The Generations Radio Program

Christian-produced film is coming into its own after a decade of work. The Kendrick brothers put the genre on the map with films like Fireproof and Courageous. Even Rotten Tomatoes had to reluctantly give their latest production, “Overcomer,” a 50% positive rating, along with the 98% audience approval rating. Why was this movie so engaging and so powerful on the audiences? Why is the world incapable of presenting a film with any sense of goodness, grace, light, power, encouragement, reconciliation and true victory over evil? We interview Stephen Kendrick on their latest film “Overcomer.” New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

He has his own coffee shops now. . . 825 of them in Europe. Nero is turning into the "good guy" in history. When worldviews shift, the good guys turn into the bad guys, and the bad guys turn into the good guys. Is that what is happening with Nero, the arch-tyrant of history? National Geographic suggests that this may be the case. Kevin Swanson speaks of Nero's legacy, as well as what this could portend for the post-Christian West. Should Christians stay engaged in politics? We still think so. And so do 49% of Americans, according to a recent survey.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The rapidity with which the Boy Scouts have come down after welcoming homosexuality and gender fluidity is breathtaking. The period of time between the celebration of a sin and the manifestation of the destructive effects of the sin has decreased significantly in just the last ten years. The Washington Post is concerned, and the conservative world critiques. But, why doesn’t the world talk about real solutions? There isn’t any sense in cursing the darkness, unless we are willing to start lighting candles. We light candles on this program.

We were surprised to read that the pope had switched religions. He has come out and confessed him to be a new humanist, advocating an education that puts man in the center, instead of God. He is calling for an internationalized education, quoting Hillary Clinton’s “It takes a village to raise a child.” Humanism has crept in and dominated education over 800 years, but now humanism has become the codified religion in the minds of Catholics and Protestants. However, we call for a reformation in education — placing God at the center, and Christ preeminent. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Why must EVERY Christian star who wants to make it in the big time, from Carrie Underwood to Lauren Daigle, make proper prostrations to the gods of homosexuality? Why must they pass muster on the Ellen Degeneres show? Daigle is the biggest Christian (female) star of the last twenty years—but will she stand up for Jesus Christ as Lord? Why must we shift to pronouns when we speak of the Lord in popular songs, while in the limelight of the world? Followers of Christ must be infamous. . . not famous in the eyes of the world. They must convict the world of sin, as Jesus did.

Military and police work is part of God’s ordination, and yet there are spiritual, mental, and emotional challenges involved — often after retirement. Is PTSD a real phenomenon, and what does it look like? How does one minister to men who are suffering from PTSD after a career in the military? Here is one man’s story of the intensity of real battle, the return home, and the spiritual challenges he faced.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

There is one worm in the gourd, one little fly swimming around in the ointment of modern life — STI’s. The New York Times editorializes on the shame culture that still surrounds STI’s. We are reaping the whirlwind now, with the massive increase in drug deaths and STI infections. We talk about God’s redemption, as well as the physical consequences that surround a dissolute culture. What are the affects, for example, of pornography addictions on the next 25-50 years of a marriage?New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The last thing you want to do is split your church or support group over debates on essential oils. Opinions fly fast and furiously. But Christians insist on liberties on the use of God’s plants, while at the same time requiring truthfulness. The constant quest for a fountain of youth and for a panacea for all ills is something Christians are not interested in. Here are principles for handling snake oil and God’s good oils.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

High-profile divorces like Todd and Sarah Palin’s have a symbolic significance for the state of a nation. But, then there are high-profile solid marriages like that of our Vice President. Is a man’s or a woman’s marriage of more importance and significance than the government policy or political impact they tout? In a day when too many homeschool marriages, young conservative, and Christian marriages are falling apart around us, Kevin Swanson offers some tips on divorce-proofing the young marriage.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Christianity Today reports on the rise of what they call the “Plato-loving, homeschool elitists.” But, do we really want to raise elitists? Does pride and elitism really help us, at the end of the day, or is it counter productive to all that is good? We develop a little more on what Parmenides, Zeno, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Sophocles, and Euripides really taught. We pull apart their worldviews and point out that their meta-ethic and metaphysic was fundamentally flawed from the outset. The futile thinking of the Greeks destroyed their big empire in 7 years, and brought them to birth-implosions, abortion, and sexual dysfunctionality. . . sort of like the Western world today.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

How do Christians influence our world today with the increase of terrorism, rising persecution for Christians, and gross immorality? Where are the Daniels, Josephs, and Esthers today? David and Jason Benham speak to their latest book “Living Among Lions” in this interview with Kevin Swanson. The Benham brothers speak of how to avoid the fear of man, and how to maintain strong convictions and compassion at the same time. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Lifeway research has found that 65% of Protestant churchgoers say they can “walk with God without other believers.” Only 9% strongly disagreed with that statement, and felt the church community was very important for their walk with God. But, what happens to an ear when it is cut off from a body? Isolation is a means of apostasy, especially in the modern age. The church has lost respect, big time. But so have pastors — they are among the most despised lot in the country today.

We resolve the conflict between Alyssa Milano and Senator Ted Cruz. How could you love God, love your daughters, and love the bad guy who is breaking into your house? Kevin Swanson urges family defense and shooting out of love for God and love for your neighbor. Why do liberals set God’s law against love? Also, we discuss the new liberalism of identity politics.

We go through a litany of examples of the rising police state and tyranny in this country. Kevin Swanson brings up the common scenario of guys sitting around smoking pot and watching Alex Jones. While not addressing the content of the material, what is wrong with the scenario itself? And, what is really the solution? We also bring out the testimony of our Lord and the Apostle Paul in terms of how to handle tyranny. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Hong Kong is the most free nation in the world according to the Heritage Foundation’s Freedom Index, and this nation is fighting tooth and nail to retain these freedoms. The reason, of course, is that freedom is only possible because of the Christian heritage of 175 years of missionary work in Hong Kong. We play real footage of Christians singing Christian hymns on the streets of Hong Kong as they seek freedom from communist rule. This is a major indication of Christ’s influence in the east, after 2,500 terrible years of tyranny in China. Listen to the exciting story of western freedoms, and the Christian influence that produced it — and has waned in our generation.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Scientists are hypothesizing that 99% of life was wiped out by some catastrophic event that happened 2 billion years ago. Yet, there is 1000X more proof pointing to a worldwide flood some 4,000 years ago. We go over the data, and find explanations for the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Rim and the massive lakes of molten lava on the side of the moon facing the earth.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

An NBC-WSJ poll finds that the younger generation is shifting away from an appreciation for country, family, children, and church. So what’s left? Self, work, money, play, and no kids. Also, tolerance is the last value left. What is this? We struggle for a definition, and discover that it really doesn’t mean much of anything at all. Why has family and love for children faded? Abortion and latch key kid ratios went sky high between 1975 and 1995. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

There is a strong sense with modern man that a gigantic volcano or a big earthquake is about to happen. Everybody knows that judgment is coming. However, modern man prefers chance cataclysms that will destroy the whole world as against the judgment of a righteous, holy, personal God. He would rather have a meaningless existence in a fatalistic universe than face a God who holds him responsible for his moral behavior. We also list the most evil cities in America.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Conservative and Christian leaders are exhorting parents to get their children out of public schools now. But Christian leaders were saying the same thing in the 1950s. Will the pastors and the parents from Christian homes act now? We must not just react, however, we must embrace a thoroughly Christian discipleship for our children.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Will the $10 billion settlements against pharmaceuticals solve the opioid death crisis in America? How did the $1 trillion war on drugs yield anything, besides a 17.5 fold increase on drug deaths? We contact Satan’s salvation plan and the state salvation plan to God’s powerful, effectual, gracious, real salvation through Christ.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

America has received the most God-blessed, self-consciously Biblical heritage of any nation in history. Our country was born out of the ripest fruits of the 16th century reformation. And yet . . . we are no longer the godly nation we once were. Humanism has slowly dominated our families, government and social institutions over the last 150 years. Will we return to the biblical foundation that made us great, or will we go the way of the modern empires of Britain, Spain, and France?New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Why are the Ivy League schools offering "The Economics of Star Trek" and "History of Comics," and turning up with a F-score on national academic surveys? Schools like Colorado Christian University, Regent University, and Thomas Aquinas College get A scores? The purpose of college is less and less for preparing young people for life and for work. The worldview is self-consciously humanist and more self-consistently destructive. What is of essence is that young people have been indoctrinated in the core religious subjects of Marxism, Egalitarinaism, Class Envy, Radical Humanism, Self-Determination, and Self-Sexual Determination.

If you were taking the Bible seriously, how would you make 1 Timothy 2:9-15 non-offensive at your local semi-liberal Christian college? Should you just go ahead and throw the whole Bible out, and start over on creating a more acceptable type of religion? We take a look at the controversy surrounding complementarianism, the accusations of misogyny. . .and find the controversy itself is indicative of a whole wrong way of looking at. . . well. . . everything.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

There are the good presidents and the bad presidents in history — but it can be difficult to identify the best presidents. That’s because there are those who say they are Christians but have bad policies, and there are those who don’t profess to be Christians with good policies. Shall we prefer a profession of faith or fruit. . . or both?New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The high-profile sex-criminal Jeffrey Epstein seemed a little upset that "criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration." Indeed, the pagan world in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India,and the Muslim world was saturated in slavery, sexual coercion, and pre-marital fornication. It was a nightmarish world. There is no other word for it. But, when Christ came, He turned on the lights and transformed the way the world looks at marriage and sexual purity. We trace the laws of consent to directly after the Magna Carta and King John’s coercion of the daughters of the lords. It was the Christian world that changed everything - no thanks to the Muslims, the Hindus, the Buddhists, and everybody else.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

If the BBC and the Discovery Channel believed in God, how would this change their view of the world and their productions on the wonders of nature? What is the explanation for the ugliness, the cuteness, the wisdom, the intricacies, the variety, the power, and the beauty of the animal world? Why are their poisonous snakes, predators, and parasites in the world around us? Here is a discussion on how we might restore a sense of wonder and purpose, and an eschatological hope into our study of nature all around us.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Fifty years ago, 400,000 young teens and twenty-somethings descended on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in upstate New York. The gathering signaled a revolution, but not with guns and Molotov cocktails. It was far worse. The devastation is all around us. “Woodstock won.” We contrast the Browns and Johnny Horton of 1959 with Joe McDonald and the F word of 1969. The fallout is still happening.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The abandonment of faith or the concession of shaky faith on the part of Marty Sampson, the Hillsong songwriter leads to a discussion on romanticism and religion. The equation of authenticity to the intensity of emotional outpouring is a fatal mistake committed too often by the new generation. There is the false impression — The most emotionally expressive person is the most pious, holy, genuine, and committed person. That is the worldview of Romanticism. . .and it has infiltrated a great deal of modern religion in the western world. How would you gage authenticity of faith, if you were to leave music to the side?New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Beth Moore is backing off calling homosexual sin as sin. We react strongly against a namby-pamby, softy-wofty Christian message — that soft-pedals the law and soft-pedals grace and Christ’s violent work on the cross, destroying sin and death. Why is there such an antipathy towards strong words, certainty, faith, and conviction on the part of the Christian snowflakes?New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

It was the most publicized martyrdom of the 2000s. Three Christian men were most viciously tortured and killed in Malatya Turkey on April 18, 2007. Today, we interview the widow of martyr, Necati Aydin, and we tell this story that really needs to be told, again and again. How does one recover from this? How can one rejoice and be exceedingly glad after such horrific experiences as this? Shamse Aydin’s testimony is among the most inspiring of our times. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory promises to rattle around for a long time, following his reported “suicide” in a NYC prison. His association with two presidents, one prime minister, and a British prince further extenuates the suspicions of perfidy at the highest levels. We offer a biblical view of conspiracy theories, and how Christians must insist on truth and only speak truth in these matters. We react to facts and require a biblical interpretation of those facts.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Apparently, the Boy Scouts are next in line for the scandalous behavior that has surfaced in the Roman Catholic Church and hundreds of other institutions and organizations in America. But, whence comes this scourge? We attempt to explain the worldview shift and the apostasy that underlies the modern, abusive, destructive, horrible, evil plague that fell upon children and society in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. We trace the roots of the sexual autonomy and self-oriented abusive mindset to the Warren Court decision of 1957, when the men in black redefined obscenity to allow for just about everything. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

China is removing mentions of God and Christ from children’s classics like ‘Robinson Crusoe’. How is this different from American government-funded schools? The worldview war around the whole world is centered on the children, and the curriculum used for their education? Whether it is communist China or American private and public schools — there is a tug-a-war going on over the hearts and the minds of our children. Who will win?

The media using mass murders to work a political agenda. The people are looking for environmental causes that influence these tragic events. But, we encourage our listeners to seek the truth — the truth concerning trends, the truth concerning solution for societal problems, the truth concerning right and wrong, and an avoidance of hypocrisies. While others are pointing at guns, video games, militaristic government, and other external influences as the cause for this violence, we turn to the words of Christ. The problem is the human heart, and the human mind. We address the worldview and the underlying thinking that is going on in the murderous minds of the moderns.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Why does Lots’ wife look longingly back into Sodom? What is it about Sodom? Joshua Harris denies the faith, and promptly proceeds to join the “pride” march. We contrast the “intellectual honesty” of Joshua Harris with the PCUSA and ELCA on this edition of the program. What’s our response to this reality our Lord spoke of, and the Apostles warned of in Hebrews, Jude, 2 Peter, and 2 Timothy?

No generation is without stories of true heroes of the faith. In our generation, one man will retain a place in the annals of Christian history until the end of the world. He joins the ranks of Justin Martyr, Polycarp, Blandina, John Hus, George Wishart, Patrick Hamilton, and the two Margarets. Haik Hovsepian was an Iranian bishop, and martyred for Christ in 1994 even while he was doing all he could to save the life of a friend. The story is best told by his own son, Joseph, on this edition of the program. We pray this moving interview will inspire our listeners to give up all for Christ.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

In a somewhat symbolic move in which an R.I.P. sign is placed over the entire western world, the two nations of New Zealand and Northern Ireland finally relent to killing babies. This is the end of the Christian West, since pagan human sacrifice ended in the West. In 1066 AD, the last human sacrifice to Radigast was completed. Iceland ended infanticide in 1000 AD, and Ireland cast out the druids by 600 AD. Now, it is over. And, it all started with Russia, Karl Marx, and the humanist philosophers of the 19th century.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Shall we put a sign up in front of our homes “America - Love it or Leave it”? Why are some nations more corrupt than others? We tackle the subject of patriotism, proud nationalism, and the problem of presidents taking God’s name in vain. America is the proudest nation in the world, but how will that do when facing God’s judgment? New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Oregon state has mandated teaching the homosexual religion in geography, civics, history, and economics. This word becomes a “frontlet,” similar to the Deuteronomy 6:7 mandate for the Christian form of education. Why then, would Christian parents still send their children to schools that integrate humanist ideology so tightly into every subject? We discuss how to speak to parents whose children are still in these schools. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

There’s good news in American and British Christianity. There is a solid, committed remnant that has been hanging in there over the last 35 years. The percentage of folks believing in Young Earth Creation hasn’t changed much at all since 1983. It’s the lukewarm pew warmers that get spewed. Over the years, we come to realize it’s those who rush to compromise, it’s the seeker-sensitive crowd, it’s the squishy elements that fade away pretty fast.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

There is no mass of internal contradictions and incoherencies to be found anywhere like what you get in the ramblings of modern atheists. There are almost as many atheists in Britain as there are Christians. We do our best to list the internal contradictions and tensions in the atheist worldview, quoting from George Carlin, Robin Williams, Richard Dawkins, and other leading atheists of the day.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

While the Christian woman rejects the proud, independent, feminist vision for womanhood, the alternative is not a flaccid, weak, and faithless wife and mother. Mary Kassian, author of a new book, “The Right Kind of Strong” paints a picture with careful biblical balance here.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

This time the economy is facing — not the housing bubble — but what is called “the everything bubble.” Is a worldwide depression in the making, now that America has ratcheted up its overall Debt to GDP by 20% since the last recession? It’s time somebody told the truth. The debtor is servant to the lender, and our present government is making America the tail again. The federal deficit is 54% higher than it was when President Obama handed the reins over to the Republican. How does the Christian gear up for the next big depression?New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Atlantic Magazine recently published an article titled “Where Have all the Children Gone?” Cities in America are shrinking, because of the quickly plummeting birth rates. Nowadays, people see cities as a place where the young and childless can go to have fun and live for their own pleasures. What should a Christian's view be in a world of selfishness, where people are swapping capital for kids? Kevin Swanson addresses this topic on this edition of the Generation radio program.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

His books sold a million copies in the 1990s—it was the best selling Christian book in the homeschooling movement. . . on courtship. Now, Josh Harris made a public announcement he’s leaving his wife, and he’s toying with leaving the faith. That’s the substance of a recent interview conducted with him by Sojourner Magazine. The zeitgeist has taught the millennial the lesson of doubt. How do Christian families react to the steady flow of apostasies and weakening in the churches? What are the lessons to be learned? Maybe we shouldn’t have bought the book in the 1990s.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

In 2018, a Christian man, Philip Zodhiates was sentenced to three years in prison for helping a born-again Christian woman escape her same-sex partner who was trying to take her child away from her. In this edition of the Generations radio program, Kevin Swanson interviews Linda Wall about the Philip Zodhiates story.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The Christian gets booted from “The Bachelorette” because of his stance on pre-marital fornication. The contrast between the genuine Christian and the fake is increasingly obvious even to the national media. Here is a portrait of the “Plastic Jesus” that has come to characterize much of American religion. She testifies, “"I have had sex and, like, Jesus still loves me."New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

Why are kids books and movies picked up for Christian kids normalizing lesbian and homosexual families? Why is this press to condition the kids so universal it is even employed in books by favorite Christian kids author, Sally Lloyd-Jones? Toy Story 4 includes a homosexual moment, in an effort to normalize perverse relationships. We define this “normalization,” and then address the question, “Why do Christian pick on the sin of homosexuality over all the other sins?” Picture: thewordpoint.com, used by permission.New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com

The nightmarish stories still coming from the boarding school experiment continue to issue. As investigations continue on a Japanese missionary boarding school abuse allegations, Kevin Swanson gives his personal testimony from his upbringing in Japan. Also, we include a little discussion on “sleep overs” for the kids. Do our children and their interaction with peers require more oversight or less today than forty years ago?

Have you ever wondered who was the worst villain in history? Who would you say was the most wicked man in the world? What about the most wicked woman of all time? Then, what about the most courageous man, and the most courageous woman? You may be surprised at who we put at Number One. New kids and family podcast from Generations - TeachMeTheFaith.com