In this episode, we reflect on Herbert Hoover’s warning that civilization advances on kept promises and falters on broken ones, then turn to Scripture to show how only God’s unchanging Word can truly anchor trust. We’ll explore how relying on human promises leads to social decay, and why a foundation built by the Lord is the only path to lasting progress.

Montanism began with a desire for spiritual purity and urgency but drifted into error by exalting personal revelation, instant holiness, and end-times obsession over Scripture, discipline, and growth. By dividing believers into “spiritual” and “carnal,” it undermined authority, fostered legalism, and replaced patient sanctification with demands for perfection now.

True Christianity calls for tested faith, humility, and long obedience in history. When zeal outruns wisdom, the result is not renewal but irrelevance to Christ’s kingdom work in the world."

Rushdoony, Blumenfeld, Scott, and Mose examine the influence of belief systems on education. They argue that public schools, rooted in evolution, promote moral relativism, situational ethics, and a “downward integration into the void,” leading children away from God. This extends to death education, behavioral psychology, and values clarification, contributing to moral decay, teenage suicide, and social passivity.

The discussion emphasizes homeschooling and Christian schools as a countermeasure, preserving faith, moral formation, and literacy. Blumenfeld highlights grassroots movements, such as PURE, defending parental rights, and critiques the public school system’s reliance on unproven methods like the look-say reading system, which has caused widespread functional illiteracy. The speakers advocate proactive parental involvement and community support to safeguard children from secular humanist indoctrination.

In this episode, we explore how the San Joaquin Valley’s transformation from wild oak forests and seasonal floods to a global breadbasket illustrates true, godly stewardship versus reactionary preservation. We’ll argue that real conservation balances wise development with care for creation, fulfilling humanity’s biblical mandate to subdue and responsibly manage the earth.

In From Ape Man to Christian Man, Rushdoony traces modern culture’s descent from Rousseau’s myth of the “noble savage” to a death-affirming celebration of barbarity, alienation, and rebellion against God. Using the popularity of Tarzan as a symbol, he shows how the idealization of the “natural man” gradually devolved into the glorification of depravity, nihilism, and self-destruction, culminating in a culture that rejects both God and moral limits. Yet amid this collapse, Rushdoony sees hope: the rise of Christian schools, homeschooling, and a renewed biblical culture signals a turning from the ape-man myth to the new man in Christ. As the old humanistic order decays, he calls believers to rejoice and build, confident that true life and civilization flow only from faith in the living God. #FromApeManToChristianMan #Rushdoony #ChristianWorldview #FaithAndCulture #Humanism #NewManInChrist #BiblicalHope

In this powerful episode of Preschool Pioneers, Jeremy Walker explores the true meaning of education by asking one critical question: Where is it all leading? “D is for Destination” challenges parents and teachers to recognize that education is not merely about academics, but about shaping the character, faith, and eternal direction of a child’s life. Through biblical insight and real-world examples, Jeremy contrasts two educational paths—one leading to godly character, purpose, and blessing, and the other to chaos and destruction—revealing why Christian parents and educators play one of the most important and rewarding roles in the world. This episode will inspire you to think differently about your influence, your responsibility, and the lasting impact you have on the next generation.

The cross, once an instrument of shame and death, is the Christian’s glory because it proclaims Christ’s victory over sin and death. In His obedience, sacrifice, and resurrection, Jesus creates a new humanity and gives us new life. For believers, the cross also shapes daily living dying to the old self and rising to life in Christ. Every person bears a cross: either the crushing burden of self, or the life-giving cross of Christ that leads to victory and hope."

Genesis 4:26 tells us that after Seth named his son Enos meaning “mortal” “then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.” As scholar Cassuto noted, the verse pairs two names: man named truthfully as frail and dying, and God named truthfully as YHWH, the self-existent and eternal One. By naming his son Enos, Seth confessed that humanity offers no ultimate hope; only God does. And to “call upon the name of the LORD” is far more than praying it is approaching God as He has revealed Himself, not as we imagine Him to be. Just as Seth refused to soften the truth about man, we must refuse to invent soft fantasies about God. Many today address God according to their wishes, not His Word, proving they do not truly call upon His name. The living God has named Himself in Scripture and in His Son; the question is whether we approach Him on His terms or whether Isaiah’s lament applies to us: “There is none that calleth upon thy name.”

Rushdoony argues that the modern world’s inversion of justice celebrating crime while erasing responsibility flows from the legacy of Marx, Darwin, and Freud, who completed the Enlightenment’s turn from God to man and ultimately against man himself. Focusing on Freud, he warns that redefining guilt as a scientific problem rather than a moral one severs guilt from sin, abolishes true accountability, and makes salvation impossible. In its place arises the mental-health state, offering therapy, drugs, and control rather than repentance and redemption, and paving the way for rule by a scientific elite. The real issue is theological: either God governs man through His law, or men will play God over humanity.

#ChristianWorldview #BiblicalTheology #Rushdoony #FaithAndCulture #MentalHealthState #GuiltAndGrace #LawAndGospel #ChristianThought #WorldviewMatters #GodsLaw

In the early church, baptism was understood not merely as cleansing but as coronation. Borrowing imagery from the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles where crowns and olive branches symbolized joy and dominion the church placed a crown on the newly baptized to remind them that redemption restores mankind to his original calling: to rule under God and to bring all of life into obedience to Christ. Believers saw themselves as God’s under-lords, tasked with exercising dominion in every sphere education, politics, economics, science, and the whole of culture because “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.” But such rule begins at home: we cannot govern the world if we do not first govern ourselves and our families. Baptism, then, announces a royal calling the commissioning of redeemed men and women to take up the crown of service, authority, and responsibility under the King of kings.