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FAQs about Rushdoony Radio:How many episodes does Rushdoony Radio have?The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.
April 30, 2026Intellectual Schizophrenia - Q&A (Remastered)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 weeding machines, and universities have become “multiversities” with no commitment to truth, excluding Christianity while embracing anything else. Massive studies show money doesn’t fix education and that the family is decisive, yet the statist response is more centralization, earlier intervention, and deeper assaults on the family—repeating the Soviet error with equally destructive results. In contrast, Christian schools, by reinforcing family, discipline, and truth, are quietly forming mature leaders while government education collapses under its own contradictions.#ChristianEducation #PublicSchoolFailure #FamilyMatters #BiblicalWorldview #AgainstStatism #EducationCrisis #TruthAndOrder #CovenantEducation #WorldviewMatters...more1h 29minPlay
April 28, 2026The Influence of Socialism in American Education (Remastered)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 permanent conflict demands a powerful state to manage it. Against this, the talk insists Scripture teaches a harmony of interests under God’s creation and law—peace, order, and mutual dependence, not endless war. The solution isn’t cosmetic reform or conservative outrage, but a full return to the doctrine of creation, which restores meaning, personal responsibility, true individuality, and limits the state. Bottom line: until education is rebuilt on biblical creation and God’s sovereign order, socialism will keep reproducing itself—no matter how hard we fight the symptoms.#ChristianEducation #CreationNotEvolution #AgainstSocialism #BiblicalWorldview #HarmonyOfInterests #LawAndOrder #Dominion #ChristianSchools #WorldviewMatters #FaithAndCulture...more1h 5minPlay
April 23, 2026Messianic Character of American Education - Q&A (Remastered)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 “neutral” law, it argues that humanism has replaced Christianity as the nation’s operating religion, enforced through courts, schools, and bureaucracy. The way forward isn’t bigger churches or stronger states—both are biblically limited—but regenerated people taking responsibility again: families, communities, and Christian institutions serving, building, and governing under God’s Word. The bottom line is sharp and hopeful: service is power, obedience is action, and Christ’s Kingdom advances when His people stop retreating and start living under His Law-Word.#ChristIsLord #BiblicalLaw #LawWord #Dominion #ChristianReconstruction #ReligiousFreedom #ServeToLead #KingJesus #FaithInAction #ChurchRenewal...more1h 28minPlay
April 21, 2026The Place of Biblical Law in Society (Remastered)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-Word. From there the core claim lands hard: every society runs on a moral code, so “neutral” law is a myth—America has been disestablishing Christianity and establishing humanism through courts, schools, and bureaucracy. The comeback isn’t building bigger church or state power-centers (both are biblically limited), but rebuilding from the ground up: God writes His law on hearts, then sends families and believers out as His workforce—creating courts, schools, mercy ministries, and “tithe-agencies” that serve real needs and push back statism. The closing punch is pure promo: service is power—the state learned it and weaponized it; now the church must repent of passivity, ditch man-made traditions, and obey Christ’s marching orders to take dominion by faithful action.#BiblicalLaw #ChristIsLord #LawWord #Dominion #ChristianReconstruction #ReligiousLiberty #FamilyGovernment #Decentralization #ServeToLead #ChurchRenewal #AntiHumanism #KingJesus...more35minPlay
April 16, 2026The Crisis of Accountability : What Can Be Done? - Crime and Crisis in Our Legal System (Remastered)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 biblical justice: restitution that restores the harmed, and—when necessary—removing the hardened offender so evil doesn’t become a professional class. Then the spotlight swings to what we’ve forgotten: “government” isn’t just the state. Real government starts with the covenant man, the family, the church, the school, vocation, community standards, and strong local associations—exactly what once made America resilient. The promo punch: if we want law and order, we must rebuild moral order—pushing back statism and reclaiming responsibility in every sphere, with Christian action that actually reforms lives.#LawAndOrder #CrimeAndJustice #BiblicalJustice #Restitution #SelfGovernment #DominionMandate #ChristianReconstruction #ChurchAndCulture #FamilyGovernment #ChristianEducation #PushBackStatism #MoralRenewal\...more55minPlay
April 14, 2026Submission to Civil Government (Remastered)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 biblical submission with medieval-style passivity (think “Patient Griselda”) or—on the other extreme—Jesuit-like, unquestioning loyalty to men and institutions. Instead, Scripture anchors submission first in God’s Word, then shows how real change comes not through revolution, coercion, or church power-plays, but through regeneration—new hearts producing new obedience. In the state, submission means honoring lawful order without pretending the state can save; in the church, submission means restoration before judgment: private confrontation, witnesses, then discipline—always aiming to win a brother back (Matthew 18; 2 Thessalonians 3). The punchline is sharp: a church that becomes only a court has failed—every member is called to pray, pursue peace, and do the hard work of love. True submission is Spirit-empowered, law-shaped, grace-driven obedience that builds people up, restores the fallen, and refuses both tyranny and cowardice.#Submission #RegenerationNotRevolution #BiblicalAuthority #Matthew18 #ChurchDiscipline #Restoration #GraceAndTruth #ChristianCommunity #Peacemakers #Obedience #KingJesus #LawWord...more39minPlay
April 09, 2026The Meaning of Life & Death: Captial Punishment and Human Life - Part 1 (Remastered)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, rejects judgment, and even protests capital punishment while fantasizing about a humanistic doomsday. That paradox is traced to humanism—man enthroned as lord, feelings elevated to the standard of right and wrong, and God’s Law dismissed as irrelevant—so that moral reasoning collapses into “what would I want if I were guilty?” and society drifts toward anarchic sentimentality. Against this, the message insists on God’s ownership of creation (“the earth is the Lord’s”), the necessity of judging by His Word rather than experience, and the meaning of “Thou shalt not kill” as a ban on all taking of life by man’s autonomous will, while affirming lawful killing only by God’s authorization (e.g., food laws, and civil justice as the Lord’s judgment carried out by magistrates). Capital punishment, in this framework, is not private vengeance but a covenantal act to “put away evil,” cleanse the land, protect life, and restrain the pollution of unchecked violence; the positive duty of the commandment is also to defend and preserve life through lawful order. The closing thrust is practical and urgent: a culture that denies God nonetheless senses it is “on death row,” waiting for judgment, and the only true hope is Christ’s saving power, His kingship, and the rebuilding of a God-centered people and institutions—especially through education—so that society is reformed from the heart outward under the Law-Word of God.#Humanism #BiblicalLaw #ThouShaltNotKill #Justice #CapitalPunishment #GodsSovereignty #CrownRightsOfKingJesus #Dominion #ChristianWorldview #LawAndOrder #CulturalRenewal #Education #Rushdoony...more1h 2minPlay
April 07, 2026Love of Neighbor - Q&A (Remastered)This teaching confronts one of the most abused phrases in Scripture—“love your neighbor as yourself”—and restores its biblical meaning by grounding love firmly in God’s law, not emotion, socialism, or sentimental tolerance of evil. Drawing from Romans 13, Leviticus 19, the teachings of Christ, and the Good Samaritan, it argues that biblical love is juridical and covenantal: to love one’s neighbor is to keep the second table of the Law by respecting life, property, home, reputation, and liberty in thought, word, and deed, even toward enemies. Far from requiring communism, emotionalism, or pacifism, true love requires justice, lawful mercy, and resistance to tyranny when obedience to the state violates obedience to God. Only those who love God—by obeying His law—can truly love themselves and their neighbors, and this biblical doctrine of love stands as the historic foundation of true civil liberty and Christian freedom.#BiblicalLaw #LoveAndLaw #ChristianWorldview #Romans13 #CivilLiberty #ChristianReconstruction #JusticeNotSentiment #GodsLaw #FaithAndWorks #BiblicalLove...more1hPlay
April 02, 2026Godly and Ungodly Mercy (Remastered)This meditation frames God’s absolute sovereignty as the ground of Christian confidence: though the nations rage and conspire, His throne stands fast, and believers are called to boldness, discipline, and victory under His government. Using Proverbs 12:10 (“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel”), it explains biblical wisdom as concrete precedent law—starting with a minimal case (kindness to animals) and extending outward to labor, justice, and society at large. Mercy, it argues, is not sentiment but obedience to God’s law, and when the wicked attempt “tender mercies” apart from God’s order, their appeasement becomes cruelty that breeds disorder and decay. The message culminates in the cross as the perfect union of law and grace—justice satisfied, mercy displayed—and calls Christians to pray for lawful authority, uphold God’s standards, and reject antinomian distortions of “grace” that sever salvation from sanctified obedience.#Proverbs1210 #BiblicalLaw #WisdomLiterature #LawAndGrace #CrownRightsOfKingJesus #ChristianWorldview #JusticeAndMercy #Sabbath #Dominion #ScriptureStudy #Rushdoony #FaithAndObedience...more50minPlay
March 31, 2026Meaning of a Sacrilege (Remastered)Sacrilege, biblically defined as “robbing God,” is not a forgotten superstition but a central Scriptural reality with enduring consequences. From Achan’s theft of what belonged to the Lord, to the judgment pronounced on Jericho, to the long-term national fallout following Henry VIII’s seizure of church property, Scripture and history testify that what is consecrated to God cannot be safely taken or withheld. Whether money, property, time, or even our very lives, all belong to God by creation and redemption, and to deny Him His due invites judgment, while restitution brings restoration and blessing. The biblical pattern is clear: God overturns sacrilege in order to reclaim what is His, and faith-filled obedience releases renewal, generosity, and the advance of His Kingdom in history.#Sacrilege #BiblicalLaw #TithesAndOfferings #RobbingGod #JudgmentAndMercy #Restitution #ChristianHistory #GodsSovereignty #FaithAndObedience...more32minPlay
FAQs about Rushdoony Radio:How many episodes does Rushdoony Radio have?The podcast currently has 150 episodes available.