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CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkA Death Sentence for Obeying God?
Gideon obeyed the explicit command of God — he tore down the altar of Baal, chopped down the Asherah pole, and offered a burnt sacrifice to the Lord. By…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Cartesian Heresy
Quietism turned Christianity into passive inward spirituality, separating heart from mind and prayer from action. It treated engagement with doctrine, law, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Place of Biblical Law in Society (Remastered)
The Place of Biblical Law in Society (Crime and Punishment) https://cr101radio.com/podcast/the-place-of-biblical-law-in-society-crime-and-punishment This…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Right to Sin
There is no such thing as a right to sin, yet many people live as though their good works entitle them to an occasional moral holiday. A church officer who…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkQuietism
Quietism turned Christianity into passive inward spirituality, separating heart from mind and prayer from action. It treated engagement with doctrine, law, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkExcuses
Scripture makes unmistakably clear that God accepts no excuses. In Genesis 3:9–19, Adam’s and Eve’s attempts to shift blame only deepen their guilt, revealing…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEntering Life
Proverbs 30:20 gives a penetrating insight into sin: “Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Eldership (Remastered) (The Church)
This section argues that eldership is an older, covenantal office that the church inherits rather than invents rooted in Israel’s family-and-tribal order…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAdoption
Adoption is one of the most glorious doctrines of Scripture, defining the believer’s relationship to God not merely as forgiven sinner or renewed creature, but…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair, No. 140, February the 13th, 1987 — What Is Going to Happen to Us?
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 worked out—and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkVision
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 called…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Cartesian Heresy
Cartesianism makes the human mind the source of truth and reality (“I think, therefore I am”), replacing God’s revealed world with subjective ideas and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkInnocent III
In “Innocent III” (Chalcedon Report No. 151), Rushdoony examines how well-intentioned but misdirected efforts at moral renewal can deepen rather than cure…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTrue Blindness
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 it is…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe 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…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkProud Sins
One of the evidences of our fallen nature is how deeply pride infects our sins: women may deny snoring, parishioners deny stinginess, and even criminals boast…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSanctification
Sanctification is not the product of human willpower or self-imposed suffering, as illustrated by the frustrated efforts of monks and hermits who tried to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs Federal Aid Destroying America?
This passage describes a common problem with federally funded local projects: well-meaning federal grants can incentivize unnecessary construction, often at…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkScience and Magic
In “Science and Magic” (Chalcedon Report No. 370), Rushdoony argues that both science and magic, despite appearing opposed, share a common foundation: they…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSelf-Righteousness
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, “How can he…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPietism Revisitied
Pietism rejected doctrine as “dead” and reduced Christianity to emotion and private experience. Being “born again” was emphasized without Biblical definition…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSubmission to Civil Government (Crime and Punishment) (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…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSubmission 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…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Ultimate Sin
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 suit…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGrunters in the Pew
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: believers whose…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPastors
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 line with…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEffectual Calling
Because human beings are constantly changing in tastes, emotions, and even convictions, it might seem that faith itself is insecure and that salvation could be…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLaw in Acts and Epistles (Remastered)
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-testament…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 139, February the 12th, 1987 — Faith, Suggestibility, and the Myth of “Brainwashing”
In this episode (Feb. 12, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony dismantles the modern “brainwashing” narrative by drawing on suppressed Korean War research: the most resilient…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkBiblical Guidance
At a recent meeting I witnessed something chilling: men who profess Christ calmly violated a verbal contract and effectively stole half a million dollars all…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPietism
Pietism began as a reaction against cold formalism, but it quickly became a distortion of the Christian faith. By dismissing doctrine, theology, and systematic…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkReligious Buildings
A familiar complaint insists that spending money on church buildings is wasteful even sinful. But Scripture says the opposite: God rebukes those who live in…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTotal Meaning
In “Total Meaning” (Chalcedon Report No. 380), Rushdoony argues that because God created all things, the universe is a realm of total meaning, with no brute or…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Generation with Nothing Left to Lose
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 to tear…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkChristmas
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 stop…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe 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…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSin
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 itself is the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDo We Have a New Kind of Prejudice?
This passage critiques the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granting the Communist Party special privileges in campaign reporting, exempting it…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWords
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 talk far too…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkExperience
In “Experience” (Chalcedon Report No. 107), Rushdoony critiques the modern elevation of personal experience and mass appeal over objective, God-ordained truth…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAdvice
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 their path, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Cathars
Catharism was a medieval revival of Manichaean dualism that masqueraded as true Christianity while denying its foundations. By asserting two ultimate powers a…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLove of Neighbor (Crime and Punishment) 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…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNagging
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 fable…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Cultural Mandate (Remastered) (The Law in the New Testament)
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 Commission, God calls…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Promise of Life
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 placed in…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkShortcuts
Man’s constant search for shortcuts to God, to happiness, and to fulfillment only leads him further from his goal, because every supposed shortcut seeks to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPelagianism
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 affirming human…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 138, January the 3rd, 1987
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott examine the cultural and philosophical climate of the 20th century, focusing on existentialism and its pervasive influence…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Fear of Death
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 him of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhen God Waits: Patience, Preparation, and the Price of a Commission
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 between…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Myth of Neutrality
In “The Myth of Neutrality” (Chalcedon Report No. 224), Rushdoony argues that neutrality is a fundamentally false and destructive concept rooted in atheism…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhite Hairs
While traveling recently, I met a man in his fifties who looked barely thirty-five pleasant, sincere, but strikingly immature. A lifetime without work had…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGodly and Ungodly Mercy (Crime and Punishment) (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…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGratitude
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 Paul says the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWishful Thinking: James 1:14
Wishful thinking is man’s attempt to escape reality by enthroning desire over truth, replacing logic with impulse and turning life from the service of God into…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLearning Patience
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 sends more not to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe New Idolatry
In “The New Idolatry” (Chalcedon Report No. 222), Rushdoony argues that modern theology has reproduced idolatry in subtler forms by relocating sovereignty…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre We Regulating Ourselves into Tyranny?
This passage warns that excessive regulation even over seemingly minor matters like lawn maintenance can erode personal freedom and lead society toward…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDynamite, Not Feelings: What God's Presence Actually Means
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 excuse: my clan…