Generations Radio

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 today, and too often Christians become willing accomplices.

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 before we get into the controversial elements? Here we deal with the fundamentals on the sabbath.

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 the nation . . . which might produce Christian senators and representatives and judges. We're a long way from that. In the meantime, the best thing we can do is get the government completely out of the business of education. It's got to be tough for public schools attempting to maintain a pluralism that includes monotheism, polytheism, and atheism at the same time. How do they pull that off?

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 years!

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 international scene.

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 crashing into his car. Since he trusted Christ as Savior, he has planted 33 churches! But Satan hates to see the advancement of God’s Kingdom. So, in the Muslim-majority country, Michael's spiritual antagonists have burned down three separate homes of his in 2007, 2013, and 2020—all because he refuses to deny Christ and follow Allah. Plus, his eldest son was kidnapped in 2013, tortured for two weeks, and left for dead at 12 midnight in the street. Open Doors lists Pakistan as the seventh most dangerous country to be a Christian. Five years ago, Michael founded an orphanage which now houses 87 children. (It costs $30/month to provide food, clothing, and medical care per child.) Providing food for the kids has become increasingly difficult with the skyrocketing 42% inflation rate. That’s why they’re raising the funds to build a self-sustaining chicken farm with 400 chickens outside the city. That will enable them to both provide cost-effective eggs and chicken meat for the orphanage, as well as a desperately-needed income stream. Send a donation made out to: Rio Grande Valley Prayer Center, their sister organization here in America, 3106 Harmony Lane, Mission, TX 78574. Write: “Pakistan Mission” in the memo. The prayer center then wires the money to a nearby bank in Pakistan.

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?