Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers
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.
Episodes
208 episodes
Habemus Papam: What Does He Believe?
In the wake of Pope Francis's passing, the Roman Catholic church has selected a new leader, Pope Leo XIV, a man from Chicago, the first American ever appointed to the papacy. The question now is: what does Pope Leo XIV believe? Who is he and wh...
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Season 4
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Episode 207
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9:32
Americans Have A Money Problem
In terms of material well-being, prosperity, and potential, the American people are the most blessed people in the history of the world. Yet we also consistently survey as less happy than citizens in other countries. One reason we are not as ha...
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Season 4
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Episode 206
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9:38
DOGE Is Not the Enemy
Since President Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by businessman Elon Musk, DOGE has pursued its assignment - reduce federal spending and improve operational efficiency, meaning identify and cut "waste, fraud,...
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Season 4
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Episode 205
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9:14
Bait and Switch: Climate Change, BLM, Planned Parenthood
American society has become tolerant, even accepting, of bait and switch initiatives regularly pushed upon us. Media elites, celebrities, especially politicians and activists engage in this deceptive tactic regularly. Indeed, certain initiative...
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Season 4
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Episode 204
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9:41
Arcane and Inane Historical Debates: Did Adam Have a Belly Button?
History is loaded with questions about which people once debated, sometimes fought to the death, or split churches, questions we now consider silly, laughable, or looney. But before we throw a rock, it does not take much to find questions being...
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Season 4
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Episode 203
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9:57
Profanity Dumbing Down American Culture
Profanity is as old as humanity. We know this from reading ancient inscriptions chiseled in stone. But we also know that use of profanity is increasing in American culture, among children and youth, politicians, just about everyone. Swearing, c...
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Season 4
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Episode 202
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9:48
Human Slavery, Trafficking, Hidden in Plain Sight
Human slavery, and the trafficking that makes it possible across international borders, is not an ancient problem but now greater than ever. Traffickers trick young women, children, sometimes men too, into traveling internationally to get a job...
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Season 4
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Episode 201
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9:36
Music in Church
Music is part of life and for some two thousand years of the history of the Christian Church, music has been both blessed and controversial, the latter because churchgoers and leaders debated and struggled to identify "The one and only holy" mu...
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Season 4
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Episode 200
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9:55
Music in Church History
Debates over music in the church did not begin in the late 20th Century. In fact, music has been a part of church or Christian history, but the styles, modes, instrumentation, and presentation have varied considerably and often controversially ...
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Season 4
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Episode 199
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9:36
Praying in Public, or Rather, When No One Prays in Public
Anyone who has attended church for a few years will recognize this scenario: You're part of a small group and the leader says, "How about two or three of you pray as you feel led, then I'll close." Then no one prays, and still no one prays, and...
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Season 4
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Episode 198
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9:33
Living in an AI World
What are we to think of AI and its many uses in this brave new world? Well, one thing is sure, AI is incredibly complex, changing by the minute, meaning increasing the number of options, and we need to consider the applications on a case-by-cas...
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Season 4
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Episode 197
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9:47
Debt, Deficits, DOGE
The U.S. National Debt is at this writing, over $36.6 Trillion, and climbing so fast you cannot keep up with the digital read-out at usdebtclock.org. That's over $107K per citizen. Yet most in the national leadership, Congress and the President...
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Season 4
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Episode 196
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9:59
Review “Christians in a Cancel Culture: Speaking with Truth and Grace in a Hostile World,” by Joe Dallas
Joe Dallas is a counselor, an expert on human sexuality from a Christian perspective. He's written several books on this topic, but I consider the book reviewed here to be one of the most practical and helpful books I've read in the last few ye...
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Season 4
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Episode 195
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9:14
The Glorious Parable of the Prodigal Son
The parable of the prodigal son is found in the New Testament book of Luke, chapter 15. It is "glorious" because it clearly conveys a Christian message of redemption, second chances, and hope. God is there, always, waiting and wanting us to ret...
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Season 4
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Episode 194
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9:36
Preserving First Amendment Freedoms
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights, though ratified in 1791, codify our most essential foundational ideals: freedom of religion and freedom of speech. These ideals define what this nation is about. What has been disconc...
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Season 4
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Episode 193
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9:54
Is Education the Forgotten Purpose of Public Schools?
Here I remember my days in public schools at a time when my fellow students and I were blessed with good teachers who taught and parents who supported them. Now we're in a much different situation, one reason President Donald J. Trump is consid...
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Season 4
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Episode 192
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9:57
Birthright Citizenship, Blessings, Inalienable Right, But for Whom?
Birthright citizenship, and its troublesome by-product birth tourism (internationals are gaming the system fraudulently), emerges in discussions about immigration. President Trump has already issued an executive order seeking to suspend b...
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Season 4
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Episode 191
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9:51
DEI Is DOA
DEI, "diversity, equity, and inclusion," has become something of a religion of the left in the last twenty years. Add to this that this approach to human resources has been accepted, adopted, promoted, demanded in a near tsunami in American edu...
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Season 4
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Episode 190
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9:29
Deportation of Illegal Immigrants
Millions of immigrants have been allowed by the Biden Administration to come into the United States across the southern border, unvetted, illegal in numbers and lack of process, some even flown clandestinely in night flights to cities that did ...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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9:48
Insurance Cannot Replace the Irreplaceable
Like many of us, I've been periodically watching reports on the Los Angeles area wildfires and thinking about them more often. Clearly these historic and horrific fires leave in their wake human tragedies too numerous to count. Peoples' lives a...
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Season 4
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Episode 188
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9:48
Meme-ing and Demeaning Scripture
Memes have become a near universal experience of contemporary life, at least for anyone who spends any time at all on any social media platform. They are print visuals, usually containing some caption that makes a humorous, poignant, insightful...
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Season 4
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Episode 187
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9:47
Hopes for the New Year
Some people make New Year's resolutions. While I don't make resolutions, I'm not against the practice. I do, though, have a number of hope(s), plural, for the new year, what I believe can, should, or even must happen for the USA to flourish. I'...
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Season 4
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Episode 186
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10:00
Review of "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
This podcast is a review of "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" by Jonathan Haidt. It is a scholarly book focused upon the emergence of smartphones in 2007, coupled with the Int...
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Season 3
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Episode 185
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9:35
Celebrating Christmas Traditions
Christmas is celebrated worldwide via thousands of traditions that have been developed over the past two thousand years since the first Nativity in Bethlehem. Scripture does not tell us how to practice or celebrate Christmas, but it gives us ro...
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Season 3
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Episode 184
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9:42
Elections, Dodging a Bullet, Sovereignty of God
The 2024 US Presidential election is in the books with Donald J. Trump the overwhelming winner. From the earliest days, I was not a Trump fan, but I gradually changed not because he's some kind of knight in shining armor but because the other s...
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Season 3
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Episode 183
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9:29