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A striking feature of our age is the rise of pure self-righteousness the kind seen in a young wife who abandoned her family yet indignantly cried, “How can he do this to me after all I’ve done for him?” or in a pampered son who, despite receiving every advantage from devoted parents, angrily insisted they had “never done anything” for him. In both cases, the moral sickness is the same: the self-ri...

Submission isn’t a call to “sit down and take it”—it’s a call to God-directed action. This message exposes how Christians can confuse biblical submission with medieval-style passivity (think “Patient Griselda”) or—on the other extreme—Jesuit-like, unquestioning loyalty to men and institutions. Instead, Scripture anchors submission first in God’s Word, then shows how real change comes not through r...

Submission isn’t a call to “sit down and take it”—it’s a call to God-directed action. This message exposes how Christians can confuse biblical submission with medieval-style passivity (think “Patient Griselda”) or—on the other extreme—Jesuit-like, unquestioning loyalty to men and institutions. Instead, Scripture anchors submission first in God’s Word, then shows how real change comes not through r...

The ultimate sin, Scripture teaches, is the desire to reform others according to our own ideas a sinful attempt to play god by reshaping people to suit ourselves. Many of the conflicts people face in families, churches, and workplaces come from this very arrogance. God does not call us to change others; only He can do that. He calls us to change ourselves by conforming to His Word, while leaving t...

Pietism rejected doctrine as “dead” and reduced Christianity to emotion and private experience. Being “born again” was emphasized without Biblical definition, while theology, catechism, and the full counsel of God were sidelined. Faith became feeling rather than truth grounded in God’s Word. The result was a weakened church and a strengthened state. As Christianity turned inward and man-centered,...

Spurgeon once said that many church members are like a neighbor’s pigs “all grunt and no bacon” and sadly the description fits far too many: believers whose contribution to Christ’s Kingdom is little more than a sour complaint. One pastor even lamented that a certain member was such a roadblock that if he joined the devil’s church, hell itself would start to crumble. Instead of manifesting the fru...

A recent study has revealed a shameful truth about the American church: the average pastor earns just $10,348 a year well below the federal poverty line with 14% earning under $6,000 and only 5% receiving more than $15,000. Meanwhile, truck drivers, electricians, lawyers, and dentists earn many times more, showing plainly that church members demand much from their pastors while valuing them little...

The Law in Acts and the Epistles (The Law in the New Testament) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/the-law-in-acts-and-the-epistles-the-law-in-the-new-testament This section argues that the New Testament never buries God’s law but repositions it: the Decalogue and moral demands are reaffirmed and intensified (especially inwardly, as Watson notes), while the church rejects only the misuse of law as a m...

Because human beings are constantly changing in tastes, emotions, and even convictions, it might seem that faith itself is insecure and that salvation could be lost as easily as it is gained; but this fear rests on a false assumption that salvation depends on man. Scripture teaches instead that faith is not a human achievement but a gift of God, and therefore cannot be undone by human changeabilit...

In this episode (Feb. 12, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony dismantles the modern “brainwashing” narrative by drawing on suppressed Korean War research: the most resilient POWs were those with **governing convictions**—a living Christian faith and a clear belief in the free market—who were recognized as natural leaders, resisted manipulation, and even attempted escape, while the faithless majority proved trag...

Pietism began as a reaction against cold formalism, but it quickly became a distortion of the Christian faith. By dismissing doctrine, theology, and systematic teaching as “dead knowledge,” Pietism reduced Christianity to emotional experience and private devotion. Being “born again” was emphasized, yet stripped of clear Biblical meaning, while catechism, preaching the whole counsel of God, and int...

At a recent meeting I witnessed something chilling: men who profess Christ calmly violated a verbal contract and effectively stole half a million dollars all while claiming they were seeking “divine guidance.” That phrase itself is often a warning sign, for God’s true guidance is not mystical, private, or conveniently suited to our desires; it is written plainly in His Word. When people bypass Scr...

In “Total Meaning” (Chalcedon Report No. 380), Rushdoony argues that because God created all things, the universe is a realm of total meaning, with no brute or meaningless facts. Meaning does not arise from human interpretation but from God’s sovereign purpose; when man insists on judging meaning autonomously, facts become confused and nihilistic. Original sin is thus epistemological as well as mo...

A familiar complaint insists that spending money on church buildings is wasteful even sinful. But Scripture says the opposite: God rebukes those who live in paneled houses while His house lies in neglect (Hag. 1:2–9). The idea that God deserves less than we give ourselves is not piety it is sin. Yet this argument, born from Enlightenment unbelief and perfected by Marxists, always follows the same...

In Judges 6:25–27, God gives Gideon his first mission, and it is not what anyone expected. Instead of marching against the Midianites, God sends him to tear down the altar of Baal in his own father's house. Nathan unpacks why God always starts reformation at home, dealing with the root before the fruit. He explores the striking parallels between Baal imagery and modern entertainment, the differenc...

Isaiah foretold a child whose birth would rearrange history: the Son given, the King whose government rests on His shoulder and whose peace will never stop increasing. Christmas celebrates that invasion the moment God entered the world in flesh, the moment the rightful Potentate, King of kings and Lord of lords, took the field. The war is not yet finished, but the outcome is certain: Christ will b...

Modern man, this passage argues, is caught in a grim contradiction: he longs for an “end” that would wipe everything clean, yet he fears death, rejects judgment, and even protests capital punishment while fantasizing about a humanistic doomsday. That paradox is traced to humanism—man enthroned as lord, feelings elevated to the standard of right and wrong, and God’s Law dismissed as irrelevant—so t...

Sin is far more than the particular acts we commonly list lying, stealing, murder, or adultery for these are merely the fruits, not the root; sin itself is the deeper condition of man’s nature, the will to be his own god, determining good and evil apart from God. As the Catechism teaches, sin is any lack of conformity to God’s law, and instead of delighting in obedience, fallen man demands that Go...

This passage critiques the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granting the Communist Party special privileges in campaign reporting, exempting it from the disclosure rules required of Republicans and Democrats. The author questions the rationale, arguing that donors to the Communist Party rarely face persecution, while donors to mainstream causes like United Way sometimes do. He frames t...

An old saying tells us that if we talk, people will know we’re fools but if we keep silent, they may mistake us for wise. The truth is, most of us talk far too much, and our words reveal far too much about us: our vanity, our insecurity, our petty complaints, our gossip, our self-importance. Scripture reminds us that words are revelations. Christ Himself is called the Word, and Scripture is God’s...

In “Experience” (Chalcedon Report No. 107), Rushdoony critiques the modern elevation of personal experience and mass appeal over objective, God-ordained truth. He argues that since the late seventeenth century Western culture—and the church with it—has increasingly treated experience as the test of truth, displacing doctrine, law, and God’s purposes with individual feeling and subjective validatio...

Catharism was a medieval revival of Manichaean dualism that masqueraded as true Christianity while denying its foundations. By asserting two ultimate powers a good spiritual god and an evil material god the Cathars rejected creation, the incarnation, the resurrection of the body, and the Trinity. Christ, for them, was only an appearance, not God made flesh. Salvation was escape from matter, not re...

We’ve all learned the hard way that many people who ask for advice don’t actually want counsel they want confirmation. They’ve already chosen their path, and if it succeeds, they take the credit; if it collapses, they blame the “advisers” who never advised them in the first place. Scripture explains why this happens: fools “would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof” (Prov. 1:30). If p...

This teaching confronts one of the most abused phrases in Scripture—“love your neighbor as yourself”—and restores its biblical meaning by grounding love firmly in God’s law, not emotion, socialism, or sentimental tolerance of evil. Drawing from Romans 13, Leviticus 19, the teachings of Christ, and the Good Samaritan, it argues that biblical love is juridical and covenantal: to love one’s neighbor...

Aesop once told of a crow who envied the beauty of a swan and tried to change its habits only to discover that habits cannot change nature. That old fable speaks directly to our age. We spend billions tinkering with externals while ignoring the heart, and no amount of activism, protesting, or moral lecturing can turn a sinner into a saint apart from Jesus Christ. Yet many today inside the church a...