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Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

In “Jesus and the Tax Revolt,” Rushdoony argues that Christ’s command to “render unto Caesar” rejects tax revolt as a Biblical strategy, not because Caesar was righteous, but because he was the de facto ruler whose authority could not be denied without collapsing all order. Jesus refused the Pharisees’ trap by grounding obedience in present reality rather than idealized de jure claims, showing tha...

The federal bureaucracy is increasingly out of control, creating inefficiency, corruption, and overregulation while citizens bear the burden; lost records, incomprehensible forms, endless paperwork, and useless projects exemplify a system growing unchecked, transforming governance from a representative republic into a bureaucratic oligarchy where freedom diminishes as the bureaucracy expands. #Fed...

Modern politics, the author argues, is no longer constitutional but evolutionary. According to contemporary evolutionary thinking, man has moved from being shaped by blind natural processes to actively directing evolution itself through science and the state. Politics thus becomes the management of human development population control, eugenics, genetic planning, and biological regulation all just...

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

Rushdoony opens by honoring the association and economist Fred Nymeyer, then frames “the moral foundations of money” with a simple warning: there’s no such thing as a free lunch someone always pays. He illustrates how even well-taught Christians can live immorally through debt and appetite that expands with income, then connects that private irresponsibility to a national monetary crisis fueled by...

When a convicted murderer survives a botched execution and is nursed back to health at public expense, something has gone profoundly wrong with our understanding of justice. In this episode, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts examine two high-profile death penalty cases—a woman convicted of a brutal torture-murder in 1995 who survived lethal injection three decades later, and the long-dela...

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

True peace whether of mind, soul, or society is not gained by wishing for it, purchasing it in books, or affirming its value, but only through struggle, discipline, and overcoming; it is a hard-earned paycheck, not a free indulgence. Our age longs deeply for peace because it is restless and inwardly fractured, yet it resents the suggestion that peace requires sacrifice, self-denial, and obedience....

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

Deny capital punishment and you deny the Cross. The Altar was not decoration. It declared that every violation of God's law demands death and Christ Himself paid that price for His elect. If God could not set the death penalty aside for us, no man can set it aside for the murderer, the kidnapper, the rapist. "Unconditional love" for the evildoer is merciless cruelty to his victims. The land is def...

Clients who pay late, pay short, or never turn up are not just bad luck. Proverbs 22:29 promises that the man skilled and diligent in his own business will stand before kings, not before mean men, and the first word of the verse tells you that you can see it happen. This is not an American work ethic or a Protestant one; it is God's covenant promise, and the path from the dark corner to the spotli...

Rushdoony and Scott discuss the biblical balance of work, play, worship, and rest, emphasizing that work for a Christian is dominion-oriented and purposeful, while modern leisure often replaces work with self-indulgence. They criticize society’s obsession with trivial pastimes, overregulation, and centralization, which stifle creativity and initiative. Play and sports have been corrupted by rules...

The modern state is increasingly expected to save society from moral evils such as addiction, crime, and social decay, yet these problems are spiritual, not political or medical. Laws, science, and bureaucracy cannot supply character or regenerate man, but they are repeatedly treated as substitutes for God. As morality is replaced by medical and social explanations, responsibility shifts from indi...

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

In “What Is Law?” Rushdoony argues that modern legal theory has deliberately severed law from God, redefining it as the will of the state or the product of social experience rather than an expression of divine justice. Tracing this shift through figures like Burgess and Holmes, he shows how law became an exercise of sovereignty divorced from morality, while justice was reduced to “social justice,”...

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

We often imagine that life would be richer and happier if God simply removed our problems, yet Scripture teaches that peace and victory are not found by the elimination of trouble but by overcoming it in Christ. God uses difficulties as necessary instruments to discipline us, break our self-reliance, and drive us out of ourselves and into His strength, just as a grain of wheat must fall into the g...

God declares, “I am the LORD… My glory will I not give to another,” and Rushdoony argues that infallibility is inescapable: if men deny it to Scripture, they simply transfer it to something else democracy, the state, reason, history, science, or revolutionary power. From Rome to Marx, from papal authority to the “general will,” every worldview claims an ultimate authority that must be obeyed witho...

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

Universities receiving Pentagon research funds can divert focus from their core mission of education, as such grants though tiny compared to industry contracts ($852 million to universities vs. $116.7 billion to industry in 1982) often prioritize research over teaching, benefit professors financially, and may reward politically connected alumni rather than serve practical scientific advancement; w...

In “Social Unrest,” Rushdoony argues that rising crime and disorder are not primarily the result of increased evil, but of the collapse of godly restraint, discipline, and justice, as sentimental religion substitutes prayer-talk and misplaced “love” for responsibility and lawful control. He insists that prayer without obedience and action is blasphemous, because while God alone converts hearts, me...

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows. Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right prioriti...

Europe before Luther appeared prosperous and peaceful, yet lived in a “dread of universal dissolution” because its faith had collapsed, leaving institutions hollow; Rushdoony parallels this with late Rome, where welfare statism, moral decay, and endless law without enforcement produced a people unwilling to defend themselves “Rome is dying but continues to laugh.” He argues our age mirrors this pa...

Modern politics is built on the false belief that the state can save man. As A. J. P. Taylor noted, socialism assumes human perfectibility, an idea that collapses once sin and human limitation are acknowledged. From a biblical perspective, man cannot remake man; only God’s regenerating grace can bring true change. This political faith is a modern form of Gnosticism, claiming that salvation comes t...