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CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Congregation of the Dead
People are quick to demand sacrifices so long as someone else pays the cost. Whether for recreation, ideology, or sentiment, wisdom disappears when God’s Word…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkShould Life be Better at the Top?
Those in positions of responsibility deserve fair compensation, but when civil officials use taxpayer money for extravagant personal benefits like $85,000…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSensitive Church Members
One of the quiet weaknesses of many churches is not open rebellion, but hypersensitivity. People quick to criticize others often cannot bear the smallest…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Cultural War
In “The Cultural War,” Rushdoony argues that history is defined by an irreconcilable conflict between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of man, a conflict…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDo Lyrics Reflect or Drive Culture?
From 45s to streaming, music has always shaped culture. In this episode, we explore how song lyrics reflect and influence worldviews — from the hopeful folk…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkJohn Milton: Part 1 (English History) (Remastered)
Milton exposes a key Reformation weakness: Protestants expanded education but often didn’t reform it theologically, so classical Greek/Roman humanism stayed in…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLike People, Like Priest
Scripture reminds us that corruption is never confined to one group “like people, like priest.” When faith and character decay at the roots of a society, the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Holy Spirit and Freedom
True freedom depends on the Holy Spirit, not human reason or state power. When God’s providence and the Spirit’s rule are denied, control does not disappear it…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Stolen Church
The church belongs to Jesus Christ, yet in many places it has been taken over in His name and turned against His purpose. When Christ’s Word is replaced with…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkChurch and Government
We confuse ourselves when we reduce “government” to the state and “church” to an institution. Scripture and earlier Christian thought saw government first as…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFear and Evil
Modern man is haunted by a deep fear of evil because, having lost confidence in God’s sovereignty, he feels that nothing is secure or lasting, and that life…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGod Rewards You. Why Won't Anyone Say It?
There's a verse in Proverbs 3 that promises long life, peace, prosperity, and the respect of other men — not in heaven someday, but here, in this life. Most…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 155, October 7, 1987 - Debt Dependency of the Modern Economy
They critique the modern economy’s dependence on debt, foreign aid, and overleveraged international systems, noting the hidden costs of inflation, declining…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkProperty, Charity, and Freedom
Biblically, property and charity are personal responsibilities grounded in God’s ownership of all things, not gifts or guarantees of the state. Historically…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTrue Prayer
True prayer isn’t a ritual recited at set times it’s an ongoing conversation with God woven into everyday life. We speak to Him in brief, honest moments…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkChrist Versus Satan
This Chalcedon Report contrasts the two great kingdoms at war throughout history, the Kingdom of God under Christ and the kingdom of man under Satan, showing…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPrayer
Prayer is not about persuading God to change it’s about allowing Him to change us. Like Columbus, we often begin by asking God to fix our circumstances, only…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Water of Life
We take water for granted until it’s gone. Scripture uses that reality to press a deeper truth: without Christ, the Water of Life, man becomes a spiritual…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkOliver Cromwell (English History) (Remastered)
In corrupt 17th-century England profligate kings, collapsing morals Oliver Cromwell rose to restore godly commonwealth.Puritans: Backbone against Spanish…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFear and Man
The fear of man is one of the deadliest fears because it enslaves conscience and mind to the mob, a lawless collective ruled not by truth or love but by fear…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkListening To Life
God’s truth is never neutral it either opens hearts or hardens them. What feels “hard to hear” is often what presses on a guilty conscience, while those hungry…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWho Gets Hurt by Trade Controls?
The passage argues that trade controls and protectionism ultimately harm consumers more than they help producers. While some domestic industries may complain…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Necessary Future
In “The Necessary Future,” Rushdoony argues that history is moving inexorably toward the collapse of statism, a faith that has repeatedly sought to replace God…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkConflicting Ideas of Freedom
Freedom does not mean the same thing to everyone. In practice, there are two opposing definitions: freedom from law (lawlessness or antinomianism) and freedom…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFaith and Works
Scripture is clear: real faith never stays invisible. Faith without works is dead because God’s grace actually changes people, producing obedience as naturally…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRichard III (English History) (Remastered)
Rushdoony frames Richard III as a classic “loser” smeared by the winners—Tudor propagandists (amplified by Shakespeare) shaped the enduring villain myth—yet…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre We Conquering or Surrendering?
If Christ is truly King of kings and Lord of lords, why does so much of the modern church operate as though His reign is deferred, limited, or irrelevant to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkNeo-Platonism vs. Christianity: Part I (Flight From Knowledge and Life) (Remastered)
This excerpt confronts modern relativism as a deliberate “flight from knowledge,” tracing how thinkers like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and others helped…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPerseverance and Progress
John Donne understood how easily the human mind drifts even in prayer but Scripture gives a deeper assurance: God’s people persevere, not by their own…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFear and the Future
A man ruled by fear cannot live in the present or face the future, and so he escapes into fantasy, dreaming of a painless tomorrow where responsibility…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHindsight
Hindsight often masquerades as wisdom, but knowing outcomes is not the same as giving wise counsel before decisions are made. True wisdom doesn’t sneer at past…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 154, September 11, 1987 - The Pitfalls of Free Trade
R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott examine the pitfalls of free trade, protectionism, and modern economic policies. Rushdoony notes that free trade presupposes a…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Nature of Freedom
True freedom is not license or lawlessness it is liberty under God’s law. History shows that societies which redefine freedom as moral autonomy or sexual…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Exaltation of a People
The founders believed a nation rises or falls not by power or policy, but by righteousness before God. They took Proverbs seriously “Righteousness exalteth a…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Serpent in the Fence
Break God’s fences and you don’t find freedom you find a serpent waiting. Scripture warns that those who tear down God’s boundaries carry judgment inside the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWe Are at War
In “We Are At War,” Rushdoony contends that a coordinated, global assault on Biblical Christianity is underway, not primarily through open persecution but…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFear and Truth
Fear often shows itself as a dread of truth, a kind of spiritual claustrophobia in which men feel hemmed in and threatened whenever they are required to face…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkJohn Wycliffe (English History) (Remastered)
In the corrupt 14th century church moral decay, papal tyranny, externalism John Wycliffe rose as Morning Star of Reformation.Bible as God's Law-Book translated…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThieves and Robbers
Jesus made an uncompromising claim: truth is exclusive, and salvation is found in Him alone. Our age recoils at that idea, preferring a tolerant blur where…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhat is Wrong with Deficit Spending?
The passage argues that deficit spending is both economically and morally harmful. Economically, running annual deficits accumulates national debt, threatens…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkVan Til’s Christian-Theistic Ethics
In “Van Til’s Christian Theistic Ethics,” Rushdoony argues that Cornelius Van Til’s 1947 work provides a powerful theological foundation for an eschatology of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPlanting Thorns and Thistles
A nation always harvests what it plants. When good work is punished and idleness is rewarded, the result is inevitable: thorns instead of fruit. Scripture is…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Battle (Enemies in the Church) (Remastered)
\Jude 17–25 calls believers to perseverance in the ongoing battle of the last days, reminding them that mockers, false teachers, and ungodly influences were…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Vengeance of God
God’s vengeance is not an arbitrary punishment imposed from outside it is the unavoidable outcome of sin itself. Scripture teaches that blessings overtake…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkVouchers, Freedom, and Slavery
State-funded vouchers promise relief but deliver control. History shows that wherever government money goes, government authority follows eroding the freedom…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCan Social Media Become a Mission Field?
Is sharing the gospel primarily a matter of technique and theological sophistication, or is it rooted in an urgent conviction that God places within His…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Two Ten Commandments
History has always been governed by law but today two rival “Ten Commandments” stand opposed. God’s law, given to Moses, built Christian civilization by…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFear and the Present
To be afraid of the present is to be paralyzed by guilt and fear, so that even ordinary responsibilities feel overwhelming and are endlessly postponed, leaving…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhat is Law?
Law is never morally neutral. Every law declares something right or wrong, because law is simply morality enforced. The real question isn’t whether we…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkK!ll the Men, Take the Women: The Real Story of Genesis 6
Forget the giants — they're not in the Hebrew text. Genesis 6 describes something darker: a campaign to exterminate the godly line by murdering the men and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 153, September 4, 1987 - The Contemporary Influence of the Transcendentalists
Dr. Rushdoony and Otto Scott analyze modernism as a cultural and intellectual force rooted in the Transcendentalists, particularly Emerson and Frothingham…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFreedom and Responsibility
True freedom always carries responsibility and risk. When people refuse to govern themselves under God’s moral law, they invite control by bureaucracies that…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkBread Upon the Waters
“Cast your bread upon the waters” is a call to faith that sacrifices the present for the sake of the future. Farmers understood it well: sowing their last…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkA Letter on Logic and Idolatry
In “A Letter on Logic and Idolatry,” Rushdoony argues that rationalistic apologetics, rooted in Greek philosophy, commit idolatry by treating abstract logic…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkGod's Tax
The tithe is God’s tax, rooted in a simple truth: the earth belongs to the Lord. God, not the state, is the true owner, and the tithe is His rightful claim…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAre You Afraid of the Past?
To be afraid of the present is to be paralyzed by guilt and fear, so that even ordinary responsibilities feel overwhelming and are endlessly postponed, leaving…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRighteous Judgment (Enemies in the Church) (Remastered)
Jude unleashes a scathing rebuke against false teachers infiltrating the church filthy dreamers defiling flesh, despising authority, slandering dignities.Even…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRogation Sunday
Rogation Sunday once reminded communities that land, harvest, and life itself depend on God and that boundaries matter. Families didn’t just pray for crops…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDr. Cornelius Van Til
Cornelius Van Til is presented as a watershed figure whose thought confronts every thinker with an unavoidable ultimatum: begin and end with the triune God of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDo We Have a Dynasty of Wealth in the United States?
This passage argues that the United States does not have a permanent dynasty of wealth. While some inherited fortunes exist, the majority of the richest…