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Many devout Christians faithfully attend church and pray, yet have a selective hearing problem when it comes to God’s Word. Like the boy who “didn’t hear” his mother’s command but heard instantly when invited to lick frosting from a beater, believers often listen eagerly to the comforting parts of Scripture while tuning out the commands that challenge or correct them. But the Psalmist declares, “I...

Rushdoony frames modern culture as a return to pagan totalitarianism, using the prosecution of cryptographer Philip Zimmermann as a symbol of the state’s demand for total surveillance and control. Privacy, property, and due process are eroding, while biblical morality is displaced by licentiousness enforced through law and education. He argues that chastity is now treated as illegal “religion,” wh...

This piece critiques the modern animal rights movement and its push toward vegetarianism as a social imperative. While acknowledging the right of vegetarians and animal rights advocates to promote their beliefs, the author warns against coercive tactics that could impose dietary choices on the broader public. Representative Ronald Mottl’s proposed bill to study animal rights is cited as an example...

Peter writes to believers who had once lived in drunkenness, wastefulness, idolatry, and immorality but whose sudden transformation shocked their neighbors. Instead of rejoicing, the ungodly resented them, “speaking evil” because these new Christians no longer joined in their former sins. Yet the difference was unmistakable. Peter’s point is piercing: true conversion is visible. If Christ is in us...

In Disposable Man, Rushdoony argues that modern humanistic statism, by denying transcendent meaning and moral absolutes, inevitably treats human beings as expendable tools of the state. Drawing on testimonies from the Gulag, he shows how a worldview grounded in pragmatism, utility, and evolutionary meaninglessness produces a society where injustice is never a “mistake” because there is no higher l...

Is war ever justified — or is it, as the famous song declares, "good for nothing"? In this episode of Out of the Question , Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts examine the subject of war through the lens of biblical law, asking the question that too few Christians are willing to ask: by what standard do we evaluate military conflict? Drawing on Genesis 3:15, Deuteronomy 20 and 28, and the w...

Christian Mandate in Parable on God's Judgment (Christianity and Culture) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/christian-mandate-in-parable-on-gods-judgment-christianity-and-culture Philippians 2:9–11 is presented as a trumpet-blast declaration that Jesus Christ is Lord God incarnate, exalted by the Father, and sovereign over heaven, earth, and all powers. That confession meant Caesar was under Christ,...

Monarchianism uses orthodox language while quietly emptying it of Trinitarian meaning. God is spoken of as the Father alone, while the Son and the Spirit are reduced to mere modes or manifestations. Jesus becomes a merely “historical” man ethically united to God, not God incarnate someone to imitate, but not a Savior who redeems. This error drains Christianity of its power. Without the true incarn...

Learning gives a man more material to become either wise or foolish and because foolishness is native to our fallen hearts, it is far easier to be a fool. Proverbs repeatedly describes the fool as a scoffer: cynical toward everything except his own opinions, destructive rather than constructive, quick to undermine others while accomplishing nothing himself. Such scorners love to sit on the sidelin...

In this episode of Christian Reconstruction 101, Reverend Jeremy Walker and Reverend Luke Walker discuss the importance of systematic theology—the belief that the Bible must be understood as one unified and consistent revelation from God rather than through isolated verses or selective interpretation. Together, they examine how doctrinal confusion, denominational division, and theological compromi...

When the angel told Joseph to name Mary’s child Jesus “Savior” he also revealed that this birth fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy of Emmanuel, “God with us.” Scripture’s focus is not merely the virgin birth but the staggering reality of the incarnation: that the eternal Son, very God of very God and very man of very man, entered our world in true humanity. As Creator, He already knew us completely; as i...

Riding with a reckless driver makes us tense, nervous, and desperate to seize the wheel but many of us treat God the same way. Though Scripture makes clear that He is in the driver’s seat of the universe, perfectly governing all things, we behave like panicked passengers: second-guessing Him, slamming imaginary brakes, and praying as though He needs our corrections. Such anxious “prayers” are real...

The Transfiguration reveals the unbreakable unity of Christ with the law and the prophets, identifying Jesus unmistakably as the Greater Moses and the incarnate Lawgiver. On the mountain echoing Sinai Jesus is transfigured in glory alongside Moses and Elijah, showing that the law and the prophets do not stand apart from Him but bear witness to Him in perfect harmony. Their conversation about His c...

Man was created for a purpose: to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. When we live for anything else, life becomes frustrating and empty, like misusing a tool for the wrong task. True fulfillment is found only when we live for God’s glory losing our lives in Him in order to truly find them and discovering lasting joy, peace, and meaning in Christ.

Why is your generation struggling in ways your parents never did — crushed by taxation, priced out of housing, watching your nation's agriculture and infrastructure being dismantled? In Judges 6, the children of Israel faced the same thing: enemies swarming their land, devouring their produce, driving them into caves. But the Bible is clear that Midian wasn't the ultimate cause — God was. He deliv...

R.J. Rushdoony examines fame and its cultural impact, drawing on Leo Braudy’s The Frenzy of Renown. He contrasts the Christian era, where men lived accountable to God, with the Renaissance and modern times, where public image dominates. From Alexander the Great to modern actors and politicians, people perform for attention, often sacrificing substance, morality, and reality. This obsession with im...

Manichaeanism replaces the Bible’s moral conflict (sin vs. obedience) with a false conflict of being spirit vs. matter, light vs. darkness. When evil is treated as something inherent in people, classes, races, or institutions, the solution is no longer repentance and conversion, but suppression, exclusion, or death. This logic has fueled revolution, Marxism, racism, and modern statism. Christianit...

Scripture flatly forbids worry, calling it both foolish and sinful. Jesus warns against it, and Peter commands us to cast all our cares on the Lord, because worry and faith cannot coexist. God never worries He governs all things, knows the end from the beginning, and upholds every atom by His power. If He is truly our Lord, then Romans 8:28 is our confidence: all things work together for good to t...

Doctors increasingly report patients with no physical illness only a crushing sense that they have “nothing to live for.” Wealth, travel, and social status offer them no meaning because, as Scripture says, they are “without God” and therefore “having no hope.” Their despair echoes the cynicism of Lord Keynes, who famously shrugged, “In the long run, we are all dead.” But the apostle Paul speaks fr...

In Post-Christian Era, Rushdoony rejects the claim that the modern world has moved beyond Christianity, arguing instead that it is humanism not Christianity that is collapsing under its own contradictions. Tracing the Enlightenment’s militant rejection of biblical faith and its eventual descent through Darwin, Freud, and existential despair, he shows how humanism has stripped life of meaning, dign...

Man was created in the image of God not in form, but in knowledge, righteousness, holiness, and dominion. Sin shattered that image, turning us inward and stripping us of true understanding, righteousness, and self-rule. In Christ, God restores what was broken: a new humanity renewed in His image. By regeneration, we are recreated to know God, live in holiness, and share in His dominion, now in par...

Scripture teaches that true wisdom is not merely learning but seeing seeing connections, consequences, timing, and judgment. A wise person looks ahead, discerning the shape of things to come, while the fool may possess mountains of information yet lack a shred of foresight. Our age is full of data and degrees but empty of wisdom: endless reports, expert studies, and policy papers have produced lit...

Rushdoony argues that state licensure of churches or Christian schools is a denial of Christ’s lordship, because licensure makes the state the final authority. Drawing on decades of legal battles, he explains that licensure always implies control: once the state funds, licenses, or regulates, it claims the right to shut institutions down. While Christians largely won early fights over Christian sc...

This piece highlights the harsh realities widows face under federal and state property and tax laws. A Missouri widow, unable to operate her late husband’s farm machinery during harvest because it was tied up in his estate, was forced to hire help at additional expense. Laws and regulations, including estate and inheritance taxes, often treat widows as secondary to bureaucratic process, ignoring t...

In Titus 3, Paul offers what he calls a “faithful saying” a core statement of the Christian faith and it is strikingly practical. Believers are to obey lawful authorities, because the Christian way is regeneration, not revolution. They must be ready for every good work, speaking evil of no one, avoiding quarrels, and showing gentleness and meekness to all. Once enslaved to lusts, malice, and envy,...