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
173 episodes
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
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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10:00
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
Biology Is Divine Design II
The transgender juggernaut taking American culture by storm is not just about sex but about identity. It is about choosing to be God so one can determine one's own sex. It is idolatry. Transgender activists know this philosophy cannot coexist w...
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Season 3
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Episode 158
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9:42
Biology Is Divine Design
Since Bruce Jenner said, "Call me, Caitlyn," transgenderism has taken American culture by storm. No part of society has remained untouched, and the same can be said for almost all extended families. But gender dysphoria is one thing, people str...
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Season 3
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Episode 157
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9:41
Living in a Post-Truth Culture
Modernity is now overlapped by Postmodernity. Where once people believed in objective truth and reason, now they believe in subjectivism and feelings. Many, especially the young, no longer believe truth is possible. They speak of "My truth" and...
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Season 3
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Episode 156
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9:38
Bible Version Journey
Using different versions of the Bible throughout your life is probably a common occurrence for anyone who seeks to live an active Christian life. For me, it was the KJV - isn't that true of everyone over, say, 50? Then on to the NIV for a...
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Season 3
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Episode 155
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9:23
Fatherhood in America
Fatherless homes have increased significantly since 1960, so much so that the experience of children growing up in the average American household today is dramatically different from the one experienced by people born before 1970. Does this mat...
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Season 3
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Episode 154
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9:56
Losing Freedoms
Americans, as citizens in nearly all Western countries, are losing individual and personal freedoms to over-reaching governments populated by elected officials and bureaucrats who are more interested in expanding their power than doing what is ...
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Season 3
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Episode 153
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9:36
American Institutions Committing Suicide
American institutions are in a self-generated decline, largely due to officials' buy-in to values that are contradictory to and undermining of the traditional ideals that made the American experiment possible and flourishing in the first ...
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9:39
Catholic Perspectives Make News – Conservative Football Player, Progressive Pope
In the span of a month, both traditional and progressive Catholic views took a lead story position in social media and the news, the first from a professional football player's commencement address and the second from the Pope in an interview a...
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Season 3
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Episode 151
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9:54
Thinking About the Complexities of the Israel/Hamas Conflict
Israel/Hamas have been involved in mortal combat since just after the surprise Hamas terrorist attack Oct 7, 2023 upon innocent Israelis across the border from Gaza. It's a tragic experience no matter how it is parsed, but it's been interesting...
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Season 3
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Episode 150
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9:57
Two Kinds of People in the World
There are manifold ways to think about kinds of people in the world, but one way right out of Scripture is to think about "Sinners in Need of Grace" and "Sinners Saved by Grace." Either a person has asked Jesus Christ to forgive their sin...
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Season 3
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Episode 149
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9:48
Campus Implosion--Anarchy Isn't Pretty
More than 80 American public universities have experienced not simply pro-Palestinian human rights protests--that's just the excuse--but what has morphed into pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, Jew-hatred, anti-America student (with the help of significan...
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Season 3
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Episode 148
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9:51