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Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows.

Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right priorities set by God’s Word are the foundation of a healthy, just society.

The federal bureaucracy is increasingly out of control, creating inefficiency, corruption, and overregulation while citizens bear the burden; lost records, incomprehensible forms, endless paperwork, and useless projects exemplify a system growing unchecked, transforming governance from a representative republic into a bureaucratic oligarchy where freedom diminishes as the bureaucracy expands. #FederalBureaucracy #RedTape #Overregulation #GovernmentInefficiency #FreedomAtRisk #BureaucraticOligarchy

In “Jesus and the Tax Revolt,” Rushdoony argues that Christ’s command to “render unto Caesar” rejects tax revolt as a Biblical strategy, not because Caesar was righteous, but because he was the de facto ruler whose authority could not be denied without collapsing all order. Jesus refused the Pharisees’ trap by grounding obedience in present reality rather than idealized de jure claims, showing that appeals to illegitimacy can be used to nullify virtually every authority in a fallen world. Christ did not endorse injustice, but He rejected revolution as the path to righteousness, insisting instead that true legitimacy (de jure order) can only arise through regeneration and obedience to God’s law. Tax revolt, Rushdoony warns, is historically a shortcut to chaos and revolution precisely the path Marx celebrated whereas Biblical reconstruction begins with rendering all of life to God, not with anarchic resistance. The way forward is not revolt, but regeneration; not refusing Caesar to gain freedom, but submitting all things to Christ to establish lawful order over time.

#JesusAndCaesar #TaxRevolt #RenderUntoGod #BiblicalAuthority #AgainstRevolution #ChristianReconstruction #GodsLaw #DeFactoVsDeJure #ChristIsKing

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows.

Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right priorities set by God’s Word are the foundation of a healthy, just society.

Modern politics, the author argues, is no longer constitutional but evolutionary. According to contemporary evolutionary thinking, man has moved from being shaped by blind natural processes to actively directing evolution itself through science and the state. Politics thus becomes the management of human development population control, eugenics, genetic planning, and biological regulation all justified as progress.

This worldview ignores decisive factors such as faith, family, and moral character, reducing humanity to material data and statistics. Social problems are explained biologically or environmentally, while the stabilizing power of religion and community is dismissed. As a result, policies such as abortion, population limits, and directed breeding are defended as evolutionary “goods.”

The essay concludes that evolutionary politics leads inevitably to total control of man by man through the state. Creationism, by contrast, affirms man as created in God’s image and accountable to Him, grounding freedom in divine authority rather than human planning. Unless churches defend creation and redemption in Christ, political evolutionism will steadily erode both faith and liberty.

Rushdoony opens by honoring the association and economist Fred Nymeyer, then frames “the moral foundations of money” with a simple warning: there’s no such thing as a free lunch someone always pays. He illustrates how even well-taught Christians can live immorally through debt and appetite that expands with income, then connects that private irresponsibility to a national monetary crisis fueled by the same illusion. He argues that real money must be wealth (historically hard money gold and silver), while paper becomes “bad checks” when governments spend beyond reserves, then patch the problem with gimmicks like “paper gold.” The deeper issue, he says, is moral: governments try to dodge the real price mechanism (materials, labor, capital/management, and taxes) by inflation, which is not caused by wages or business but by state tampering with money cheapening it, robbing savers, rewarding debtors, and steadily increasing state power as “official counterfeiter.” Scripture condemns this (“thy silver is become dross”) and demands honest weights and measures (Lev. 19:35–36); America’s original coinage followed that principle by weight, but now uses a “rubber measure” that stretches yearly. The end result of monetary debauchery, he warns, is social debauchery, dependence, and collapse like Rome’s bread-and-circuses spiral until money fails and disorder follows; and he closes with Babson’s chilling reminder: if you ignore inflation, inflation won’t ignore you.

#MoralFoundations #Money #Inflation #SoundMoney #HonestWeights #Leviticus19 #NoFreeLunch #Debt #Stewardship #Economics #HardMoney #BiblicalWorldview

When a convicted murderer survives a botched execution and is nursed back to health at public expense, something has gone profoundly wrong with our understanding of justice. In this episode, Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts examine two high-profile death penalty cases—a woman convicted of a brutal torture-murder in 1995 who survived lethal injection three decades later, and the long-delayed execution of the Fort Hood shooter—to expose how far modern judicial practice has drifted from the biblical standard of swift, impartial justice. Drawing on Genesis 9:6, Numbers 35:31, and Ecclesiastes 8:11, they argue that God's law prescribes capital punishment for murder without ransom and without unnecessary delay, and that prolonged postponement breeds public sympathy for the guilty while emboldening further evil. They also confront the uncomfortable ways these cases are exploited as political spectacle rather than pursued as righteous obligation, and challenge Christians to recover a robust theology of salvation and godly rule that applies God's law to civil government rather than retreating into passive resignation. Listen at cr101radio.com/ootq and subscribe to Out of the Question.

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows.

Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right priorities set by God’s Word are the foundation of a healthy, just society.

True peace whether of mind, soul, or society is not gained by wishing for it, purchasing it in books, or affirming its value, but only through struggle, discipline, and overcoming; it is a hard-earned paycheck, not a free indulgence. Our age longs deeply for peace because it is restless and inwardly fractured, yet it resents the suggestion that peace requires sacrifice, self-denial, and obedience. Scripture insists on this paradox: peace comes only after battle, never before it. To seek peace without facing the struggle especially the struggle against ourselves is to inherit only frustration. Christ teaches that life, fruitfulness, and peace come only through dying to self, as the grain of wheat must fall into the ground and die. This is not the lifeless peace of a graveyard, but the living peace of Christ ruling the heart, producing love, joy, and faithfulness. Jesus Christ Himself is our peace, and only as He prevails in our lives tearing out the nettles of self-will and self-protection do we experience the peace that passes understanding. Peace, then, is the fruit of surrender, the reward of obedience, and the settled confidence of a life no longer centered on itself but on the Lord of peace Himself.

Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline and productivity are neglected, society decays, and lawlessness follows.

Jesus is clear: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matt. 6:33). When people put comfort and recreation first, both God’s work and their neighbors suffer. Right priorities set by God’s Word are the foundation of a healthy, just society.