Americans are deeper in debt than ever before, both public and private. Each American family now owes $130,000 it will have to pay over the course of the members’ lifetimes. We’ll take a look at what this means and where everything will end up. Addison Wiggin from the Daily Reckoning (www.dailyreckoning.com) joins us.

Can a rapidly-growing church be the sign of a sick church? Quite often yes because post-moderns see the world differently from the church growth models of today. Dave Fitch guests.

John’s boralogue examines the connection between this week’s UAE port management uproar and how this connects to the Iranian oil bourse and the three underlying causes of the war on terror: ideology, oil and the collapsing U.S. dollar.

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Busy show today.

John’s boralogue details Kyoto’s last hurrah as peak oil comes over the horizon. Then we segue into eminent domain, with details of the rapid pace post-Kelo seizure of property has assumed and how — as predicted — it affects churches. Charles Haynes from the First Amendment Center (www.firstamendmentcenter.org) is guest.

We’ll do a post-debate examination of some claims made by guest Stephen Sizer last week, also comparing the Oslo Peace process to an argument in a classic comedy.

Finally, South Africa is slipping in the direction of Zimbabwe, and removing guns from its citizens is part of the agenda. Larry Pratt from Gun Owners of America (www.goa.org) is just back from South Africa.

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It’s debate time today. The normal program is pushed aside for a debate on the issue of Christian Zionism — is evangelical Christian support of Israel causing instability and injustice in the Middle East?

Supporting the "affirmative" position is Stephen Sizer, author of "Christian Zionism, Road Map to Armageddon?" (www.siszers.org) In the "negative" position is Dexter van Zile of the David Project (www.davidproject.org).

As always, it’s a spirited program and there is no boralogue.
(You can all breathe a sigh of relief.)

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Quite a number of the world’s geopolitical trends are beginning to interact in both predictable and unpredictable ways. An essential skill will be learning to thrive in chaos.

Peak Oil poked its nose over the horizon during President Bush’s State of the Union message, with the President’s indication that America is addicted to oil. Somewhere in the next 12-24 months, peak oil will become public discussion on the mainline talkies and once the implications become obvious, there will be followed a market panic.

For a short time we’ll see a marriage between peak oil and global warming, followed by a horrible divorce. John devotes two segments of his boralogue to this relationship, running clips from various news sources.

Then we turn attention to the Middle East and the Hamas elections.
Dr. Steve Carol, Ph.D., (www.middleeastradioforum.org) professor of Middle East history joins us. And, has the Hamas leopard dropped his spots so far? Jihad website monitor, Dr. Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D., (www.joyjunction.org) says, "No!" Hamas is still behaving online the way it always has.

Next week a debate is scheduled about the emerging attack inside evangelical churches against Christian Zionism and support for Israel. Opponents maintain that support of Israel makes life difficult for Christians in the Islamic world and fails to show love for the Arabs.

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