Here we summarize a basic worldview on war—the cause of war, the rules of warfare, assigning blame, and ways to avoid war. The best way to avoid war is Proverbs 16:7. When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. How might our leaders please the Lord?
Years ago, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris called for "natural selection to take its course." That was what they put on their website, and then they killed 13 innocent students and staff at Columbine High School in the Denver Metro area. One father still feels the pain of it. Brian Rohrbaugh recounts that terrible day that he lost his son to the shooters, and what he learned from it. How do the schools open the door for physical violence and soul violence?
Evangelicalism is coming apart on the question of repentance. Does following Jesus include leaving the world and the LGBT lifestyle? Does a sinner need to be repentant to be part of a church, or should the homosexual, the homosexual “married” guys, the pedophiles, and others feel comfortable joining the rest of the sinners sitting in the pews? Did Jesus draw lines or circles? What does the parent do when a young son or daughter comes “out of the closet?” Pray. Grieve. Call to repentance. Then, w...
Following the recent terrorist attack on Israel, we review the history of Palestinian wars. Worldwide, Islamic adherents grew by 700 million people in 23 years. Christian adherents flatlined since 2000. And Judaism dropped. The Islamic state is on the rise in the world. Iran. Afghanistan. Indonesia. Nigeria. Turkey. Palestine. Tensions with Iran are on the increase. Israel appears to be leaning secular. The West is "secularized." But which would you have? A "secular" state? A Jewish state? An Is...
A recent survey discovered that Donald Trump used religious language much more than any other president in 100 years. And another survey found that Trump is considered the most religious candidate for president among Republicans. What gives? We compare Donald Trump with Grover Cleveland. And what is that which constitutes substantial faith—especially when contrasted with superficial religious phraseologies?
Another survey discovers that pastors at mainline Protestant churches are far more likely to identify as liberal than the congregants in the same churches. Too many young pastors are overwhelmed with the conflicts and the spiritual battles that go on in the churches. We recommend restoring discipleship and mentorship in the local churches instead of relying so heavily on large seminaries.
The government's endorsement of sexual perversion is increasingly leading to the government's endorsement of child sexual abuse. Phillip Zodhiates set out to help a child who, according to witnesses, was held by the state in a homosexual home, and abused. Now, the civil case against Phillip could very well establish precedent to normalize and legalize child sexual abuse. Phillip joins us here and lays out the control of the battle. Powerful forces are working hard to break through the final barr...
Will conservative talk show hosts or pastors take the prophetic call to this generation? Tucker Carlson refers to abortion as human sacrifice, and ties in pagan cultures throughout history. Why has America reverted back to human sacrifice with such enthusiasm? And what are the differences between pagan cultures like the Carthaginians and our world today?
The worldwide faith tradeoff from North and West to South and East was laid out in the 2023 release of Gordon Conwell Seminary's Status of Global Christianity Report —a stark illustration of the collapse Western Christianity. Christian adherents in Europe and North America as a percentage of the world population dropped by more than half between 1900 and 2023 (from 21.9% to 10.5%), while the percentage of Christians in Asia, Africa, and South America increased from 6% to 21.9% of the world popul...
Southern Baptist leading voice, Al Mohler, remarked recently that Andy Stanley has departed from the Christian faith. But what is it that constitutes abandoning the faith? What are the irreducible elements of the Christian faith? We can entertain intramural debates with the Christian churches and denominations, but there is a limit. Where is the line?
All the Republican years, the years of Conservative media, the Rush Limbaugh years, the Heritage Foundation, the Reagan Years, the Fox News years turned out to be a waste of time, a waste of rhetoric, a waste of votes, a whole lot of hot air, and much ado about nothing. We always got more government deficits and budget increases under Republicans. The 80,000,000 Americans that went to the polls to vote for conservatives, smaller government, and economic conservatives . . . were completely duped....
“The overwhelming majority of children today lack the spiritual training and basic discipleship they need during their critical childhood years.” That according to George Barna, our guest on this edition of Generations. A sermon a week is not enough. A twenty-minute Sunday school lesson is not enough. How do you inculcate a biblical worldview in your child? Are parents living and teaching the Gospel, and exemplifying biblical truth in the home?
Here we discuss the power of "positive affirmations," flat earth, and Big Foot. But really, the discussion goes deeper into the modern babel, anti-establishmentarianism, "Remnant-ology," the nature of truth, hyper-individualism, a fixation on the unknown or the untestable or unprovable, and the interpretation of prophetic language. Would you trust science that doesn't fear God? Would you trust science that fears human conspiracies?
The share of the world living under democracy (where people vote for their leaders) has dropped to 29%, down from 54% back in the year 2000. That's the lowest number since roughly 1950, as monitored by Freedom House. But why did freedoms begin disappearing from the earth somewhere around the year 2006? After 1,000 years, the heritage of freedom brought to the world by the Christianized West is finally disappearing. We discuss the various types of economic and political freedoms and provide a str...
The pagans are back in California, Nevada, and Indiana, and with them comes the ancient practice of human sacrifice. But human sacrifice is unacceptable in a Christian nation—and Christian governments must prosecute these false religions that open the door for it. These demonic religions are on the rise as Christian faith wanes. Who is opening the gates to this spiritual darkness, and how do we shut the gates to it now?
Here we are arguing over whether to kill a 6-week-old child or a 15-week-old child. Americans are okay with killing kids now. And Republican politicians are waffling on abortion bans. Imagine what it would be like to have a wise leader in Washington, leading a nation . . . or leading any nation for that matter? With the dearth of wise and righteous leaders, our nations and states have lost their way. We draw from Proverbs and other Scriptures to define what wise leadership would look like....
Can governments do whatever they want to do? Can they take all your money at gunpoint? Can they confiscate your children? Can they engage in genocide at will? Or is there a point at which they violate God’s law? The rise of statism or the embracing of the god-state has been devastating to the country and has affected the church and church leaders in the modern world. The question as to whether God is God or the state is God is an important one. Here are seven statist sins committed by the state ...
What ever happened to the 10 commandments? Digging into the first four, consider this: America is one of the most unrestful nations on Earth. This nation is more irreverent and tends to take God's name in vain more than any other nation, and the visual medium seems to attract a fixation verging on idolatry. Do we break these commandments at a more fundamental, principle level, and fail to realize it? And, what about the 4th commandment? What are the basic requirements of the 4th commandment befo...
College enrollment in the US is off by 4,000,000 students. Fifty-one million people quit their jobs in 2021 and 2022. At this critical juncture in Western history, with the collapse of the nation’s character and with unemployment rates soaring around the world . . . the restoration of economies will have everything to do with mentorship and a focus on character.
The US Supreme Court tried to get Coach Joe Kennedy's job back, but the high court is powerless to change the heart of America. The coach lost his job anyway after SCOTUS ruled in his favor. Christians fight for symbolic battles, but they are losing the cultural war at every front. If a Christian school wants to fire an Islamic coach who prays on the field six times a day, do they have that right? What we need is a Christian state, but the only way to get that is to restore Christian churches to...
It was the largest robbery ever pulled off in human history—amounting to $49 trillion. Federal Reserve policy surreptitiously shifted most of the wealth of the nation over to the top 10% of the population over the last 10 years. But that's nothing compared to what the Russians pulled off when shifting the wealth of the nation from the communists to the oligarchs. Who would have known that Marxism would have turned out this way? A real disappointment to the utopian socialists of the last 175 year...
The United Nations Education Framework 2030 promises to export social justice, inclusion, LGBT, and all the other wokey programs to the world. And they are making progress! However, the one thing standing in the way of this international agenda is . . . parents, and more specifically, Christian parents who are committed to bringing their children up in the paideia of the Lord Jesus Christ. Kevin Swanson speaks with Kevin Boden from HSLDA International on the battle for freedom on the internation...
Every day on The Worldview , we feature another story of the persecution of believers somewhere around the world. Well, today, on Generations Radio, guest host Adam McManus interviews Michael Parves, a 61-year-old native Pakistani missionary, whom McManus met personally at church in San Antonio, Texas, who has experienced persecution first hand. After growing up as a nominal Catholic who attended church twice a year, God got Michael's attention in 1993 when he miraculously survived a train crash...
Do only men face sexual temptation, or is this something women deal with as well? Bethany Baird and Kristen Clark speak to these temptations and the victory that is found in Jesus in this interview. Bethany and Kristen have coauthored a new book called Embrace Your Sexuality with Passion, Purpose, and Purity .
Veganism has increased its adherents by six-fold in the last six years in this country, and it is catching on around the world. The West took on these ideas as early as the 1830s with the father of Louisa May Alcott. The Economist declared 2019 as "the year of the vegan." Christians are often caught up in this confusion of ideas and doctrine of demons (1 Tim. 4:1-4). We define the doctrine of veganism and then consider the weaker brother who eats "only vegetables" from Romans 14:1-3.
The US is pretty excited about the "gospel" of drag queens and woke, and now the US government is exporting this "wonderful" news to Ecuador, Botswana, and Hungary. Other nations are not as enthusiastic about it, however. The world is assembling once more for war—the 7 billion people who are holding on to some semblance of traditional values and sanity, and the 1 billion people in the West who have lost all of that. Nuclear arsenals are growing fast. Where are we headed?
One of the most successful pop musicians of all time, Jimmy Buffet has gone on to meet his Maker. But, what about his pedestrian philosophy that has appealed so much to the masses? “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” What appeared to be light and happy-go-lucky turned out to be a life of hopelessness and despair. We discuss the Jimmy Buffett worldview of irresponsibility, escapism from reality, the capitulation to the bondage of sin, and the futile attempts to ignore or bypass the c...
Is “The Chosen” TV series the greatest phenomenon of 21st-century Christianity? There have been over 500 million views of the series thus far. The Christian news sites erupted when Voddie Baucham suggested that the series was a 2nd-commandment violation. Do these pictures bias towards His humanity, and does that present an imbalanced view of the God-man, two-natures, distinct but not to be separated? What about picturing His deity? How does that violate the second commandment? We’re talking abou...
The worst economies in the world this year are Argentina, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Sweden, Czech Republic, Yemen, Chile, Estonia, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, as reported by Yahoo Finance. Two-thirds of these—the worst economies—are Socialist, countries turning socialist . . . Woke Western countries. The worst states in the US are following the same pattern—Blue states and welfare states. People are moving out of these states to safer havens. Welfare program...
The most popular movie of the day is all about feminism and more fundamentally, self-determination. Sadly, Christian movie reviews and evangelicalism appear extremely confused on the issues that are most likely to destroy family, society, and their churches. Contrast the Barbie worldview with 2 Peter 3:1-5, 1 Timothy 2:8-15, and Titus 2:3-5, and what do you get? The death of manhood and womanhood is the death knell to society, and this film will help seal the deal.
