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
193 episodes
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 3
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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 3
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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 3
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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 3
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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 3
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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 3
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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 3
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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
Rainbows, Sexual Choice, Christian Teaching
It's impossible to avoid seeing rainbows in the marketplace, not usually depictions of natural or real rainbows but symbols of the LGBTQ+ movement. While not everyone in this movement agree on all points, it is indeed a movement because so many...
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Season 3
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Episode 182
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9:51
Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out
Some of you, like me, may have had a mother that quoted that verse to you when you were a kid: "Be sure your sins will find you out." Either way, it is all the more relevant and certainly true in what now is a Cyber Age where we are under near ...
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Season 3
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Episode 181
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9:08
"Thanks Giving" During Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a rare precious tradition that combines Christian theology and the best of Americana. It's a special time when gratitude can be expressed for family, friends, a blessed nation, and a loving Lord. In a time when angst, anomie, di...
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Season 3
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Episode 180
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9:08
The Unique American Experience and Christianity
America has called the "First New Nation," a "Great Experiment," and a Christian nation. Each of these phrases have been the source of extensive historical research. Whatever your preference, clearly biblical Christianity made an enormous impac...
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Season 3
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Episode 179
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9:53
What Robinson Crusoe Teaches Us About Adversity
Adversity is a fact of life. Everyone at every level of society experiences adversity, and indeed, if they have not, they just haven't lived long enough. The fictional Robinson Crusoe, a character and story developed by Daniel Defoe and publish...
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Season 3
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Episode 178
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8:49
Are Nation States Legitimate?
Ever wonder why we have nation states in the world, and are they legitimate? Why do nations even bother to maintain borders? Scripture repeatedly references nations. The English word is translated from Hebrew or Greek, meaning people groups who...
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Season 3
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Episode 177
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Are We Happy When Our Enemies Die?
The Scripture tells us to love and pray for our enemies. Needless to say, humanly speaking, this is difficult to do, particularly for believers involved in war like what's happening in the Middle East. But even without this kind of violence, mo...
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Season 3
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Episode 176
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9:51
Revisiting The Death of Discussion
Here I am revisiting a topic from two years ago--actually longer than that, for I did a podcast on this subject in 2022, wrote about it...
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Season 3
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Episode 175
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9:57
The Decline of Western Civilization
Prominent scholars, among them the late Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer, have been saying for some time that Western Civilization is foundering. Its foundation is cracking and it may be in decline. An inexorable decline? Only God knows. But there is m...
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Season 3
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Episode 174
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9:57
10/7 Hamas Massacre One Year Later
It's been one year since Hamas invaded Israel in a surprise attack resulting in about 1200 dead, 250 or more hostages, and a record of soulless brutality that ranks it among the worst incidents of man's inhumanity to man. War in the Middle East...
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Season 3
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Episode 173
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9:36
Should Pete Rose Be Inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame?
Pete Rose died this week at 83. By any measure, he was one of the greatest baseball players we've been privileged to watch. But he is not in the MLB Hall of Fame. Why, because he gambled on his own team's games and was declared permanently inel...
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Season 3
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Episode 172
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9:45
How to Pray in Times of War
Sadly, war is a fact of life in a fallen world. It is horrible, "hell" General William T Sherman called it. So how do we pray in times of war? Do we pray for an immediate ceasefire? Do we pray for "our side" but not the enemy? Do we pray for ev...
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Season 3
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Episode 171
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9:48
"You're Perfect Just the Way You Are," But Are We?
Current culture and pop theology repeatedly tell us, "You're perfect just the way you are." But are we? Are we happier, less anxious, or medicated? Why is it that mental health problems are being described in crisis terms, yet we have more ther...
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Season 3
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Episode 170
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9:39
What Does the Bible Say About Guns?
Guns are a major current controversy that repeats with every mass shooting or shooting at a notable person like the former president, Donald J. Trump. As Christians, we are called upon to apply God's Word, will, and moral instruction to our liv...
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Season 3
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Episode 169
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9:33
Spiritual Awakening in the American University
Year 2023 saw several unplanned, unsponsored revivals or religious awakenings take place on American public university and private college campuses. Beginning year 2024 academic term a similar experience has occurred at Ohio State University. I...
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Season 3
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Episode 168
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9:29