$1.8 Trillion in Debt. Is a College Degree Even Worth It Anymore? Ep 191

Is AI actually making us smarter, or is it quietly making us dumber? That's the question I couldn't shake this week. We've handed our kids machines that answer every question instantly, and we call them smart for knowing how to use them. But if a computer remembers, calculates, writes, and thinks for you, what happens to your own mind? Are we outsourcing the very struggle God designed to grow wisdom in us? Here's the danger: AI doesn't just get things wrong. It gets them spectacularly wrong while sounding absolutely certain. And if you don't know the truth for yourself, you'll never catch it. In this episode I make the case that critical thinking just became a survival skill, then James joins me to react to some clips you won't want to miss, ending with one of the most powerful testimonies of a changed life I've ever heard. Test everything. Hold fast to what is good. And don't rely on a machine to do your thinking for you. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalThinking #FaithAndCulture #ChristianPodcast #Wisdom #Discernment #Parenting #Homeschool #Christianity #Testimony #Truth #TechAndFaith

Is Kathryn Krick a real apostle of God, or is she deceiving millions? That's the question my son James dropped in my lap, and I could not look away. He pulled together her whole story, from chasing an acting career in Hollywood to the viral "deliverance" videos casting out demons in front of hundreds of millions of views, and we sat down to work through all of it together. Here's what I keep coming back to. The hurting people in those videos are not the enemy. They're broken, they're searching, and someone is handing them a false hope wrapped up in the name of Jesus. That's the part that breaks my heart. So in this episode I walk you through the five-point discernment test I use to tell the real thing from a counterfeit, straight out of Scripture. Because false prophets are everywhere, and Jesus told us plainly that we would know them by their fruit. Ark Encounter: https://arkencounter.com Red Truck Men: https://redtruckmen.org Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #KathrynKrick #5FChurch #FalseProphets #Discernment #Apostle #Deliverance #ChristianTikTok #FaithOverFear #BibleTruth #Charismatic #TestEverything

If Jesus already did everything necessary to save you, why bother trying to be good anymore? Why fight sin so hard? Why forgive the person who hurt you? Why do the right thing when nobody's watching? Here's the beautiful answer. We don't obey God so that he will save us. We obey him because he already has. In this devotional I open up Romans 6, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the difference between Jesus dying for us and Jesus living for us, the perfect life you and I never could. Grace comes first, gratitude follows, and our good works are simply that gratitude made visible. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Alliance Defending Freedom: https://JoinADF.com/Kirk Check Your Registration - https://tools.vote.online/embeds/chec... Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #Grace #Romans6 #Gospel #ChristianLiving #Devotional #Faith #Salvation #GoodWorks #Gratitude #BibleStudy #Christianity #Jesus

The Queen of country music is gone. Dolly Parton passed away at 80, and I couldn't let the week end without honoring her, because her life holds a lesson every artist and dreamer needs to hear. Most people know "I Will Always Love You" as a love song, but Dolly wrote it as a goodbye to the man who gave her one of her biggest breaks. When Elvis later came calling and his manager demanded half the publishing rights, she said no. It broke her heart, but she wouldn't surrender what God had given her, and years later Whitney Houston turned that same song into one of the greatest vocal performances in history. Dirt poor in the Smoky Mountains, nearly 60 years married to one man, faithful to the end. Her story is a powerful reminder to steward the gift He's placed in your hands. Rest in peace, Dolly. We will always love you. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Alliance Defending Freedom: https://JoinADF.com/Kirk America's Christian Credit Union: https://americaschristiancu.com/kirk Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #DollyParton #IWillAlwaysLoveYou #WhitneyHouston #CountryMusic #Faith #Christian #Testimony #GodGivenGifts #Stewardship #RonaldReagan #JamesCameron #Tribute #RestInPeace

Something strange is happening in America. I'm actually starting to agree with Bill Maher. Communism gave the world bread lines, gulags, and the deaths of millions, and yet it's becoming attractive to young people all over again. Before we roll our eyes and say these kids just don't know history, I want to ask a better question: why are they still reaching for it? In this episode I dig into what young people are really longing for, why the promises of socialism sound so compassionate, and why Christianity offers something far better than either greedy capitalism or government confiscation. Here's the heart of it: communism tries to build a better society by redistributing possessions, but God builds a better people by transforming hearts. Nobody has to seize a Christian's property to make him generous. I'll leave you with one action step to try with a young person in your life this week. Give it a listen, and God bless you. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #Communism #Socialism #Christianity #Faith #BiblicalWorldview #Freedom #Liberty #Generosity #YoungPeople #BillMaher #Capitalism #Culture #Gospel

If I'm honest with you, I don't want to die. I love this life. My wife, my kids, my work, that first cup of coffee and the sound of my rooster in the backyard. And yet I know there's a day on God's calendar with my name on it. Death has been on my heart lately. Losing people close to me has a way of bringing it into focus, and it drove me back to my Bible with a hard question: how should a Christian actually think about death? What I found may have been the thing I had wrong my whole life. Thanks for letting me share this one. Subscribe, and drop your question in the comments for a future show. God bless you. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Interested in sponsoring The Kirk Cameron Show? Click here: https://www.kirkcameron.com/advertise #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #Devotional #Christian #Faith #Death #EternalLife #Jesus #Bible #Grief #Hope #Resurrection #ChristianLiving #FaithOverFear #Gospel

When I heard that Hayden Panettiere died at just 36, it stopped me in my tracks. I grew up in that same world, and I watched too many of my own friends get crushed by it. Corey Haim. River Phoenix. Andrew Koenig, who played my best friend Boner on Growing Pains. Different people, different families, but the same devastating pattern. In this episode I want to talk about what I believe is really behind so many of these tragedies: the loss of childhood, and why protecting it may matter more than almost anything else. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Alliance Defending Freedom: https://JoinADF.com/Kirk America's Christian Credit Union: https://americaschristiancu.com/kirk Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Interested in sponsoring The Kirk Cameron Show? Click here: https://www.kirkcameron.com/advertise #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #HaydenPanettiere #ChildStars #Hollywood #GrowingPains #ChildhoodFame #CoreyHaim #RiverPhoenix #ProtectChildhood #FaithOverFame #ChristianPodcast #Parenting #HollywoodTruth

Is college still worth it? That question would've sounded crazy to my parents and grandparents, who were all educators. And back in 1970, a degree really was the golden ticket. But the world has changed. This week James and I sit down for another dangerous conversation about the numbers that stopped us both cold, the lie young people are being sold, and why so many of the most successful folks never finished college. Grab a seat and drop your take in the comments. Red Truck Men: https://redtruckmen.org Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Interested in sponsoring The Kirk Cameron Show? Click here: https://www.kirkcameron.com/advertise #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #IsCollegeWorthIt #CollegeDebt #StudentLoanDebt #HigherEducation #CollegeVsCareer #DangerousConversations #FaithAndCulture #Christianity #HardWork #SkipCollege #CareerAdvice #Apprenticeship #ChristianPodcast

What kind of body will you have in heaven? Will you eat, feel gravity, break a bone, or just float around like Casper the Friendly Ghost? In this devotional I turn to 1 Corinthians 15, where Paul answers with an acorn. You bury a little seed and up comes an oak tree, and that's you and the body God has waiting for you. This one belongs to the dust, but what's coming is an upgrade you can never lose. So don't cling to what God never meant to last forever. Take care of the body you've got, then get to work. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Interested in sponsoring The Kirk Cameron Show? Click here: https://www.kirkcameron.com/advertise #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #1Corinthians15 #ResurrectionBody #Heaven #LifeAfterDeath #ChristianDevotional #BibleTeaching #Faith #Eternity #Christianity #Gospel #FaithOverFear #ChristianPodcast #WhatHappensWhenWeDie

The WNBA may have just walked into one of the most spectacular ideological traps I have ever seen. Caitlin Clark brings unprecedented attention to women's basketball, and somehow she becomes the center of a culture war over race, privilege, and identity. Then her teammate Sophie Cunningham says the obvious thing out loud, and two former male NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, announce they're entering the 2027 draft as transgender women, so the league has to answer the question everybody's been dancing around. Here's my take: sometimes the most merciful thing you can do with a false idea is let it play itself out to its logical conclusion. You can rename reality and rewrite the rulebook, but when the whistle blows, reality gets the final possession, because truth belongs to God. So pull up a chair, grab your popcorn, and let's watch what happens next. To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0  Alliance Defending Freedom: https://JoinADF.com/Kirk Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Interested in sponsoring The Kirk Cameron Show? Click here: https://www.kirkcameron.com/advertise #KirkCameron #TheKirkCameronShow #WNBA #CaitlinClark #WomensSports #TransgenderAthletes #SophieCunningham #EnesKanterFreedom #RoyceWhite #BiologyMatters #CultureWar #Christianity #Faith #BiblicalWorldview #TeamJesus