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Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers is a podcast applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world, doing Christian critical thinking, or spiritual discernment, about current issues, culture, and everyday life (Phil. 1:9-11). Rogers is former longtime president of Cornerstone University and now President of mission ministry SAT-7 USA. He is the author of "Gambling: Don't Bet On It," "Christian Liberty: Living for God in a Changing Culture" and its ebook "Living for God in Changing Times," and co-author of "Today, You Do Greatness: A Parable of Success and Significance."Learn more at rexmrogers.com.
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Antisemitism is surging the world over, including in the United States. The result is harassment, threats, and violence toward Jews, by far most of them with no known contact with the perpetrator. It's just a person who hates Jews and acts on it. Antisemitism is evil, another form of sin, whether it is generated on the Left or Right. No moral justification exists. And by the way, if people hate one group, they can hate yours too. Antisemitism is antithetical to the Christian ethic of love and...
Christian Zionism is a theological and political movement that supports the return of Jewish people to the land of Israel and the modern state of Israel, based upon interpretation of biblical passages. The term is complicated in use, some employing it as a label and verbal political insult, others for those accused of being anti-Palestinian, and still others for what they believe the Bible says about God's chosen people, the Jews, and biblical prophecy. Some reject Christian Zionism as hereti...
"Making America Great Again" is all well and good, but based upon what? Economic, politics, law and order? Perhaps all these things but more than this, to restore American culture to its former strengthen and enable it to flourish, we need to remember our Creator endowed us with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We need to reassert a belief in a sovereign God, law and order and justice based upon a absolute definition of truth or right and wrong, liberty...
AI, artificial intelligence, is "taking over the world." While it's not quite like that, it seems like it for AI is now part of virtually every endeavor that uses any form of online support. What does this mean? Is AI threatening, dangerous, and if so how and how can it be managed? What positive contributions does AI make to culture and even the Church? And with all that, we're only just beginning and no one including the experts knows exactly what human beings can do with AI and where this m...
Dr. Os Guinness, Christian apologist and social commentator now in his 80s, is the narrator and featured presence in Focus on the Family produced film, "Truth Rising," in partnership with the Colson Center. Guinness believes Western culture and civilization are at a tipping point, what he calls a “civilizational moment,” a period when culture loses touch with its original purpose and dynamism. The root cause is people don’t hold to truth because they fail to hold to the Truth—that is, Jesus C...
The past few months have given us a ringside seat to considerable shifts in social and political direction in the USA, and many of us believe most of these changes are positive and long overdue. Woke policies are being jettisoned, climate change is losing its juggernaut influence, DEI is being recognized as hurtful to meritocracy and excellence, transgender ideology is backpedaling, and more. Question is, will these changes become trends in the right direction? Can they be sustained? Millions...
Mass shootings are statistically rare but then again all too common. What causes mostly men to plan to kill as many people, even children, as they can, then usually die themselves in the process? Is it humanity's evil nature or the availability of guns? For more Christian commentary see my website at www.rexmrogers.com or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #Guns #MassShootings #Evil
The Ark Encounter, located in Williamstown, KY, is a wonder to behold, a life-size ark built to the dimensions described in the book of Genesis when Noah built the ark in preparation for the Great Flood. Opened in 2016, it is amazing to see, thought-provoking, and interesting to say the least. The Ark Encounter is the vision of creation scholar Ken Ham, an Australian author and speaker who has studied the book of Genesis for most of his adult life. Ham is a young earth, biblical literalist, s...
Dr. Os Guinness is a highly regarded Christian philosopher and cultural commentator. In this second of four planned volumes, he delves into America's "agonistes" or struggle with itself and its heritage, a self-destructive conflict that could literally bring the nation to its nadir. Guinness's concern is the preservation of freedom. America became the leading nation in the free world not due to race or class but because of its intentions and ideals, it’s belief that humanity was created in Go...
Nebuchadnezzar the Great, second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigned for 43 years. He was the most powerful man in the world, yet through the prophet Daniel God warned the king about his arrogance, pride, and the trust he placed in his empire and majesty. Later, when the king did not change, God banished him into a period of insanity, only to bestow grace and restore the king to power seven years later. The King learned that pride goes before a fall, that neither rulers nor great kingd...
Pundits, parents, and the public have been talking about the decline in American culture's civility and manners for some time, and not without reason. Fan behavior at the 45th Ryder Cup in New York, the coarsening rhetoric of American politicians, and no-limits social media are evidence. Many Americans, it seems, are coming of age never having been told by older family members they should respect their elders, speak politely, obey the law, and in general "be nice." If you work in a business d...
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination freedom of speech has been a the subject of many columns, talk shows, and media reports, especially with the short-term suspension of Jimmy Kimmel by his network for comments he made about Kirk and re Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's comments on air about the killer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska. In the face of the cancel culture and political correctness movements, conservatives decried how liberals sought to silence or get conservatives fired ...
Christian revivals are taking place on public university campuses across the country. Are these spiritual experiences real? Is this genuine interest in the Christian faith? Is God reaching out to Gen Z? Based on many comments of observers, participants, and leaders, it appears students are indeed seeking God in a new way. Pray God will send his Spirit among young Americans. For more Christian commentary, see my website at www.rexmrogers.com or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #revival #...
The common sympathetic phrase "Our thoughts and prayers are with you" was in the national news following the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic Church school resulting in the death of two children and the injury of many more. The phrase oddly emerged not as condolence but rejected by national political and media figures who basically said prayers were not enough. Like so much else in American culture, this tragic event and the aftermath were politicized along ideological grounds. This po...
The sudden, startling, violent death young Ukranian refugee Iryna Zarutska, slain with a knife in an unprovoked attack, and conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk, assassinated from 200 yards with a high powered rifle in a public venue in front of thousands of students, have shocked the nation. Iryna was 23; Charlie was 31. What a horrific waste of life. What grabbed America's attention is not only the youth, violence, and tragic nature of these killings but also that both murders were reco...
Since 2023, the U.S. Open tennis championships has substituted "America the Beautiful" for "The Star-Spangled Banner" and also featured "Lift Every Voice and Sing" for its men's and women's finals. Supposedly, "America the Beautiful" is more inclusive and less militaristic than the national anthem. MLB continues to play the national anthem, though "America the Beautiful" has been added in some parks during the 7th Inning Stretch. While the national anthem is not sacred, it has represent...
The Left claims our problems are the result of family or society or America, not our responsibility. Yet a minimal review of the evidence indicates that most of our trials and afflictions in life in this fallen world are the result of our own choices, or some near us. God gave us reasoning capacity, freedom, and responsibility to be good stewards. We do not need more or bigger government that cannot fix our problems. We need to act as God has given us the opportunity and holds us accountable ...
John Wyatt and Stephen N. Williams' edited book, "The Robot Will See You Now," is a scholarly tome worth your time. Though it is now four years published, the chapters tap topics that continue to motivate, interest, and perplex anyone interested in how Artificial Intelligence and robotic technology is developing, contributing to, and possibly changing culture, in the U.S. and worldwide. Topics include science fiction, artificial intelligence, personhood and human uniqueness, sextech and simul...
Robots, or robotic technology if you prefer, and now especially with artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming a fact of postmodern life. There are more of them in our midst already manufacturing products or providing services than probably most of us know or believe. Perhaps the most compelling question facing us is how will robots, particularly those made to resemble human beings, interact with and perhaps change the dynamics of what it means to be a human being? The philosophic, religious,...
Since the Tower of Babel if not the Garden of Eden, men and women have wanted to be like God or, cut to the chase, gods. This is apparent today in the myriad sex/gender arguments that ignore biology, culture, religion, history, and common sense, and it is evident in human outlook on marriage and family. While transgenderism is in cultural retreat of late, it is still a powerful, influential mass delusion, and the idea of self-marriage is not far off. While we hurt for those who choose to purs...
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