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The Jimmy Rex Show#634 - Ben Rogers - Top Influencer On Twitter Discusses How Nothing In The World Seems Normal AnymoreIn this episode of The Jimmy Rex Show, Jimmy sits down with Ben Rogers—better known as Dr. Manhattva—an internet thinker known for his viral insights on health, finance, philosophy, and systems. Ben shares his unique journey from Yale and Wall Street to full-time writing and deep inner work, sparked by a health scare that changed the course of his life.They dive into Ben’s transformation through yoga, somatic therapy, and personal exploration, as well as his sharp takes on the modern economy, identity, and living authentically in a noisy world. His ability to blend ancient wisdom...
2025-07-2356 min
Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersReview “Christians in a Cancel Culture: Speaking with Truth and Grace in a Hostile World,” by Joe DallasJoe Dallas is a counselor, an expert on human sexuality from a Christian perspective. He's written several books on this topic, but I consider the book reviewed here to be one of the most practical and helpful books I've read in the last few years. It covers topics like cancel culture, homosexuality, racism, gender identity, abortion, so you might think this is a book about politics. But it is not. This is a book about how to live in a cancel culture and interact with people whose values might be fundamentally different from ours, assuming you are a Christian...
2025-03-1009 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Unique American Experience and ChristianityAmerica 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 impact upon not onlly the United States but Western Civilization. The USA, God be praised, is still a land where religious liberty is honored, and with it freedom of speech. It is a place where all people, including Christians, can learn to discern how their faith can contribute to lives and culture. May this struggle, this Great Experiment, continue. For more Christian commentary and...
2024-11-1809 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat 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 lives and the world in which we live. So what does the Bible say about Guns? Is it immoral to purchase or own a gun? Is the only purpose of guns to kill human beings? Should governments institute forms of gun control, gun buy back progrrams, or outright gun confiscation? What does the Bible say about weapons, sin...
2024-09-1609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSpiritual Awakening in the American UniversityYear 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. Is this the precursor to more such events during this academic year? Is God working as a counter to the spiritual wasteland many higher education environments have become, some the site of aggressive, destructive, and often antisemitic demonstrations? For more Christian commentary from Dr Rex M Rogers see www.rexmrogers.com, or YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #university #revival #spiritualawakening #campus #demonstrations #antisemitic
2024-09-0909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLove 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" on both a personal or individual level and a political or national level. Certainly, no matter how immigrants arrived, they are here and they are human beings who we are to love by building bridges of friendship and ministry in Christ. But on a political or national level, the idea of loving our neighbor does not preclude nationhood, borders, vetting, stewardship...
2024-09-0210 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTruth MattersTruth 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 inevitably will crumble. This sounds melodramatic and hyperbolic, but it is historically demonstrable. No truth, then no right or wrong, no fact or fiction, no beauty, no better or best, no certainty; When this happens, immoral actions increase, and sooner or later, government steps in to control, to oppress. Without truth, tyranny is possible, or inevitable, and America is flirting with all of this. Truth matters...
2024-08-1909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersMemorial Day ReflectionsMemorial Day is, or should be, both a day of remembrance and a day of gratitude for those who served and sacrificed, some giving the last full measure of devotion, to protect and preserve freedom, democratic government, and a safe and secure homeland. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.
2023-05-2909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTruth Speaks to IrrationalityContemporary American, if not Western, culture is engaged in a pellmell rush to embrace nearly everything historic cultures considered lacking in common sense. I call this a celebration of irrationality. It goes to worldview. The current cultural zeitgeist has rejected moral absolutes for moral relativism. Many negative social pathologies result. American culture cannot long sustain itself upon these baseless, senseless ideas, attitudes, values, and practices. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.
2023-05-2406 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPerspectives on Artificial Intelligence ThreeArtificial Intelligence is suddenly everywhere in media. The coverage is a product of new excitement, a new story, and the release of the now, fastest-ever growing app, ChatGPT, Nov 2022. Some coverage delves into the presumed arrival of futuristic science wherein humanoids will soon take over the world. Other coverage is more practical, proclaiming AI is a cultural, corporate tipping point or game changer, much like the predictions about the Internet in the 1990s. Thing is, we don't know what we don't know. Is AI intriguing and potentially greatly beneficial? Yes. Should we also consider a few caveats before deciding...
2023-05-2209 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPerspectives on Artificial Intelligence TwoMore on Artificial Intelligence. It's a brave new world we are entering so it bears thoughtful consideration. AI as it is called, like other new tools and technology, offers progress and potential pitfalls, especially in terms of concerns for individual liberty and democratic government, moral choices, and the ease with which fake and fiction come to dominate our lives. For more Christian commentary see my website at rexmrogers.com.
2023-05-1709 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPerspectives on Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer found only in sci fi books and films. It is much more than the idea of sentient robots suddenly running amok. In fact, this is the least of our concerns. AI in the form of generative text development tools like ChatGPT and a host of others are already being used in a variety of businesses and other applications. ChatGPT, released for free to the public in Nov 2022 is the fastest growing app in history. AI sounds good, and indeed much of it may be, making possible additions or contributions to our economies and l...
2023-05-1609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDoubt, A Personal StoryEveryone doubts. Some of the greatest minds of the Christian faith have expressed doubts, not unbelief, doubt. There is a difference. Os Guinness's classic, God in the Dark: The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt is highly recommended. Doubt is part of my spiritual journey, especially when I was coming of age. I never doubted the existence of God, but I certainly doubted whether I was truly saved. This was long before I learned more about trusting God and his character and work, and before I read some tremendous works like Guinness' God in the Dark. I also...
2023-05-0809 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersNot Liberal But Left, That's the ThreatLiberalism has typically been thought of as the opposite of Conservative, and in a few ways it is, particularly its outlook upon big government. But a far more pernicious threat now exists in the ideology of Leftism that is not only the opposite of Conservative but the enemy of everything for which conservatism stands. Anti-God, anti-human, anti-democracy Leftist ideologues can now be found in positions of influence at every level and within nearly every sector of American culture. Leftists who now often go by Leftist Progressives or simply Progressives, an oxymoron if there ever was one, tear down, damage...
2023-05-0109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersCrime, Safety, Law and OrderCrime seems to be the one constant, ubiquitous occurrence in American society. While there was a time when one could move about without much thought to his or her safety, that time seems to have gone. Public officials who have bought into "woke," which is to say Marxist, ideas about economics, class, race, and gender now regularly refuse to prosecute crime, contending it's not a matter of individual choice but of racial or economic oppression. Law-abiding citizens bare the greatest negative burden of this trend. But lawlessness, crime, criminality are all rooted in the soul that lacks or has...
2023-04-2409 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersMarriage, 1 + 1 = 1Marriage is a creation and gift of God for all humankind. Some have claimed the end of marriage is soon upon us. Some have promoted the idea. But new trends suggest otherwise, and more importantly, ending marriage does not fit God's will and reality. A good marriage is gold, as is the spouse who makes that possible. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.
2023-04-1709 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTransgender--Not Transition But TransformationTransgender people need, as the trans movement claims, "affirmation and acceptance," but not to transition to a sexuality that does not align with their biology but affirmation and acceptance as human beings made in the image of God who makes no mistakes. Trans ideology is now experiencing something of a historical cultural moment. It is a juggernaut that, despite trans activist claims that trans people are marginalized, has taken the country by storm and is now the dominant view in government, education, media, entertainment, and more. Now it is moving rapidly into corporate marketing, all while transgender people represent 1...
2023-04-1309 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersHijacking Normality, Reality, and TruthIn the hands of the secular progressive Left, words are weapons. They can be redefined at will to accomplish the Left's goals, and this has happened and is happening in 21st Century America at an unbelievable pace. Once redefined, the Left can force its will on the populace by insisting its definition of words be used by media, public education, and entertainment, all too eager to act as the Left's advance guard. When this happens, even conservative websites and news sources find themselves using terms as defined by the other viewpoints they say they are against. In so doing...
2023-04-1009 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersJust How Much American Culture Has Changed Since My YouthIf you are 50 or older, you probably realize and recognize some ways in which American culture has changed in the past 30 or more years. I'm not sure if younger people realize this, though of course some do who read, pay attention, or do some research as a matter of interest. This said, in my view, American culture has changed dramatically and significantly since I was young, even since I was in my middle years. I don't mean that we now have iPhones or the Internet. I'm not talking about tech. I mean how much culture has changed in how...
2023-04-0409 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersJust How Much Has American Culture Changed Since I Was YoungIf you are 50 or older, you probably realize and recognize some ways in which American culture has changed in the past 30 or more years. I'm not sure if younger people realize this, though of course some do who read, pay attention, or do some research as a matter of interest. This said, in my view, American culture has changed dramatically and significantly since I was young, even since I was in my middle years. I don't mean that we now have iPhones or the Internet. I'm not talking about tech. I mean how much culture has changed in how...
2023-04-0409 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersHope in a Hopeless WorldHuman beings cannot live without hope. Even prisoners in the Nazi death camps or the gulags of the USSR talked about how they would grasp at any shred of hope to survive. The world with its layered crises makes hope an even greater need today,, for individuals certainly, even for nations. Christian hope is different from colloquial, everyday hope like "I hope my team wins next Saturday." The latter is a vain wish about what might happen. Christian hope, however, is a faith and trust in the historical fact of what has already happened, the sacrifice, death, burial, and r...
2023-03-2708 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSuperstition Is Alive and Well in AmericaSometimes we think superstition is just the province of backward people or lands, however we define these terms, or we think superstition is just harmless fun and games. Neither view is correct. Superstition is a surrogate religious worldview based upon fear and idolatry and it is as evident in America as anywhere else in the world. Sadly, while superstition ostensibly helps deal with fear it actually fosters it, or merely masks it like whistling in the dark. Christianity, however, is based not on fear but a loving Heavenly Father and knowable truth. Christian believers should not therefore be superstitious. A...
2023-03-2009 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSpiritual Warfare on All FrontsAmerican culture is under direct attack from our adversary the Devil, a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, the Father of lies, the source of division, who if he can divide us, can make us, the Church, weaker. This attack is not simply focused upon so-called "spiritual" or religious matters but every aspect of culture. The more American culture sets aside belief in God and moral truth, the less accountability anyone feels for his or her actions. Anything goes. Nothing matters. No purpose. No meaning. Life is absurd, and actions like abortion wherein we employ infanticide to eradicate...
2023-03-1409 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersShooters, Safety, and Security in ChurchViolence and other threats have been invading the church and other faith-based sanctuaries with distressing regularity during the past 30 years. Stopping it would be best, but no one knows how. Next best thing is to be prepared for it should it ever happen to your church. Developing a safety and security mindset, intentional plan, and action steps to follow, along with procedures are a minimum for today's conscientious church leadership. Yes, there are arguments against doing so - God will take care of us, It costs too much, Guns should never be brought into the church, etc. But while...
2023-03-0609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSexualization of America's ChildrenSince at least the 1960s if not before, concerted efforts have been made to normalize sexuality among children, first the birds and bees, and now far beyond this to include perverted, twisted, immoral, licentious free-for-all sex for children and youth. This is happening daily in America's public schools, it's happening even more extensively and pervasively via the Internet, and it is happening in children's and youth product advertising, entertainment, and more. The consequence of this is not just prudish adults standing around saying, "Tsk Tsk," but a host of mental and physical health problems now rampant among America's children...
2023-03-0309 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPornography: Insidious, Ubiquitous, IniquitousAmerica is now not simply a sex-saturated but a porn-saturated society. Porn drives the Internet and anyone can access it at anytime. Porn is insidious in that it entices and beguiles, drawing people in. It is ubiquitous because it is now in your face everywhere we look, in commercials, on billboards, online, in video games, and more. And porn is certainly iniquitous. It is sin, and that's the problem. Porn debases both the producers and the consumers, dealing degeneracy and destruction to everything and everyone it touches. Unfortunately, Christians seem to be engaging in porn as much as the...
2023-02-2809 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersChristian College Revivals - Asbury University and MoreRevival has once again started at Asbury University, Wilmore, KY. Is this revival genuine? Will it make a spiritual impact? Revivals are not as common as they once were in large measure due to the post-Christian culture of this age. But still, God is, and God still works. Could it be that the Lord is speaking in a whisper, calling youth to himself and launching a revival movement that changes the face of America in the next generation? Only God knows, but we can watch and pray for an American youth culture mired in cynicism and nihilism. We can pr...
2023-02-2309 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersBody Image OnlineBody image is how a person perceives themselves aesthetically or in terms of sexual attractiveness. It's a concept that is alive and well, in fact thriving, online, particularly among so-called online influencers. A long list of rationales has now been developed in an attempt to elevate or add legitimacy to what for many is simply a new way to market themselves using their bodies, especially of course women. Older women who fought the battles of the Women's Liberation or MeToo Movements are not all pleased by current trends. All this might be predictable among those whose values do not...
2023-02-2109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersGrammys, Debauchery, Culture WarsThe Grammy Awards are the music industry’s annual recognition of outstanding achievements in the music arts - and with increasing regularity, utterly prurient, immoral presentations. This happened most recently in the 2023 and 2021 awards shows. It's not that these "artists" should have their First Amendment freedoms curtailed. It is, though, worth considering what is appropriate for public, mass communications over primetime television. There once were decency standards. No more. And pundits to argue the Culture Wars are an invention of Puritans and prudes say more about themselves--they have little or no moral foundation--than they do the conservatives or Christians th...
2023-02-1508 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTragedy, Theodicy, and TheologyCrises, tragedies, happen almost weekly throughout our lives in a fallen world. When they do, especially the most severe, human beings ask existential questions: does God exist? Does he care? Theodicy is one way of understanding such times, for this is a study of God's justice in allowing evil, suffering, or trials and tribulations to exist. Theology brings us back to the person, character, works, and promises of the God of the Bible. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.
2023-02-1408 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhen We Are AfraidHave you ever been afraid? I have. It's especially discomforting when it involves a loved one facing an illness or if it is prolonged. But the Lord said he will never leave us nor forsake us. And the Psalmist David reminded us that when we are afraid we can trust in God. There is much in the Psalms about facing life's fears. The key is to tell God about our anxieties but not stay immersed in them. Rather we tell God and then, as David did, we rehearse the character, works, and promises of God, again and again as...
2023-02-0706 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEvidence of Declining Christian Influence in CultureFor several decades, Christian scholars have warned that Christianity is being jettisoned from American culture, at least in terms of influence similar to what it exercised for the first two hundred years of the USA. This displacement of Judeo-Christian values directly affects what values people embrace, how they choose to live their lives, and thus what kind of culture America is becoming. What we see now is an increase in every form of human social pathology, which can be rooted in people's rejection of what God said in his Word would allow human life to flourish. But for Christians...
2023-01-3008 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDoomsday DebtDuring WWII, there were those who thought Adolf Hitler was the Antichrist and that he and the Nazis were bringing an end to the world as we knew it. Then there was the Cold War of the 1950s-1960s, when we thought thermonuclear war would end the world. We carried our fear and concern re nukes into the late 1970s and early 1980s when I was in graduate school and we often discussed Mutually Assured Destruction and ICBMS. In the early 2000s, it's been extremism, one radical ideology after another. But could it be, in God's providence, that what...
2023-01-2309 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe New Secular, Legalistic PseudoreligionWoke philosophy, sometimes marketed under the terms Social Justice Ideology or Critical Race theory, is the new, legalistic pseudoreligion of American culture. Its adherents operate with a cultish worldview, hold to a code they consider sacrosanct, expect all others to bow to this code, and then reject all who do not agree, including much about America's past and culture. This pseudo religion, because it subsumes the individual into the group and because contrary ideas are verboten, is inherently authoritarian, seeking and depending upon the coercive power of the state. This pseudoreligion now dominates public education, government, the military, and...
2023-01-1609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersFinally, Some Pushback on the Trans JuggernautTransgenderism, or trans ideology, has moved across American culture like an avalanche, brooking no resistance and demanding acceptance by all lest one be considered a hater. This incredible and overwhelming ideological steamroller has, for the most part, been accomplished since 2015 when the Supreme Court of the United States recognized the legality of same-sex marriage. After that, it has literally been an anything goes environment for those promoting sexual liberation. Now transgenderism, like other sexual orientations, is considered by many and in some points of law as a civil right. If you disagree or otherwise resist trans activists' demands, you...
2023-01-1110 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Sad Case of Cuba's What Might Have BeenCuba, the largest island in the Caribbean just 103 miles from Florida, has been dominated and destroyed by a socialist government and economy since 1959. With 3,500 miles of pristine white sand beaches and an average temperature in the 70s and 80s, Cuba could have been an island paradise like Hawaii. But socialism decimated the economy, the people, and the nation's prospects and it is a sad case of what might have been. For more commentary, see my website at rexmrogers.com.
2023-01-0909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersNew Year's ReflectionsMany people make New Year's resolutions. Probably more than who actually keep or fulfill their resolutions. Often dieting is part of this, but so can choices that reinforce a healthy lifestyle and glorify God, or resolutions that recognize the need to be faithful and true in this chaotic zeitgeist in which we now live. For more Christian commentary, check the website, rexmrogers.com.
2022-12-3007 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersChristmas ReflectionsThe tone or tenor of messaging on major media seems to shift dramatically in the week following Christmas. On the run-up to Christmas, it's all season's greetings, good will, peace, hope, blessing, and immediately following Christmas on the run-up to New Year's Day, it's mostly loud, riotous, partying, drinking, excess, me-me-me, and pleasure in the here and now. It's a dramatic shift. Test this by watching programming on Christmas Eve and then again on New Year's Eve. In the real Christmas story, Mary, the likely teenager who was the mother of Jesus, was, along with others, "amazed" at a...
2022-12-2405 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersIdeas Have Consequences, Today and TomorrowIdeas have consequences. In other words, what we think and believe, matters, because our ideas work themselves out in our attitudes and behaviors. If we embrace bad or immoral or evil ideas, our actions are likely to follow suit. If we embrace good or moral or wholesome, biblical ideas, our actions will show accordingly. That's why the Apostle Paul said in Phil. 4:8, "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things." He knew what the positive result would be.In t...
2022-12-2009 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSame-Sex Marriage Means Other Sexual Boundaries Will Be PushedSame-sex marriage, legalized in Obergefell v Hodges (2015) is now being reinforced by the Respect for Marriage Act soon to be signed into law. Now that same-sex marriage is here to stay, it is not rocket science to think that other sexual boundaries will soon be pushed - in fact they already are. The next focus of the Sexual Revolution that began in the 1960s is now sexualized childhood. This is already apparent and everywhere in public education from kindergarten to graduate school. Premature sexual expression and permissiveness is de rigueur in public education.How Christians should respond and li...
2022-12-1310 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDealing with Anxiety in Response to Trials, Illness, and Bad NewsIf you live long enough, you will face trials, trauma, difficulties, maybe even anguish-producing developments in your life. It's part of living in a fallen world. We generally respond to these developments with a number of negative, if quite human, emotions, like anxiety, worry, fear, despair or desperation, discouragement, fear, and more. Americans in particular seem to be attempting to deal with problems via a virtual epidemic of opioids and other anti-depressants. These expensive, addictive, and dangerous drugs may deaden pain but do not provide a long-term solution to healing and peace. In Scripture, the Lord instructs us "d...
2022-12-0706 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Bones Davis You Should KnowMy Grandpa Lewis "Bones" Davis was the spiritual patriarch of our family. Not a man of formal education, position, means, or vast accomplishments, he was nevertheless an exemplary spiritual and life counselor sought by people from many counties around. His influence was extensive and continues long past his home going to heaven even unto this day. His Christian faith was deep and his testimony strong, so his wisdom was noteworthy and powerful. Question is, are you and I a Bones Davis in someone's life? For more Christian commentary see my website rexmrogers.com.
2022-11-2808 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThanksgiving, Religious Liberty, IdentityThanksgiving Day is a uniquely American holiday dating back 400 years to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. It's a time for remembrance, hopefully family and faith, and gratitude. I am grateful for a country where religious liberty is yet part of our experience. I am thankful, too, for my identity as a child of God, not an ephemeral identity rooted in sex, race, ethnicity, position, talent, class, etc. I am thankful for Christian parents, Dad in heaven and Mom who turns 91 this Thanksgiving day. For more Christian commentary, check my website at rexmrogers.com.
2022-11-2109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersFeeding the Body, Feeding the Soul, Making a Difference in CrisesThe debate is an old one that has come to various generations in different forms. Should we meet only people's spiritual needs, the Gospel, or meet their humanitarian needs, the Social Gospel? Is the latter essential, necessary, a good thing, or can it be a displacement of the former. Certainly we're commanded in Scripture to care for other human beings' needs, physical, emotional, social, economic. Feeding the body. So that's not a debate, or should not be.Clearly, though, we're commanded in Scripture to share the Gospel, to address people's spiritual needs that are foundational t...
2022-11-1506 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersIs Recreational Marijuana Good and Wise?Marijuana, once considered a gateway drug, has now gone mainstream, both medically and recreationally. But why, and is this a good and wise choice? Medical marijuana may offer some benefits for those suffering various pains, but research is not at all complete, nor is "the science settled." Plus, there may be safer alternatives. The choice to use medical marijuana should be made carefully. Recreationally, it seems Americans have forgotten why marijuana was outlawed in the first place, that there were indeed good reasons for doin so. Recreation can turn into negative personal and social side-effects very quickly. From a...
2022-11-0709 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLosing the Battle of VocabularyIt strikes me that most of public discussion--certainly in news and social media--dealing with controversial social and moral issues is based upon words, i.e., vocabulary, that is defined by the Left. So if you disagree with certain social and moral changes, you have already lost half the battle because you've accepted the use of the terms provided by those with whom you disagree. The abortion debate has long experienced this phenomenon but not its a matter of course in virtually every significant culture war debate. Carefully defining our terms and when appropriate using different terms is now an...
2022-11-0108 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersBirthday Reflections on Living in a Rapidly Changing WorldOct 25, 2022 is my 70th birthday, so I thought I'd offer some personal reflections on living in a rapidly changing world. It seems like our country and culture are upside down and that there are more negative changes than positive or good ones. How do we live in this kind of intentionally de-Christianizing culture? The psalmists gave more than a few clues. For more Christian commentary, check my website, rexmrogers.com.
2022-10-2509 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPraying for IranIran is experiencing an uprising unprecedented in the number of women in the streets. The uprising started with the tragic passing in September 2022 of Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after serious beatings. Allegedly she was arrested for "unsuitable attire," meaning some of her hair showed under her hijab. Women are now removing their hijabs and waving them as a flag of resistance. It is a time of destruction, coercive government power, and death. How then should we pray for the people of Iran?
2022-10-2107 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersViolence At A Sports Venue Near YouAbusive behavior and violence are on a serious upswing not only worldwide where we've come to expect it at football (soccer) matches, but now also the past few years in the US at sports venues at every level, little kids to the pros. Not just fans or players but parents are out of control, and referees and umpires, especially for youth sports, are quitting in droves, as are youth players. The nastiness is not just about the score or a controversial call but about uniforms, rivalries, cheerleaders, you name it. A while back, an University of Alabama fan traveled a...
2022-10-1107 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLiving in Post-Christian AmericaAmerica is fast de-Christianizing. In fact, Gen Z has been called the first post-Christian generation. So what does it mean for us that declining faith in culture is a reality of life, our moment? It means people are living in the midst of anxiety, depression, and despair, they are looking for what's real. So our task, as always, is to discern truth from error, speak the truth in love, and be ready always to give an answer of our hope in gentleness and respect. In other words, we should be real, and this will be our greatest testimony to...
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Jurassic Park CastEpisode 29 - Big RexWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 29 - Big Rex
In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley returns to chat with me about:
How, long after Jurassic Park in 1993, elements of the novel continue to reappear in subsequent films in the franchise! How much of Jurssic Park: The Lost World is from Crichton's 1990 novel? How about Jurassic Park III? Lots!
Yeah, but how about the Jurassic World installments, what pa...
2022-09-291h 56Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat Does It Mean to Stand Firm in a Time of Cultural Chaos?Stand Firm, the Scripture says, but what does this mean in the midst of the descent into madness American culture is experiencing? How do we stand firm? Certainly there is much about which to be concerned as American elites and increasingly the general population embrace values fundamentally contrary to the Judeo-Christian values upon which this country and culture were founded and flourished for more than two hundred years. But this being the case, Christians are called upon to stand for truth, which at this time could be our greatest testimony. For more Christian commentary, check rexmrogers.com.
2022-09-2608 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersHow Long Can a Culture Last Built Upon Lies?In the past few years, certainly during the 21st Century, American culture has dramatically shifted in whether truth even exists, and if so, what is considered truth. In the place of truth about God, the definition and meaning of life, the nature of sexuality, the practice of religion, where one lie after another has been promoted, embraced, and now forced upon those who resist. This podcast is a simple list of some of these lies.Disturbingly, American culture may be at a tipping point, for it is not logical or historically demonstrable to believe a culture can...
2022-09-2009 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLiving in the Midst of CrisesThe world in which we live today is characterized by what might be called "layered crises," one on top of the other. Global pandemic, wars, rampant inflation, natural disasters on an international level, and sudden illness or disease, financial duress, anxiety or depression, broken families, and much more on the personal level. Jesus said in his prayer of John 17 we are to live "in the world" while being "not of the world" even as we are commissioned to go "into the world." So we are here until the Lord calls us home. How then should we respond t...
2022-09-1208 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersMen Can Have Babies, and Other New "Truths"In this age of moral relativism, literally anything goes because truth itself is under attack. No longer is there anything that can be said to be obvious, common sense, or the evidence of nature or natural law. There isn't even anything that is said to be defined by divine creation. Truth is whatever people want it to be. Sounds good. Sounds like freedom. But what it really is is an irrational, nihilistic march into slavery for if there is no truth, there are no inalienable human rights, no freedom, no science or certainty, no law, no trust, just anomie...
2022-09-0510 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDebt, the Good, the Bad, the UglyDebt is now as American as apple pie. It seems no debt is beyond our consideration. Personal debt per capita is at an all-time high and the US National Debt topped $30 trillion for the first time in January, 2022. We are mortgaging our children's and our grandchildren's futures, which is not only unwise, it is immoral. Scripture does not declare debt a sin, but it does repeatedly warn that debt is dangerous, enslaving, evidence of misplaced values, and a significant impediment to living a generous life. President Biden's student loan "forgiveness" program is an example of incurring more debt while...
2022-08-2909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersAnne Heche and Assurance of the AfterlifeActress Anne Heche died tragically this month in an avoidable accident, probably caused by driving under the influence of drugs. What is most distressing aside from her death is what her 20-year-old son said:“My brother Atlas and I lost our Mom. After six days of almost unbelievable emotional swings, I am left with a deep, wordless sadness. Hopefully my mom is free from pain and beginning to explore what I like to imagine as her eternal freedom."His pain is obvious, but sadly, he has no confidence about where she is or what she mi...
2022-08-2311 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersAging: Gracefully and GraciouslyAging comes to everyone great and small, that is, unless their lives end sooner rather than later. Most people probably don't like aging because it usually entails a decline of physical, mental, and other key life attributes. But whatever it entails, casual observation leads to the easy conclusion that some people age better than others, meaning not only that they don't seem to wear out as quickly or as harshly but with ailments or no, some age better because they handle it better. They see the upsides and concentrate on them. They expand their opportunities. They give back or...
2022-08-1511 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersOpioids, Better Living Through ChemistryOpioid addiction, including prescribed medications, is now a national emergency taking more lives than the most threatening diseases. The easily lab-synthesized fentanyl opioid is causing the highest number of overdoses, in part because it can't easily be distinguished from other drugs, and in part because it is generally mixed with other drugs, meaning those who partake may not even know they are putting fentanyl in their bodies. Prescription medications can legitimately treat pain and other health problems, but they can also quickly become an essential go-to to deaden despair, anxiety, stress, sorrow, and loss of hope. In other words...
2022-08-0909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersStanding Firm Amidst the Cancel CultureCancel culture is a direct antithesis of both First Amendment freedom of speech and biblical Christian liberty. This approach to social discourse, or rather the lack thereof, will one day soon falter on the shores of its own premises, for its lack of grace and forgiveness is unworkable in human society. Christian liberty is the biblical doctrine about God's creation of reasoning and choosing human beings, giving them moral absolutes in Scripture in order to preserve and protect their lives, then giving them freedom and responsibility to think and make decisions about non-moral issues in life. It is one o...
2022-08-0109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Immigrant ProblemImmigration is a major issue in the current political landscape. Some want to open US borders for a free flow of immigrants, whoever will may come. Others say there needs to be some kind of organized, vetting process, and that certainly there should be a clear, legal path to citizenship that arriving internationals may elect to pursue. But reaching back at least to the second Bush Administration, immigration law or reform has been a partisan political football with both Democrats and Republicans posturing to gain electoral advantage. Meanwhile, immigrants suffer, the US population suffers, the citizenship process is mired...
2022-07-2609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPublic Education First RespondersPublic education from kindergarten to graduate school is in serious trouble, primarily because it has lost its way, given to political ideology more than the dispensing of knowable truth and no longer knowing how or why to educate. Our educational system is teaching our next generations ambiguity and anxious anger.Some teachers, professors, staff members within public institutions of learning are still standing for truth, First Amendment freedoms, and morality. These are our new First Responders, people courageously standing in the gap on behalf of our children, our youth, and our future. I salute them, for their...
2022-07-2209 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPraise God for AnimalsAnimals are a gift from God. Likely you agree even if you are not a pet person, for animals directly or indirectly contribute to the well-being, health, and flourishing of human life and civilization. When they become pets, our experience with them becomes more personal and enjoyable. In their zeal to protect animals, animal rights activists make the mistake of equating animals and human life, something God did not intend and something we need not do in a Christian worldview of the stewardship of creation. I for one have loved animals in all my memory. For more Christian commentary...
2022-07-1910 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSurging Anti-Christian Feeling Post Dobbs v JacksonIn the wake of Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization, the SCOTUS case reversing Roe v Wade, there has been an uptick in anti-Christian blame. Abortion advocates, chilled to their bone by the decision, are incensed and looking for people and groups to blame, and one of the key culprits has been Christians or even Christianity. The vitriol and vehemence are raging. But there are also a lot of pushback tactics like deception, exaggeration, and cancel culture. Christians need to respond properly, to step up in this difficult moment, and to stand firm. For more Christian commentary, see my...
2022-07-1108 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDisney's Decline and DemoralizationThe Walt Disney Company, known for a century for family entertainment and excellence, has in recent days taken a hard left turn. In its full on embrace of "woke" philosophy and an unfettered sexual revolution, Disney is the latest and perhaps highest profile casualty of the worldview civil war. Once the go-to place for children's imagination, "wishing upon a star," now Disney is an aggressive promoter of LGBTQ+ orthodoxy. And sadly, Disney is no longer a safe place for children. For more Christian commentary on current issues, see rexmrogers.com.
2022-07-0709 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLiving In The Last DaysThe Bible speaks a lot about "the Last Days," the End Times when in the providence of God history comes to a chaotic then ultimately peaceful resolution . Scripture tells us not to try to set dates, but it also gives us many indicators that tell us the Last Days are coming soon. Are we in the Last Days now? Certainly the worsening decline of our culture seems to suggest this. But either way, what is our Christian responsibility and How shall we then live?
2022-07-0507 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersAs Moral Issue, Abortion Knows No PeerAbortion is the profound moral issue of our times. It trumps all others because it involves taking the life of innocent unborn children. The Supreme Court of the United States moments decision Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, June 24, 2022, overruled or reversed Roe v Wade (1973). Reactions since have been intense and will continue to be. Abortion has not gone away.
2022-06-2908 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLiving In A Less Patriotic AgePatriotism is an incredibly powerful emotion common to all people groups throughout time. But it can ebb and flow, including in the United States of America, once considered one of the most patriotic nations on earth. In recent years, it is ebbing. Can we be patriotic? The Greatest Generation thought so, for this is one motive that powered them to victory in WWII, thus preserving freedom for Americans today. But patriotism in recent days is considered passe by some, not worthy of our best thoughts and efforts. This is sad and potentially threatening to the future of our free...
2022-06-2806 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersChristian Colleges and Universities Under PressureGiven a continuing decline in college age students, given a rapidly secularizing culture, or at least one that is marginalizing religion, and given a declining number of Christian families that actually want their children to learn a Christian worldview, Christian colleges and universities are experiencing considerable pressures threatening their survival. In addition, in the past few decades, American culture, especially in education, has embraced moral relativism and more recently, critical race theory and woke philosophies, along with the continuing sexual revolution. None of this bodes well for usually smaller, private avowedly Christian colleges and universities. With LGBTQ+ now...
2022-06-2109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersGuns and Christian LibertyGuns and gun control are a topic each time a misguided soul enters a school, mall, or church and shoots several people, including children. The public understandably wants to do something, anything, to fix the problem, make this nightmare go away, and guns are usually the focus of discussion.The point here is not to argue for or against gun control but to consider how we approach the discussion, discern, and make decisions as Christians. It is also to think again about this wonderful blessing of God called Christian liberty.
2022-06-1408 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat About Pride Month?June is Pride Month, designated by President Clinton in 1999 as a time to celebrate, affirm, and advance the interests of LGBTQ+ individuals. While there is no room or moral justification for any negative action toward other individual citizens, for Christians who question the morality of these behaviors this presents an opportunity to speak the truth in love, sharing our faith and the message of God's reconciliation and hope. For more Christian commentary, see my website at www.rexmrogers.com.
2022-06-0708 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat the Left BelievesThe Left, as opposed to the political Right or Conservative, is often still equated with Liberalism. But the Left, or now Progressives, and Liberals embrace entirely different values. In fact, Liberals were and are closer to Conservatives or the Right than many think. The Left now offers a witches brew of false ideas, anti-American and anti-free society perspectives, biblically immoral views of sexuality, and a long list of other values that stand in direct contradiction to the Judeo-Christian moral consensus that made Western Civilization and America possible as free and flourishing societies.The Left is s...
2022-06-0309 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersUvalde, How Should We Respond?Uvlade, Texas, Robb Elementary School, is the site of another mass school shooting in which 19 children, ages 6-10, and 2 teachers lost their lives, victims of a lone gunman. To say this event is tragic does not come close to the gut-wrenching, senselessness of this attack on innocent children. What does our Christian faith speak to such an event? How should believers respond?
2022-05-3008 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDon't Trust YourselfWe often hear, Just believe in yourself. This is how Western Culture has functioned for some time. The self or self-fulfillment have been the primary focus of most people's lives. We feed the self. Many of us have come to believe that happiness is defined by what we own, how we look, who we impress, and how much entertainment we can enjoy.Perhaps believing in ourselves is not a bad affirmation as far as it goes. But if that is all we do, we're in trouble, because, well, our self is untrustworthy. We each have a sinful...
2022-05-2410 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEvangelism and Social ConcernChristians often seem to set up evangelism and social concern in opposition to one another, or at least to arrange them on separate tracks. Yet the Word of God is holistic. It shares God's moral will for all humanity, and it provides us with a Christian philosophy of life or worldview wherein we are to carry the message of reconciliation and redemption to the world even as we are charged with caring for the world. Jesus said to be not of the world, but in the same chapter he said to go into the world. We don't get raptured...
2022-05-1707 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSocial Justice Is Not What You ThinkPopularly known as "Woke" philosophy, social justice ideology is literally taking American culture at a blitzkrieg pace. Some pushback has occurred and some is occurring now, but so far, social justice ideology advocates have won most battles in the name of "diversity, equity, inclusion." The problem is, social justice is not the same as biblical justice. While American culture, indeed Western culture, was built upon Judeo-Christian values, these are rapidly being jettisoned in favor of a vague agnosticism, one in which everyone does what's right in their own eyes. The points of the spear of this social justice ideology...
2022-05-1008 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersClimate Change--The Sky Is FallingClimate Change is the doomsayer topic du jour. Countless articles have been written, innumerable media people have breathlessly reported, and politicians and environmental activists alike proclaim the end of the world in 12, 10, 6-8 years. Why? Because human beings alone are responsible and the primary culprit is our use of coal, oil, gas. End the use of fossil fuel today and maybe we won't all burn in a fiery inferno tomorrow. Problem with all this is, it does not match evidence, is hyperbolic, is highly politically biased, and is a tool of the Left to gain money and p...
2022-05-0310 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Second American Civil WarIt sounds like hyperbole, but it's really not: America is at war with itself, a kind of second civil war, this one a Cold War involving religious worldview. Our second civil war involves those on the one hand who believe the Bible is the divinely inspired, authoritative and trustworthy Word of God, and those on the other hand who reject the Bible, reject the idea of moral or absolute truth, and seek to live life governed by their preferences and feelings. This civil war is well under way, and it is far more influential and far-reaching in i...
2022-04-2608 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersBombarded By Anxiety--Youth Without HopeAmerican teens and young adults are experiencing a full-on mental health crisis rooted in apocalyptic fears they are mainlining everyday from media and especially social media. Consequently, youth evidence disillusionment, dread, despair, and a nihilistic purposelessness. Youth are not going to church and do not possess a biblically Christian worldview. So. one reason for this catastrophic generational development is that youth have no fall back, nothing solid to believe in, no safety net. Subjective remedies offered by counselors do not help because these basically ask youth to change themselves, something they cannot do. What youth need is faith in...
2022-04-2109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTattoos Perplex MeTattoos, body art, have been around since ancient times, but in the past decade they've gone mainstream in Western culture. While tattoos, in general, were frowned upon when I was kid, no more. Half of millennials report at least one tattoo. Why do people get tattoos? Should they? At least some tattoos I can understand, though most perplex me. Piercings, now that's another matter. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com .
2022-04-1509 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersForgiveness UnlimitedUnforgiveness may be the number one sin in the Christian Church. In any event, it is a deadly cancer to the soul. Forgiveness liberates, blesses, refreshes, enlivens. Jesus told his disciples to forgive seventy times seven, in other words, without limit.Find more Christian commentary see the website rexrogers.com.
2022-04-1308 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersOpening Floodgates of Sports BettingWith the US Supreme Court's Murphy decision in 2018, sports wagering went mainstream. It is now everywhere marketed and available.But gambling, in particular sports gambling, not only threatens the social health of those who participate in it, sports wagering can also be a direct hit on the very idea of competitive athletics and fair play. If athletes, coaches, or referees are influenced by their gambling interests or the pressures of others involved in betting large sums on the outcome of athletic events, they may be induced to throw the game. Point shaving, “taking a fall” in a boxing...
2022-04-0510 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPersecution PrimerMore than 360 million Christians live in places around the world where they experience high levels of persecution. That’s more than the population of the United States.Persecution can be considered in at least two ways: persecution of others, personal persecution, and persecution intersects with freedom of religion and belief.I hear someone claim the American Church or Christians are experiencing “persecution.” But I don’t use “persecution” to refer to incidents in the US. Frankly, while churches in the US have been harassed by government or other entities, and while genuine persecution will likely someday come...
2022-03-2909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersContemporary Culture: Celebrating IrrationalityMuch of what we now say and do in contemporary culture actually makes no sense. It defies reason and rationality, which is to say, it is irrational, and we celebrate this. We want freedom to act with a moral compass of our own devising, freedom to do what’s right in our own eyes, and we’re chasing after this wind with all we’re worth: abortion, gambling, unfettered debt, immoral sexuality, idea of God an unnecessary hypothesis, there is not truth, we could go on. Celebrating irrationality is our mode of existence, but it is unsustainable. For more Christi...
2022-03-2210 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersResponding To BetrayalBetrayal is part of life in a sinful world. It comes to us all. And it hurts. Plus, though hard to admit and consider, we have likely betrayed others. Most of us likely would agree that betrayal on the face of it is not a good thing, so how should we respond to betrayal in a manner that hopefully heals, but above all, honors the Lord? It's not easy, not the natural response, but then again, God wants us to be not natural but spiritual. So he provided us with ways to deal wit...
2022-03-1609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersCostfree Healthcare 2Healthcare is increasingly expensive, particularly when we require professional medical, health, and insurance support. But there are a number of ways we can assume responsibility, taking steps that preserve or improve our health in ways that cost us very little. Better health, and especially the avoidance of self-induced health problems, is just a choice or two away. Deciding to live healthy is a matter of God honoring stewardship. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com.
2022-03-1507 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersCostfree Healthcare 1Healthcare is by any measure an expensive proposition, maybe more so when government gets involved. In any event, free or in our example "costfree" healthcare is available to us all, but these initiatives require our personal responsibility, decisiveness, and commitment. This is the first of two podcasts suggesting a list of behaviors available to all of us anywhere, anytime at little or no financial cost. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com.
2022-03-1108 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDiversity and Inclusiveness in Culture and ChurchDiversity and inclusion, often along with equity, have become tripwires in American culture. But the words mean different things to different groups and much of what activists currently promote is at odds with a biblically Christian worldview. This is even more philosophically and practically threatening to wellbeing when these terms and the associated goals they represent are brought into the Church. The Word of God has not changed and Christians dare not set aside God's definition of morality and, actually, reality. Standing firm for truth, which is to day disagreeing with or rejecting certain non-biblical ideas and values, can...
2022-03-0808 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLittering, Selfishness with No Redeeming Social ValueLittering is one the most common irresponsible acts people commit every day. Cigarette butts are the number one form of litter worldwide. Litter offers no positive side-effects. Littering is damaging, destructive, and dangerous. It violates God's command to human beings made in his image to develop and care for his creation. This command in Gen. 1:26-28 is sometimes called the Cultural Mandate.
2022-03-0106 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEven Methuselah Died—Wills and Trusts Are for EveryoneThe Old Testament patriarch Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, the oldest human being on record. But after that remarkable life, still, Scripture says, "and he died." Everyone, no matter their station in life, eventually dies. Death is indeed a fact of life. For Christians this is not something to fear, for we will join the Lord in heaven, but it is something for which God expects us to prepare: spiritually - have we trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation from sin? and practically - have we taken steps to be good stewards of the assets--time, talent, treasure--with whi...
2022-02-2807 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEverything Is Politics But Politics Is Not EverythingPolitics, government and public policy, partisanship and ideology, now dominate our culture. Everything is reduced to a political calculus. But there is more to life than politics. Indeed the greatest challenges and issues we face are spiritual, not political. And the most important circumstances of life involve family and friends, education and employment or calling, not politics. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com.
2022-02-2306 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersBurial, Cremation, and the AfterlifePrior to 1930, cremation was virtually unheard of in the U.S., and even as late as 1975 cremation was chosen for body disposal in only 6% of deaths in the U.S. Not anymore. Cremation is now available and regularly practiced in every state, such that by year 2025 the Cremation Association projects 57.27% of American deaths will be administered via cremation. Yet Christians have historically opposed cremation, equating it with pagan ritual and superstition and preferring burial's symbolism of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection and the hope of believers' resurrection at the Second Coming. But nowhere in Scripture is cremation c...
2022-02-2207 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Death of DiscussionWith increased politicization of virtually every topic, with growing hyper-partisanship, with now super-sized ideological positions ranging across Left-Liberal-Moderate-Conservative-Right, and the polarization these trends have caused, it seems now almost impossible to hold a discussion, much less a debate, about any social-political issue. People meltdown quickly into opposing camps that look upon the other as not simply different but wrong...and a threat. So now, the answer to differing point of views is not more debate upon the merits of the viewpoints in a free and open setting but silencing. Even the hallowed status of the First Amendment of the...
2022-02-1906 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPresent-Day False Prophets: Celebrities? Influencers?False prophets and teachers in the Scripture seemed to be religious leaders, sort of like preachers today. But while some preachers today might indeed be false prophets, for the most part, American culture no longer listens. Today we watch and listen and follow celebrities, online influencers, ideologues and activists, maybe intellectuals/professors, many of whom come to us "in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." Their message is a moral relativism that undermines believers, the Church, and American culture's ongoing potential to maintain itself as a free society.
2022-02-1807 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLosing a Language of the FaithWith the increasing availability of multiple versions of the Bible, and an explosion of choruses, churchgoers now carry a diverse set of Bibles to church, if they carry any at all, and churchgoers in different churches typically reference or memorize verses from different Bible versions and also usually sing a different set of choruses. The unintended result: the Body of Christ may very well be losing a common language of the faith. If we're learning verses from different versions and singing different choruses, what biblical vocabulary is readily available to us? When this trend is combined with increasing bi...
2022-02-1607 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSex Week and the Degeneration of Higher EducationAmerican universities, the envy of the world, once stood for truth and the pursuit of truth, free inquiry, the best and the betterment of human civilization. Now, many have become woke caricatures of their past, dominated by fear, race and gender consciousness, sexual hedonism, and the latest secular rejection of religious, particularly Christian, morality and ideals. Sex Week, the debasement of Valentines Day, is simply further evidence of a tragic degeneration of the "higher" in higher education. Check rexmrogers.com for more Christian commentary.
2022-02-1607 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersMartin Luther, Plague, PandemicThe great reformer and theologian Martin Luther lived through the Bubonic Plague, Black Death, and later wrote about how Christians should respond to such a challenge. His Christian worldview is instructive, emphasizing faith not fear, learning and reason, then responsible decision making and actions regarding healthcare, and trust in the Sovereign God. Check rexmrogers.com for more Christian commentary.
2022-02-1509 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex RogersEpisode 1 of Discerning What Is Best with Rex Rogers. "Discerning what is best" drawn from Phil. 1:9-11, i.e., spiritual discernment or Christian critical thinking wherein Christians are charged with applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world. Doing this allows Christians to make decisions and live their lives in a manner that honors God, stewards the earth and everything in it, and blesses those who affirm and live out the Creator's defined reality.
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