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
235 episodes
Os Guinness and Colson Center Film "Truth Rising"
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 234
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9:51
Will Positive American Social Change Continue?
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 chang...
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Season 4
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Episode 233
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9:57
What Do We Know About Mass Shooters?
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 232
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9:36
The Ark Encounter, Williamstown, Ky
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, th...
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Season 4
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Episode 231
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9:50
Review of America Agonistes: America's 250th by Os Guinness
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 l...
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Season 4
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Episode 230
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9:55
King Nebuchadnezzar's Lessons for America
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 e...
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Season 4
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Episode 229
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9:55
Why American Culture Seems So Rude, Crude, Lewd, Mean
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 politicia...
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Season 4
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Episode 228
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9:47
Should Free Speech Ever Be Curtailed?
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 227
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9:15
What's With All the American University Revivals?
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, part...
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Season 4
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Episode 226
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9:48
Are Our Thoughts and Prayers Enough?
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 od...
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Season 4
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Episode 224
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9:39
Iryna Zarutska, Charlie Kirk, Sudden Violent Death
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 fro...
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Season 4
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Episode 225
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8:40
Does America Really Need Two National Anthems?
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 in...
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Season 4
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Episode 223
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9:29
The Self-inflicted Nature of America’s Ills
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 c...
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Season 4
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Episode 222
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9:29
Review of “The Robot Will See You Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Christian Faith” edited by John Wyatt; Stephen Williams
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 intereste...
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Season 4
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Episode 221
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9:39
The Robots Are Coming, The Robots Are Coming
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 mos...
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Season 4
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Episode 220
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9:50
Transgenderism, Self Marriage—We Are Gods
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 219
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9:24
Zohran Mamdani, Democratic Socialism, Common Sense
Zohran Mamdani, the duly elected Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City is the new Democrat Party hotshot. Just like that, this 33-year-old New York State Assemblyman with four years' political experience displaced Sen. Bernie Sanders, Con...
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Season 4
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Episode 218
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8:50
Simone Biles, Chip and Joanna Gaines, WNBA: How to Torpedo Your Brand
Few better, or worse, examples exist on how to torpedo your own brand than Simone Biles, Chip and Joanna Gaines, and the WNBA, all in the past few months. Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Biles suddenly decided trans insanity is something she s...
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Season 4
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Episode 217
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9:54
Climate Change, the Reason for Everything?
Climate change is the now the all-purpose explanation for every weather event. Indeed, climate change is now being cited to explain social or political developments like immigration, racism, riots, gender wars, and more. But there's a pro...
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Season 4
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Episode 216
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9:47
Feral Humans and the Future of America
The West, and specifically the United States, are in decline, jettisoning the values that made Western Civilization possible and allowed it to flourish, and seemingly bent upon committing cultural suicide. This can be seen in the increasingly v...
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Season 4
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Episode 215
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9:33
To Tattoo or Pierce, Or Not to Tattoo or Pierce?
Tattoos and possibly piercings have been part of the human story a lot longer than you might think, at least back to 3100 BC and probably earlier. It's just that in the 1940s-1950s tattoos were acquired by military and some others, then by the ...
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Season 4
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Episode 214
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9:55
The Issue Is Not the Issue – the Progressive Left’s War on America
An old maxim from sociology borrowed from the ancient Greeks says, "Things are not always what they seem." This is certainly the case now with what's happening in American culture wherein given issues, incidents, demonstrations, and controversi...
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Season 4
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Episode 213
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9:44
War Is Hell and Why It's Sometimes Necessary
War means destruction and death, so it is never preferable. But in a fallen world in which evil exists, war is sometimes inevitable and necessary. The motive for war can be debated. How war is conducted can be debated, but there will never be a...
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Season 4
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Episode 212
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9:27
Things Just Aren't What They Used to Be
It's probably a dead giveaway that someone is getting older when you hear them say, "Things just aren't what they used to be." But in many profound ways, serious social change has taken place and things are very different now than just a half g...
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Season 4
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Episode 211
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9:45