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
267 episodes
Fathers More Important Than Ever
Fathers are key to healthy children becoming mature adults. Absence of a father, inattention of a father, engagement with a bad father can decimate, even destroy a child's life. Many of the social pathologies America is experiencing today track...
Nuclear Family: State of the Union
The nuclear family, sometimes called the traditional or natural family, Dad, Mom and a few kids, has been under duress since the 1960s. Earlier it was social trends, cultural change, economics, education and employment decisions, that put...
Sports Betting Still a Bad Bet
Sports betting in the USA is on a roll, and the gambling missteps or crimes of high profile athletes and coaches does not seem to have slowed this juggernaut. In 2018, the Supreme Court allowed states to determine their own approach to sp...
Social Change in My Lifetime
Change is a fact of life, some good, some not so good. In my three score and ten years American culture has witnessed extensive change. I'd argue much of it is not good and that we are not better off than we used to be -- technologically maybe,...
Multiculturalism Is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Multiculturalism has, along with woke DEI, one of the religions du jour of the intelligentsia for about fifty years now. It sounds good. Everyone no matter their religions, values, practices, ways of life, nationality, we'll all just meld toget...
Antisemitism in American Society
Antisemitism has been called the world's "oldest hatred." Jews, who the Bible calls God's "chosen people" through whom the Savior, Jesus Christ, came to the world, have been the focus of harassment, persecution, conspiracy theories, and various...
Persecuted Christians in Nigeria
Persecution of Christians worldwide is at an all-time high, with over 360 million Christians (1 in 7 worldwide) experiencing high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith. Nigeria is considered one of the most dangerous places i...
What Guides Your Decisions?
We base our decisions on assumptions, values, presuppositions, what Francis A. Schaeffer used to call "pre-theoretical commitments." These guiding values can come from a wide range of sources but at bottom, they are religious because we are rel...
U.S. National Debt Ticking Time Bomb
The U.S. national debt stands at $39 trillion. Then again, it does not stand. It keeps climbing. You can watch it on the US National Debt Clock website. It's mesmerizingly scary. To say the national de...
July 4, 2026 the 250th USA Birthday—Will We Make It?
July 4, 2026 is the USA's 250th birthday. But with the division, polarization, hyper-partisanship, leftism, and now Islamism afoot in America, more than a few pundits are wondering aloud if America is on its last legs. Patriotism is down signif...
Freedom vs Security in an Open Society
We are likely on camera almost everywhere we go today. We live in a mass surveillance, track and trace society and the tech is getting more powerful by the month, now adding AI to the mix. For citizens, and for law enforcement, there is a...
Olympics Return to Athletic Sex Sanity
Well, it took a while, but the International Olympics Committee has finally returned to biological, historical, moral, athletic sanity by ruling that women's events are for women and men's events are for men. No crossovers in the name of transg...
The Political Left is Now Everywhere and Dangerous
The political Left has now surpassed traditional Liberals in national political influence in academia, media, and more. Whereas Liberals generally want to reform America because they believe in the country, its founding ideals, and its potentia...
Is It Ever Appropriate to "Just Give Up" On Someone?
Most of us meet someone if not more than one person in life who is, well, in a word, disgusting, or someone impossible to get along with, or maybe someone threatening, evil, or dangerous. What then? Is it OK to just walk away? To just "give up"...
Violence and Moral Equivalency: USA vs Iran
At this publication the USA and Israel are at war with Iran. Much has been made in media that this action represents aggression by the US and Israel, seemingly ignoring forty-seven years of consistent aggression and violence by Iran against Ame...
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia—Gravestones of Nihilism
Assisted suicide, euthanasia, or the umbrella term assisted dying are now in vogue in several European countries, Canada, and increasingly in the United States. If Canada's experience is any guide, what starts as compassion for the suffering es...
Considering My Mortality--and Yours
Nothing like the unexpected death of a friend or acquaintance to bring the reality of mortality front and center to your thoughts. Scripture says, "It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment," (Heb. 9:27), and a cursory ...
Sports Betting Is a Threat to Sports, And to the Bettor
In 2018, the Supreme Court of the US let the tiger out of the cage, decriminalizing sports betting. Now, with states jumping on the gravy train sports betting continues to attract ever greater numbers of bettors, particularly young men. Problem...
Selective, i.e., Biased Media Coverage
Can we believe anything we hear or view in media today? It's an interesting question. Point is, we need to discern what we are being presented because media is itself selective, biased, and at times untruthful. This is exacerbated today by Amer...
The West and Advanced Nations Not Having Enough Babies
Population decline is no longer a future projection but a present reality. The West, if not the world, is well into a shrinking and aging population trend. The USA's population replacement rate is 1.6, well below the 2.1 children per child-bear...
Free Speech, Protests, Churches
Jan. 19, 2026, about three dozen protesters entered the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, disrupting an ongoing worship service and chanting “ICE out” and “Renee Good." Some of the protestors claimed a First Amendment right allowing t...
Lawlessness, Courtesy of Elected Officials?
Elected officials on the Left and Right, Progressives, Democrats, and Republicans have become increasingly bold and often crude in their public comments attacking the opposition or decrying some development they do not like. Traditional four-le...
Government as Physician, Protector, Savior
With the democratic socialism trends in the USA, perhaps we're overdue to pause and think about what really government can do. Not what we want it to or hope it can do, but what it actually can do. Then as importantly, what should we not ask go...
Pornography Among (Christian) Friends
Sad to say, but pornography is now as big a problem in the Christian Church as it is in culture. And porn is ubiquitous, a fancy word for "everywhere" and instantly, easily accessible on the smart phone in hand. One point of this podcast is tha...
Islam in America—Freedom of Religion and Its Limitations
Islam is a growing religion in the United States, so for Muslim followers who are American citizens, the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion applies. Some commentators have worried, though, about certain Islamic practices do not co...