority/confidence could we ever make such an assertion? Nonetheless, there are still some short-term studies available from which families can make some decisions. Then, we answer the question as to whether there ...
Dec 30, 2021•34 min
He gave his life for the English Bible, and we have a great deal we owe this man. But who was William Tyndale, and why was he a wanted man, and finally burned at the stake? Kevin Swanson interviews author and pastor Steven Lawson (also the editor of the Long Line of Godly Men book series).
Dec 29, 2021•21 min
How America has changed! What was once a country filled with men of character and faith has turned into a country filled with flakes. What was it that made men like Rockefeller, Henry Ford, the McKinleys, and Sam Walton different from the richest men in America today? There is no more character left, and America is falling apart at the seams as a result. So what does one do when he has reached the end of civilization? What is the solution? First, turn to Jesus Christ and acknowledge Him as Lord....
Dec 28, 2021•20 min
Anti-conversion laws are proliferating in India, Nepal, Yemen, Canada, and Australia. Fundamentalist Humanism and Islam forbids conversion to Christianity, but why is homosexuality such a sacrament to modern humanist autonomy? Should Christian psychologists seek out neutral ground on religion and ethics, as encouraged by men like Dr. Earl Warren Throckmorton of Grove City College?
Dec 27, 2021•27 min
As we celebrate this Christmas 2021, we review once more the accomplishments of this great King. Can we really say that Kings and Queens will kneel before Him? What did Christ do for the world over these 2,000 years, with the aid of His followers? What would the world be like if Jesus had never been born?
Dec 24, 2021•22 min
Back in 1980, only 6% of all deaths were due to food, alcohol, drug abuse, and suicide. Now, 21% of all deaths are "Despair deaths." Now, the U.S. leads Japan and most of the rest of the world in Despair Deaths. But why so much despair in a post-Christian nation? We also discuss the civil government's role in protecting us from ourselves.
Dec 23, 2021•31 min
Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Stock Market Crashes. More billion-dollar catastrophic events in the last two years, than anything experienced in American history. Do we have a responsibility to know the signs of the times, assuming that all of God’s works are judgment? Jesus condemned the Jews for forecasting the weather, but refusing to read the other signs of the times. What can we learn by studying economic trends and recognizing the sovereign hand of God in world events?
Dec 22, 2021•36 min
A Columbia University study finally gets the best estimate thus far on the Vaccine-induced Fatality rate. . . and survey says the COVID “vaccine” is at least 4 times, and as much as 10 times, more fatal than the COVID-19 virus itself. Yet, world governments are bound to mandate the vaccine for children as well as adults. The unvaccinated are increasingly ostracized now, and the “yellow star” seems almost inevitable for the last hold-outs. Could this be a worldwide deception, and will this tyrann...
Dec 21, 2021•27 min
After monitoring political freedom worldwide, the large think tanks Freedom House and Heritage Foundation have to conclude that freedom is disappearing worldwide. In fact, one metric finds a constant downward trend for freedom indexes since 2005. We know why. Freedom doesn't have a chance in the world unless the salt returns somehow, somewhere. When will Christians bring back the salt? Get ready to put your grandchildren in gulags and prison camps, unless something changes. . .
Dec 20, 2021•29 min
Last year, the FBI recorded a 30% increase in the murder rate—the largest year-to-year increase in recent American history. School shootings have seen a steady increase as well. We analyze the motives of kid killers, and give a few reasons why the love of so many has grown so cold in our day. However, the majority of these kids who kill are back out on the streets pretty quick. Only 3-9% get life in prison. What are the biblical solutions to the rising violence? What can parents do to mitigate t...
Dec 17, 2021•31 min
Practically the whole world has gotten obese since 1975 by a factor of 300-400%, and COVID would have been far less of a problem in 1975. Why does God ordain for COVID-19 to come now, when 75-80% of the serious cases are weight issues? Eliminating this factor, COVID death rates are about the same as the flu for the 65+ crowd, and COVID is far less lethal for the under 40-crowd. The Stage 2 Obese group is hospitalized at a rate of 42 per 10,000, the Stage 1 Obese group at 23 per 10,000, the Overw...
Dec 16, 2021•35 min
The question of the evolution of man is the Battle of Thermopylae in the War of the Worldviews. Who is this Lucy? And was the Neanderthal a human? What about the South African Homo Naledi? Does the genome point to Eve? And did she live 400,000 years ago or 6,000 years ago? Kevin Swanson interviews Dr. Terry Mortenson for a careful, rational assessment of whatever data is found in the bone fragments, and the latest research on the Genome project. Can we trace the genome back to our original mothe...
Dec 15, 2021•34 min
The question of resisting or playing along with the system comes up more and more, especially as the system plays an increasingly intrusive role in our lives. Shall we require our 12-year-old children to take the shot? Or more to the point, shall we sign up for welfare payments, or what about Social Security and Medicare? To what extent does a Christian participate?
Dec 14, 2021•26 min
The public school system is collapsing with the encouragement of sexual anarchy, fighting, and ethical chaos. Discipline is practically impossible now. So what happens when tyranny can’t handle the anarchy? But, how do Christian families deal with fights and conflicts in the home? We discuss spanking, behavioral modifications, and how God wants us to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Dec 13, 2021•28 min
Americans are dealing with a 50% pay cut since the 1980s, and a 10% pay cut this year. . . but hardly one in a hundred people will figure it out. We explain how a nation is run by a gang of thugs, but then, almost everybody is involved in the dishonesty. What happens when the economy has turned into one gigantic Grab Fest?
Dec 10, 2021•28 min
Persecution has hit the Christian-owned flower shops, the bakers, and photographers in the West. . . but now pastors? Finnish law enforcement and courts are concluding that the Bible is hate speech. And a pastor is about to pay for using the Bible still. At least 30 churches still teach the faith in Finland to a minimal degree, such that they would uphold the basics of a Biblical ethic. America has stronger foundations in liberty, and we have a shot at the faith surviving here—but only if people...
Dec 09, 2021•28 min
Major scientific breakthroughs do not happen every day. They require a combination of inspiration, perspiration, and, of course, the mercy of God. This particular medical invention has contributed to saving millions of lives. Kevin Swanson interviews Dr. Raymond Damadian, the inventor of the first Human Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine in 1977. Dr. Damadian gives God the glory for this amazing technological breakthrough. Was this the reason he was refused the Nobel Prize in 1984? This story wi...
Dec 08, 2021•26 min
