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The Roman satirist Juvenal mocked religion as naïve “guff,” yet he spent his career lamenting Rome’s moral collapse never realizing that the decay he despised came from the very unbelief he celebrated. St. Paul saw the same rot even within the early church: people who still wore the appearance of godliness while denying its power. When Christian faith stops governing a person’s life, he effectivel...

Written amid war, upheaval, and natural disaster, Psalm 46 proclaims the unshakable hope of God’s people: “The Lord of hosts is with us.” Though nations rage and the earth itself seems unstable, God remains our refuge and strength. This psalm declares the heart of Christmas Immanuel, God with us the living God who governs history, sustains His church, and calls us to be still and trust His soverei...

Sometimes it seems Washington’s planners compete to find the most absurd ways to spend our money. Take Baltimore’s “Block” of strip joints and adult shops: $338,000 is being spent to make the area more accessible with tree plantings and wheelchair cuts apparently ensuring the physically disabled can comfortably visit porno shops! While satire aside, one wonders if resources couldn’t go toward more...

When Black Panthers marched into the California assembly in 1967, the spectacle accomplished little for them but it handed legislators the excuse they needed to pass the Mulford Act, a gun-control law supposedly aimed only at preventing such incidents. Yet the first man arrested under it was no radical but a decent citizen, a former legislative candidate who carried an unloaded gun for protection...

Gnosticism teaches that evil lies in the material world and that salvation comes through secret knowledge, not through Christ’s finished work. It rejects the Old Testament, God’s law, and moral responsibility, replacing grace with human insight and autonomy. Though ancient, Gnosticism lives on today in modern art, philosophy, theology, and ethics where immediacy replaces mediation, feelings replac...

Modern society talks endlessly about “law and order,” yet we increasingly separate the two and the result is tyranny. Order without true, God-given law is the order of the graveyard or the gangster: silent streets, rigid control, and no justice. From communist dictatorships to local governments empowering criminals to “keep peace,” we see examples of lawless order everywhere order that suppresses...

Rushdoony argues that hospitality and charity are moral institutions, commanded by God and central to biblical faith not optional niceties. From Israel to the early church, caring for strangers and fellow believers was essential to covenant life and survival, especially under persecution. Scripture commands hospitality, but also sets clear boundaries: charity is not unconditional and must honor di...

The Puritans accomplished astonishing things not because of numbers, but because of conviction men like Richard Rogers, who when accused of being “too precise,” simply answered, “I serve a precise God.” They believed every word God spoke demanded obedience, and as Christopher Love warned, “If you break God’s law, God will break your peace.” Today millions fill churches, yet the old power is gone;...

God’s decrees declare that nothing in this world is ruled by chance. From eternity, God has foreordained all things according to the counsel of His will. While we plan imperfectly and are often overturned by events beyond our control, God’s purposes never fail. This truth gives meaning to every moment of life: no trial is wasted, no suffering is senseless, and all things serve His glory and the go...

According to Scripture, the result isn’t neutrality it’s chaos. When man’s reason, experience, or majority opinion becomes the source of law, God is quietly dethroned, the state takes His place, and truth is reduced to compromise and expediency. This episode exposes how even well-meaning theologians traded Moses for Plato, revelation for rationalism, and ended up empowering statism, relativism, an...

Psalm 33:12 declares that the nation whose God is the Lord is blessed but the implication is equally clear: the nation that rejects Him is disinherited, judged, and left to be trampled underfoot. Our modern world, having severed itself from God, now walks squarely in that judgment, and nothing will change until men return to Him in obedience. Scripture teaches that the meek those tamed and yoked t...

Is it sinful for a Christian man to desire greatness? Is ambition always pride? In this episode of God’s World, God’s Way, Nathan F. Conkey explores Jesus’ surprising answer in Mark 10, where James and John openly desire preeminence in the Kingdom. Christ does not rebuke their longing to be great — instead, He redirects it. The world’s path to greatness is domination, self-exaltation, and control....

Rushdoony highlights books connecting history, faith, and society. Ussher’s Annals of the World ties God’s blessings and judgments to Israel’s obedience. Early Christians, per Davies, practiced charity seriously, contrasting Pharisaic legalism. Verzone and Ferrar show the church’s spiritual and cultural significance. Modern works reveal God’s design in the immune system (In Self-Defence), social i...

Heresy today thrives under the banner of “personal choice.” In the name of peace, churches often silence defenders of orthodoxy while tolerating false teaching. Truth is sacrificed to harmony, and those who insist on Scripture are labeled divisive. Modern culture denies objective truth altogether, treating belief as personal preference rather than submission to God’s revealed Word. This spirit mak...

An old fable tells of a poor, frozen peddler in Warsaw whom the angels begged God to bless so God brought the man to Heaven and offered him anything. But the peddler, small in heart and vision, could imagine nothing greater than a hot coffee and a doughnut. His request embarrassed the angels because it revealed the deeper problem: he trivialized God because he himself thought trivially. We often f...

Today, in the name of “Christian charity,” we’re increasingly asked to subsidize evil penalizing the righteous to reward the lazy, the lawless, and the destructive. True charity supports those who are genuinely in need and deserving, but when we fund wickedness whether through welfare, foreign aid, or silent complicity we become accessories to the very sins God condemns. In this episode, we expose...

A shocking courtroom scene reveals the lengths to which godless authorities will go to control Christian institutions even to the point of spying on church prayer meetings and documenting who sang and who used the restroom. Despite laws forbidding such interference, the state pressed on, proving the truth of Scripture: without the fear of God, men are no more trustworthy than rattlesnakes, their w...

On this episode, Rev. Luke Walker joins us as we discuss the Moral Standard that Christians are to found their faith and family on, how Christians are to view taxes, the Grey Areas of life that are not clear-cut in scripture, and how and when we are to form or separate ourselves from others.

Rushdoony argues that the future of society rises or falls with the family. Scripture places the family not the church or the state at the center of social power, entrusting it with education, charity, inheritance, property, and the training of children. When these responsibilities shift to the state, freedom declines and statism grows. By contrast, when families reclaim these callings through Chr...

Human words are always tainted by sin and self-justification, but God’s Word is pure, authoritative, and creative. Scripture is not merely a record of revelation it is God’s revelation, judging us rather than being judged by us. True faith rests not in our speech or reasoning, but in the living Word of God, which alone teaches us what to believe and how to live.

When a Miami judge sentenced a woman who slit her husband’s throat not to prison but to five years of teaching Sunday school, it revealed just how deeply our culture has learned to make sin respectable. With thieves in office and unbelievers in pulpits, why not a murderess in the classroom? In this episode, we examine the growing trend of legalizing and excusing sin in the name of “rehabilitation,...

In Critical Analysis, Rushdoony argues that modern education and theology are rooted in Satan’s original temptation to subject God’s Word to human judgment, replacing obedient faith with autonomous “critical analysis.” By making man the judge of Scripture and reality, this mindset produces intellectuals skilled at dissection but incapable of faithful action, relevance, or dominion. Rushdoony contr...

Imagine designing a society tailor-made for thieves a world where stealing is respectable, legal, and even blessed by economists, educators, and clergymen. That’s exactly what happens when inflation, taxation, and state power become tools of institutionalized plunder. In this episode, we explore the satirical yet painfully accurate picture of a “thieves’ paradise,” where citizens are taught that b...

Taxation touches every aspect of our lives, from income and property to gasoline, entertainment, and even our estates, and yet the burden often feels arbitrary and excessive. While some taxes may be necessary, the scope of modern levies from birth to death reveals a system where the citizen is constantly treated as a revenue source rather than a free individual. The Sixteenth Amendment grants the...

Biblical law places the family at the center of society because God entrusts it with decisive powers: children (the future), property, inheritance, education, and welfare. When these are taken over by the state, society weakens. True renewal comes as families reclaim these responsibilities through Christian education, care for their own, and faithful stewardship. Rushdoony argues that this reclama...