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
254 episodes
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"...
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Season 4
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Episode 253
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9:35
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 252
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9:53
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...
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9:45
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 ...
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8:50
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 249
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9:45
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 248
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9:35
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 247
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9:51
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 246
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9:57
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 245
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9:47
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 244
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9:54
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 243
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9:47
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 242
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10:00
Be One of God's Unlikely Leaders
Be One of God's Unlikely Leaders: Live With Focus, Get Things Done is my book, just released Nov 2025. It's the product of years in various leadership positions, a book I wanted to write for a long time, began writing 15 years ago...
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Season 4
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Episode 241
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8:07
Two-State Solution: Solving the Unsolvable
The Israel - Palestinian conflict has been a perennial one for almost the last one hundred years. Of course the roots of the conflict reach back many centuries earlier. Since Israel became a recognized nation state in 1948 and the people called...
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Season 4
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Episode 240
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9:48
Antisemitism Is Evil
Antisemitism is surging the world over, including in the United States. The result is harassment, threats, and violence toward Jews, by far most of them with no known contact with the perpetrator. It's just a person who hates Jews and acts on i...
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Season 4
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Episode 239
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9:57
Considering Christian Zionism
Christian Zionism is a theological and political movement that supports the return of Jewish people to the land of Israel and the modern state of Israel, based upon interpretation of biblical passages. The term is complicated in use, some emplo...
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Season 4
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Episode 238
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10:00
Restoring American Culture
"Making America Great Again" is all well and good, but based upon what? Economic, politics, law and order? Perhaps all these things but more than this, to restore American culture to its former strengthen and enable it to flourish, we need to r...
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Season 4
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Episode 237
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9:57
Coming to America: Socialism in a Government Near You
Socialism, under the guise of "Democratic Socialism," is once again making an an appearance in the USA, and it's more prevalent than perhaps you might think. It's perplexing, really, why this ideology and political governance model, which has f...
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9:20
AI in Culture and Church
AI, artificial intelligence, is "taking over the world." While it's not quite like that, it seems like it for AI is now part of virtually every endeavor that uses any form of online support. What does this mean? Is AI threatening, dangerous, an...
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Season 4
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Episode 235
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9:41
Os Guinness and Colson Center Film "Truth Rising"
Dr. Os Guinness, Christian apologist and social commentator now in his 80s, is the narrator and featured presence in Focus on the Family produced film, "Truth Rising," in partnership with the Colson Center. Guinness believes Western culture and...
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Season 4
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Episode 234
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9:51
Will Positive American Social Change Continue?
The past few months have given us a ringside seat to considerable shifts in social and political direction in the USA, and many of us believe most of these changes are positive and long overdue. Woke policies are being jettisoned, climate chang...
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Season 4
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Episode 233
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9:57
What Do We Know About Mass Shooters?
Mass shootings are statistically rare but then again all too common. What causes mostly men to plan to kill as many people, even children, as they can, then usually die themselves in the process? Is it humanity's evil nature or the availability...
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Season 4
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Episode 232
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9:36
The Ark Encounter, Williamstown, Ky
The Ark Encounter, located in Williamstown, KY, is a wonder to behold, a life-size ark built to the dimensions described in the book of Genesis when Noah built the ark in preparation for the Great Flood. Opened in 2016, it is amazing to see, th...
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Season 4
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Episode 231
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9:50
Review of America Agonistes: America's 250th by Os Guinness
Dr. Os Guinness is a highly regarded Christian philosopher and cultural commentator. In this second of four planned volumes, he delves into America's "agonistes" or struggle with itself and its heritage, a self-destructive conflict that could l...
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Season 4
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Episode 230
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9:55
King Nebuchadnezzar's Lessons for America
Nebuchadnezzar the Great, second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigned for 43 years. He was the most powerful man in the world, yet through the prophet Daniel God warned the king about his arrogance, pride, and the trust he placed in his e...
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Season 4
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Episode 229
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9:55