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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 “The Economics of Death,” Rushdoony argues that modern economics is driven by a present-oriented, debt-based, and fundamentally death-loving worldview that rejects Biblical morality, future responsibility, and covenantal faith. Scripture teaches that true economic life requires sacrifice now for fruit later sowing seed with faith in God’s promises yet humanistic systems reward consumption, infl...

This essay argues that while many observers speak of a “return to religion,” such claims must be tested by substance rather than appearances, because past religious revivals often amounted to little more than temporary sentiment or social conformity. True renewal, it contends, cannot be measured by church attendance or religious consumption alone, since social stress and crisis can provoke superfi...

The world hands you one economic goal: stop working and retire. Proverbs 12:24 hands you a different choice altogether: the hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be under tribute. The contrast in Scripture is not freedom versus slavery but rule or be ruled, and what separates the two is diligent work. We look at what tribute really costs, what ruling demands of a man, and wh...

When a sensational case like the Cornell University scandal dominates the news cycle, audiences are pressured to pick sides — but what if the real problem started long before the headline-grabbing events? In this episode, Andrea Schwartz and Charles Roberts argue that the modern university culture, the myth of adolescence, and the systematic removal of young people from family authority and biblic...

Modern society has increasingly replaced law with the doctrine of “rights,” shifting life from duty under God to demands asserted by man. Biblical law restrains us for the sake of justice, requiring obedience, responsibility, and regard for others. God’s commandments impose duties to protect life, family, and property and train people to think God’s thoughts after Him. When the church abandons thi...

Rushdoony warns that subordinationism ranking persons or attributes within the Trinity is the root of nearly every major Christian heresy and carries devastating consequences for theology, church life, and politics. When God the Father is treated as more “God” than the Son or Spirit, or when one attribute (love, grace, sovereignty, law) is elevated above others, God is reduced to a contradiction-r...

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...

Many people find it hard to live with themselves because they are haunted by the fear that they are not getting the most out of life, whether they are young or old, married or single, parents or childless, moral or rebellious; each imagines that something essential is slipping past them, leaving their existence thin, frustrated, and unreal. This restless dissatisfaction, however, is not a sign tha...

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 God's sight, the sin of one pastor equals the sin of an entire nation. Leviticus 4 grades sin by responsibility. Priest and nation require the same offering a bullock. The higher the office, the heavier the guilt. And "I didn't know" is no defense. Sin through ignorance is still sin. Conscience doesn't define transgression God's law does. The pulpit shapes the politics. When the clergy go waywa...

The crisis in modern law and politics cannot be solved by elections or new personnel, because it is rooted in false premises. Contemporary legislation is largely ad hoc designed to address immediate problems in convenient and popular ways, without reference to enduring moral truth. Such laws accumulate, create new problems, and remain in force long after their failures are evident. Law, however, i...

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 and Scott reflect on the Great Depression, sharing firsthand memories and observations often missing from conventional histories. They note that Roosevelt’s New Deal and relief programs expanded government power, often creating non-essential work and benefiting big business, while failing to end the Depression war ultimately did. They contrast personal stories of hardship, resilience, an...

In “Reacting Instead of Acting,” Rushdoony warns that emotional outrage and vigilante responses, however understandable, are no substitute for Biblical obedience and lawful action. The tragic killing of a convicted child molester by a grieving mother exposed not only the failure of courts and judges but also the danger of Christians abandoning God’s ordained means for justice. Sympathy for the mot...

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...

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 argues that any serious study of theology must begin with the doctrine of the triune God, not as an abstract idea but as the foundation of all life and thought. Unlike pagan and modern philosophies that invent a “god” to solve intellectual problems and then discard him, the biblical God is the Creator, not created by man’s need. Scripture teaches the inescapable knowledge of God (Rom. 1)...

Many people find it harder to live with themselves than with anyone else, because their own hearts constantly rehearse failures, embarrassments, and sins, condemning them more harshly than any external critic ever could; whether over social blunders, unmet expectations, or real moral guilt, men and women torment themselves with self-judgment and remorse. This inward condemnation is universal, even...

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...