Rushdoony Radio

Jude, brother of Jesus and James, sounds a powerful alarm in his short but explosive epistle: Ungodly infiltrators have crept into the church unnoticed twisting God's grace into license for sin and denying Christ's absolute Lordship. These false teachers claim ""higher"" spirituality, but Jude exposes them: They pervert the gospel, turning freedom into lawlessness (antinomianism) while posing as e...

This talk argues that the Christian is not an anarchist but a believer in God’s government, and that modern speech about “the government” wrongly treats the state as ultimate, when Scripture places the real “seats of government” first in self-government under God’s Word, then the family, then church, school, vocation, and community, with the state only as civil government—limited and subordinate t...

This address defends Christian education as obedience to Christ’s total lordship, rejecting the charge that it “deflects from the gospel” by insisting that no area of life or knowledge is neutral and that Christ, not the state, is Lord. Because all creation belongs to God, every subject—science, mathematics, medicine, language, and the arts—must be taught in submission to His Word, not treated as...

This lecture presents economics as inherently religious, showing that humanism begins in Genesis 3:5 with man’s desire to be his own god and expresses itself today through fiat law, fiat money, and fiat economics, all of which create inflation, disorder, and false wealth. In contrast, biblical economics flows from the dominion mandate of Genesis 1:26–28 and rests on four foundations: faithful obed...

This session argues that faith reshapes every area of life, so education cannot be neutral: Christianity produces “history” (meaningful, ordered, God-governed events), while humanism produces “social science” (man’s attempt to control and predestine society without God). True history assumes God’s sovereign acts—Creation, Incarnation, and the Second Coming—as the frame and direction of all events,...

This session argues that mathematics is inherently religious, not neutral, because every fact, number, and law of logic exists within a God-created order and bears witness to its Creator. Rejecting the Enlightenment myth of autonomous reason, it shows that mathematics depends on the biblical solution to the problem of the one and the many, resolved only in the doctrine of the Trinity, without whic...

This session contends that economics rises or falls with the strength of the trustee family, not with state policy or abstract theory, exposing the Enlightenment myth that “reason” and social order exist only apart from God as ideological nonsense designed to justify hostility toward any institution not created by human fiat. Drawing on Zimmerman and Unwin, the argument shows that civilizations fl...

This session exposes inflation as a moral disease before it is an economic one, rooted in fiat money, statist power, and a humanistic belief that value can be created by decree rather than by work, thrift, and godly character. When money is severed from real wealth, it becomes a tool of theft, rewarding debtors, punishing the faithful, and financing cultural decay—from foreign Marxist regimes to d...

This opening session argues that economic collapse is not accidental but moral, the predictable fruit of a statist, fiat-driven world that has abandoned God’s created order. Using Christ’s parable of the steward, the teaching confronts Christian other-worldliness and insists that faithful stewardship of money is a spiritual requirement, not a worldly distraction. Humanistic economics treats realit...

This session presents Abraham and Sarah as Scripture’s model—or “normative”—marriage, not because it was easy or sentimental, but because it was forged through responsibility, obedience, and costly decision-making under God. Sarah, whose very name signifies authority, was no passive figure; she commanded decisively when right and submitted faithfully when obedience to God required it, even in terr...

This session delivers a forgotten truth with explosive relevance: in Scripture, marriage and property are inseparable, because God owns the earth and entrusts stewardship not to the state or the individual, but to the family. Biblical property is future-oriented, covenantal, and stabilizing—designed to capitalize God’s Kingdom through responsible households and godly heirs. The dowry system forced...

Marriage, this lesson insists, is not a “natural arrangement” built on biology or romance, but a vocation rooted in the image of God—a covenant designed to reveal God’s order, authority, and love in the world. Reading Genesis 2 and Ephesians 5 together, it pushes back against “Old Testament is primitive” thinking and says Scripture is one unified Word: Adam is left alone long enough to discover hi...

This session argues that the family is the real power center of civilization, which is why every revolutionary system—from Plato’s philosopher-kings to modern statism—must first dismantle it. When the family governs children, property, inheritance, education, welfare, and faith, it generates responsibility, continuity, and disciplined freedom; when it is replaced by the state or by permissive sexu...

Modern “juvenile justice” can’t be understood until you see the sleight-of-hand behind it: the state keeps redefining what counts as “public” and “private” so it can seize what God assigned to the family while excusing what God calls public evil. Historically, Christian law carved life into distinct spheres under God—family, church, commerce, civil government—each with real jurisdiction; but moder...

This message traces the modern war on the family to humanism’s twin goals: erasing God and dismantling the family as a governing institution. Drawing on history—from the French and Russian Revolutions to failed collectivist experiments in Soviet nurseries and Israeli kibbutzim—it shows that societies seeking rootlessness, anonymity, and radical equality consistently produce damaged children, socia...

This session confronts the social power of the biblical family and explains why it is relentlessly targeted by the modern state: under God, the family governs the future (children), property, inheritance, education, and welfare—the very foundations of society. From Theodora’s transformation of Roman law to Marx, Engels, Dewey, and modern democrats, the pattern is clear: destroy the family and Chri...

This session frames the family as a fundamentally religious institution—not merely sociological or economic—and uses Psalm 127 to argue that true “security” (personal and national) is futile unless the Lord is the builder; the psalm’s startling point is that children, raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, are God’s appointed “weaponry” for cultural and spiritual conflict, “arrows” by w...

This session argues that the family is God’s central institution, deliberately placed at the heart of human life so that every person—husband, wife, child—participates in the most important sphere of God’s order. Because the family forms character, transmits faith, and teaches responsibility, it is both the place of greatest blessing and the deepest vulnerability, capable of profound joy or devast...

This opening to a study on the biblical doctrine of the family argues that modern society is fundamentally at war with the family because it has replaced God’s order with statist and naturalistic thinking. Scripture presents the family—not the state, church, or school—as God’s primary institution, with marriage as the first and basic religious vocation, governed by God’s Law rather than personal d...

This passage argues that modern Christianity has drifted into practical polytheism, affirming Christ with words while denying His Lordship in politics, education, economics, science, and daily life by surrendering those realms to humanism. When God’s Law-Word no longer governs every sphere, man enthrones himself, the state, or institutions as rival gods, reducing salvation to mere “fire insurance”...

Public education is suffering from intellectual schizophrenia—torn between despair over humanity’s survival and blind confidence that centralized systems can remake man—because humanism treats man as both helpless and godlike. Even left-wing critics admit the system is failing: millions graduate functionally illiterate, Darwinian “survival of the fittest” has turned schools into bureaucratic weedi...

This message argues that socialism in education can’t be defeated by chasing subversives—it must be confronted at its root. The real engine, it claims, is the doctrine of evolution, which teaches conflict as the basic law of life: class against class, race against race, sex against sex, generation against generation. Once that worldview is accepted, socialism becomes inevitable, because a world of...

This talk pulls no punches: what’s increasingly on trial in America isn’t just Christians, schools, or families—it’s the Bible itself, especially wherever God’s Law confronts modern ideas of authority, discipline, and lordship. It exposes a softer but deadlier compromise inside the church: wanting Jesus as Savior from hell, but rejecting Him as Lord over life, law, and culture. Against the myth of...

This message sounds the alarm: the fight isn’t just “religious freedom” cases—it’s a war on the Bible itself, especially wherever Scripture’s commands on discipline, authority, and judgment are treated as “dangerous.” It then exposes a softer crisis inside the church: a Christianity that wants Jesus as a fire-escape, not as Lord—saved from hell, but not from sin, and certainly not under His Law-Wo...

Crime can’t be fixed by tougher policing alone when a culture is rotting at the roots. This talk traces how law enforcement retreats once lawlessness becomes normal—because the deeper crisis isn’t just criminals, it’s the public’s softened conscience and the collapse of self-government. The solution isn’t bigger prisons (a modern experiment that often protects offenders and ignores victims), but b...