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The Eldership (Remastered) (The Church)
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This section argues that eldership is an older, covenantal office that the church inherits rather than invents rooted in Israel’s family-and-tribal ...
Adoption
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Adoption is one of the most glorious doctrines of Scripture, defining the believer’s relationship to God not merely as forgiven sinner or renewed cr...
Easy Chair, No. 140, February the 13th, 1987 — What Is Going to Happen to Us?
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this 1987 Easy Chair discussion, R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott argue that the “future” isn’t an unreadable mystery so much as the present wor...
Vision
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A modern young woman, caught in bed with her lover, became furious when her husband discovered the affair, beat the adulterer, and threw him out; she ...
The Cartesian Heresy
18 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cartesianism makes the human mind the source of truth and reality (“I think, therefore I am”), replacing God’s revealed world with subjective id...
Innocent III
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Innocent III” (Chalcedon Report No. 151), Rushdoony examines how well-intentioned but misdirected efforts at moral renewal can deepen rather t...
True Blindness
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Truly blind men are those who trust only what they see and therefore see nothing. They look at the world’s overwhelming order and design yet insist ...
The Crisis of Accountability : What Can Be Done? - Crime and Crisis in Our Legal System (Remastered)
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 lawlessnes...
Sanctification
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sanctification is not the product of human willpower or self-imposed suffering, as illustrated by the frustrated efforts of monks and hermits who trie...
Proud Sins
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the evidences of our fallen nature is how deeply pride infects our sins: women may deny snoring, parishioners deny stinginess, and even crimina...
Science and Magic
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Science and Magic” (Chalcedon Report No. 370), Rushdoony argues that both science and magic, despite appearing opposed, share a common foundat...
Is Federal Aid Destroying America?
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This passage describes a common problem with federally funded local projects: well-meaning federal grants can incentivize unnecessary construction, of...
Self-Righteousness
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, “...
Pietism Revisitied
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pietism rejected doctrine as “dead” and reduced Christianity to emotion and private experience. Being “born again” was emphasized without Bibl...
The Ultimate Sin
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 sui...
Submission to Civil Government (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 biblic...
Submission to Civil Government (Remastered)
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 biblic...
Grunters in the Pew
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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: bel...
Pastors
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 li...
Effectual Calling
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Because human beings are constantly changing in tastes, emotions, and even convictions, it might seem that faith itself is insecure and that salvation...
Law in Acts and Epistles (Remastered)
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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-te...
Easy Chair No. 139, February the 12th, 1987 — Faith, Suggestibility, and the Myth of “Brainwashing”
11 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode (Feb. 12, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony dismantles the modern “brainwashing” narrative by drawing on suppressed Korean War research: the m...
Biblical Guidance
11 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At a recent meeting I witnessed something chilling: men who profess Christ calmly violated a verbal contract and effectively stole half a million doll...
Pietism
11 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pietism began as a reaction against cold formalism, but it quickly became a distortion of the Christian faith. By dismissing doctrine, theology, and s...
Religious Buildings
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A familiar complaint insists that spending money on church buildings is wasteful even sinful. But Scripture says the opposite: God rebukes those who l...
Total Meaning
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Total Meaning” (Chalcedon Report No. 380), Rushdoony argues that because God created all things, the universe is a realm of total meaning, wit...
The Generation with Nothing Left to Lose
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Christmas
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Meaning of Life & Death: Captial Punishment and Human Life - Part 1 (Remastered)
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, re...
Sin
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 itse...
Do We Have a New Kind of Prejudice?
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This passage critiques the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granting the Communist Party special privileges in campaign reporting, exempti...
Words
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Experience
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Experience” (Chalcedon Report No. 107), Rushdoony critiques the modern elevation of personal experience and mass appeal over objective, God-or...
Advice
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
The Cathars
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Catharism was a medieval revival of Manichaean dualism that masqueraded as true Christianity while denying its foundations. By asserting two ultimate ...
Love of Neighbor (Crime and Punishment) Q&A (Remastered)
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This teaching confronts one of the most abused phrases in Scripture—“love your neighbor as yourself”—and restores its biblical meaning by grou...
Nagging
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
The Promise of Life
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A 1966 scandal in England revealed how far a society can fall when authority forgets its purpose: a ten-year-old girl was seized from her mother and p...
The Cultural Mandate (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The cultural mandate isn’t a distraction from the gospel it’s the outworking of Christ’s victory in the world. From Genesis to the Great Commiss...
Shortcuts
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Man’s constant search for shortcuts to God, to happiness, and to fulfillment only leads him further from his goal, because every supposed shortcut s...
Pelagianism
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pelagianism places man at the center of salvation, treating God’s grace as an aid rather than the decisive cause. By denying original sin and affirm...
The Fear of Death
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Gide once wrote of a man who fell into deep despair at the thought of buying new shoes not because of the cost, but because their wear reminded ...
Easy Chair No. 138, January the 3rd, 1987
04 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott examine the cultural and philosophical climate of the 20th century, focusing on existentialism and its pervasive influen...
When God Waits: Patience, Preparation, and the Price of a Commission
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon asks for a sign — and unlike the Pharisees, he is right to do so. In this episode, we examine Judges 6:17–24 and explore the difference bet...
White Hairs
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While traveling recently, I met a man in his fifties who looked barely thirty-five pleasant, sincere, but strikingly immature. A lifetime without work...
The Myth of Neutrality
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “The Myth of Neutrality” (Chalcedon Report No. 224), Rushdoony argues that neutrality is a fundamentally false and destructive concept rooted i...
Godly and Ungodly Mercy (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation frames God’s absolute sovereignty as the ground of Christian confidence: though the nations rage and conspire, His throne stands fas...
Gratitude
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Scripture commands gratitude, not as a polite gesture but as a defining mark of the redeemed. Psalm 100 tells us to “be thankful unto him,” while ...
Wishful Thinking: James 1:14
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Wishful thinking is man’s attempt to escape reality by enthroning desire over truth, replacing logic with impulse and turning life from the service ...
Learning Patience
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
James 1:2–4 is no one’s favorite memory verse, yet it tells us exactly how God grows us: by testing our faith. If we bristle at hardship, God send...
The New Idolatry
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “The New Idolatry” (Chalcedon Report No. 222), Rushdoony argues that modern theology has reproduced idolatry in subtler forms by relocating sov...
Are We Regulating Ourselves into Tyranny?
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This passage warns that excessive regulation even over seemingly minor matters like lawn maintenance can erode personal freedom and lead society towar...
Dynamite, Not Feelings: What God's Presence Actually Means
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gideon has just received a direct commission from God — "Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel" — and his immediate response is an excu...
The Restless Heart
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We all know what it’s like to do something intuitively like finding the right key in the dark until we think about it and suddenly can’t. Scriptur...
Pelagianism
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Pelagianism teaches that man is not fallen in his whole being and can choose God by the power of his own will. Sin is minimized, original guilt denied...
The Meaning of a Sacrilege (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sacrilege, biblically defined as “robbing God,” is not a forgotten superstition but a central Scriptural reality with enduring consequences. From ...
What Draws People to a Particular Church?
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why are so many young conservatives flocking to Rome? Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts dig into the trend of political conservatives convert...
Sleep
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us breathe and sleep without effort unless something deeper is wrong. Scripture tells us that chronic sleeplessness is often not a medical iss...
All Men Have Not Faith
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Paul asked the Thessalonian believers to pray for him, his request was strikingly unlike the typical prayer lists we hear today. He urged them to...
The Will to Die
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Modern psychology confirms what Scripture has long declared: fallen man often carries within himself a will to self-destruction. Addictions, reckless ...
The Tribute Money (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
They thought they had Jesus trapped with a political “gotcha”: Is it lawful to pay Caesar’s tax or not? Say no, and Rome arrests Him. Say yes, a...
On Being a Sourpuss
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Asaph confesses in Psalm 73 that when he brooded over the prosperity of the wicked and the injustices around him, his heart “became sour,” and in ...
The Implications of Arianism
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Arianism denied that Jesus Christ is very God of very God, reducing Him to a created being and turning God into an unknowable force. What looked “re...
Easy Chair No. 137, January 2, 1987
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony critiques the lionization of Thoreau, highlighting that his retreat to Walden Pond was less a philosophical act than a gesture of perso...
The Shortest Verse
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us remember the Sunday school boys who tried to meet the Scripture-memory requirement by quoting the shortest verse in the Bible “Jesus wept...
Wolves
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This Chalcedon Report exposes how modern revisionism rewrites reality by denying the biblical doctrine of man, recasting predators as harmless, crimin...
The Covenant
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Scripture, a covenant is a bond of life established by God’s mercy. Though unequal parties, God graciously binds Himself to man through a covenan...
Death and Restitution (Crime and Punishment) (Remastered)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony argues the church’s crisis is moral blindness: Christians often treat the unbelieving neighbor as basically good and needing only “Chris...
Yea, Hath God Said?
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the church’s most troubling people are not the openly rebellious but the selectively devout those who attend faithfully and read Scripture r...
Problems
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most of what consumes our political and personal energy today isn’t real problems at all but non-problems impossibilities created by human imaginati...
Locale of Meaning
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Locale of Meaning” (Chalcedon Report No. 172), Rushdoony argues that the decisive shift of the modern age was the relocation of meaning from G...
Are We Using Language to Confuse Ourselves?
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Are We Using Language to Confuse Ourselves?” Rushdoony warns that statist categories—especially the IRS distinction between “profit” and...
Deliverance from Egypt
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When God sent Moses to demand Israel’s release, He already knew Pharaoh would refuse yet He ordained the confrontation to accomplish two crucial pur...
Donatism
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Donatism arose from a sincere desire for a pure church, but it turned holiness into a test of legitimacy rather than a fruit of grace. By insisting th...
The Basis for Covenant Community (Church and Community in History) (Remastered)
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony says “community” originally meant communion a shared life grounded in Christ, not merely people living near each other. In Christendom, ...
What Happens When We Ignore God’s Law?
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every relationship you have — with your employer, your spouse, your children, your nation — is either governed by God's law or governed by you pla...
Contentment
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Insatiability never being satisfied with income, possessions, relationships, or circumstances is one of the most pervasive but least acknowledged sins...
The Appeal
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Isaiah 55 is God’s gracious invitation to weary and dissatisfied men to leave empty pursuits and find true life in Him. God offers free and abundant...
The Kingdom of God (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Kingdom of God teaches that Christ’s proclamation of the Kingdom does not abolish the law but confirms it in its fullest authority, revealing th...
Contrition
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Contrition true, painful sorrow for sin is rarely spoken of today, yet Scripture places immense weight on it. The word comes from a root meaning “to...
The Ancient Idols Have New Names
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Israel cried out to God in their misery, He didn't send a deliverer — He sent a prophet. Before the solution came the diagnosis: His Word. In t...
Easy Chair No. 136, December the 12th, 1986
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott discuss revolution, linking it to Romanticism and the Enlightenment. They argue that the Enlightenment’s exaltation of...
Growth
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Psalmist compares the godly to “a tree planted by rivers of water,” and the image is deliberate: living trees never stop growing. The moment t...
The Heresy of Modalism
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Modalism denies the Trinity by reducing Father, Son, and Spirit to temporary “modes” of a single, unknowable force. It presents God as evolving, c...
Blindness vs. Growth
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Some people repeat the same sins and blunders endlessly, even after receiving clear counsel, because as Solomon says “the way of the wicked is as da...
Providence
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In “Providence” (Chalcedon Report No. 131), Rushdoony argues that Christianity is founded on God-ordained distinctions between good and evil, righ...
Hearing God
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Maintaining the Surface
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Much of life is lived behind masks carefully managed appearances that hide a self-centered inner reality. But God is not fooled by surfaces. He strips...
The Disappearing Cornerstone (Church and Community in History) (Remastered)
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rushdoony frames modern culture as a return to pagan totalitarianism, using the prosecution of cryptographer Philip Zimmermann as a symbol of the stat...
Do You Want a Vegetarian World?
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This piece critiques the modern animal rights movement and its push toward vegetarianism as a social imperative. While acknowledging the right of vege...
Who's There?
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Peter writes to believers who had once lived in drunkenness, wastefulness, idolatry, and immorality but whose sudden transformation shocked their neig...
Disposable Man
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Disposable Man, Rushdoony argues that modern humanistic statism, by denying transcendent meaning and moral absolutes, inevitably treats human being...
Are All Wars Created Equal?
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pasto...
Christian Mandate in Parable on God's Judgment (Remastered)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Mandate in Parable on God's Judgment (Christianity and Culture) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/christian-mandate-in-parable-on-gods-judgmen...
Be Yourself
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Monarchianism
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Monarchianism uses orthodox language while quietly emptying it of Trinitarian meaning. God is spoken of as the Father alone, while the Son and the Spi...
Systematic Theology and the Whole Counsel of God (Luke Walker)
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Christian Reconstruction 101, Reverend Jeremy Walker and Reverend Luke Walker discuss the importance of systematic theology—the...
God with Us
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When the angel told Joseph to name Mary’s child Jesus “Savior” he also revealed that this birth fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy of Emmanuel, “Go...
The Driver's Seat
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Chief End of Man
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 misus...