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
184 episodes
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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10:00
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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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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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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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
Love Your Neighbor--Immigrants Too?
Scripture commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, but does this include immigrants? Does it include illegal or unauthorized immigrants? Immigration can be considered on many levels, but here we examine the idea of "Love your neighbor" o...
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Season 3
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Episode 167
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Review of "Shepherds For Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda" by Megan Basham
Megan Basham's book published 2024, asks the question:“Why have so many well-known evangelical institutions and leaders in recent years started promoting causes that no plain reading of Scripture would demand, like lobbying for fossil fu...
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Season 3
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Episode 166
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9:50
Truth Matters
Truth is disappearing in Western culture; in America too. If we do not believe in truth, real, objective, facts-whether-we-like-them-or-believe-them truth, then the edifice of our civilization crumbles. Our culture crumbles, then our nation ine...
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Season 3
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Episode 165
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9:48
Going for the Gold--Golden Wedding Anniversary
Golden Wedding Anniversaries, 50 years, are not for the faint of heart. You get married, you make a commitment, you go off with your spouse, and there is no return policy. Fifty Years is a long but short time. With a thousand other voices, I ca...
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Season 3
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Episode 164
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9:38
Christian Worldview, Race, American Presidential Politics
With Vice President Kamala Harris's entrance into the 2024 American Presidential election as the presumptive nominee of the Democrat Party, and with former president Donald J. Trump's comments about her heritage, race is now an issue in the cam...
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Season 3
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Episode 163
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9:29
The Paris Olympics 2024 Opening Ceremony
Since the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony July 26 social media has been on fire with people expressing their disgust or their support for what appeared to be a representation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting, The Last Supper, featuring drag...
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Season 3
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Episode 162
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9:47
Losing A Lifelong Friend
Losing a friend is never easy or pleasant. While God told us we need not fear death, he did not say we had to like it. Indeed, God called death the enemy. It is a separation, but we know from Scripture that for those who are "saints" = those wh...
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Season 3
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Episode 161
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9:11
Western Nations and Mass Immigration
In the past decade, Western European nations and more recently during the Biden Administration in the U.S., the West has opened its borders to a literal flood of aliens or immigrants or migrants or refugees, or in the case of the US illegals, o...
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Season 3
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Episode 160
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9:27
American Presidential Politics and the Providence of God
Since former President Donald J. Trump was shot and injured Saturday, July 13, many people have observed two things: 1) there must be a "dialing back" of the vitriolic rhetoric that has come to characterize this campaign, and 2) the providence ...
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Season 3
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Episode 159
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9:44