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CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs He a Christian?
Some church members tolerated a man whose conduct was repeatedly dishonest, disruptive, and morally offensive, excusing their inaction by saying, “Maybe he…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs God an Insurance Agent?
Many churchgoers treat God the way they treat an insurance agent: they believe Him only on matters like Heaven, hell, and salvation, but refuse to believe in…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWait Patiently for Him
Psalm 37 speaks directly to the believer’s struggle when the wicked prosper and the righteous seem hindered, calling us not to fret or grow resentful but to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkRebuke and Excommunication (Remastered) (The Church)
Biblical rebukes and excommunication are not institutional tools to protect the church’s prestige but covenantal acts aimed at restoring God’s order in faith…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 146, May 14, 1987 — Book Reviews: Roots, Vision, and the Future Under God
In Easy Chair 146 (May 14, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony argues that a culture survives only when it honors both past and future: despising the past makes a people…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHappiness
Not long ago people commonly told pastors, “I’m not needed,” because the great fear was to be useless; today, the complaint has shifted to “I’m not happy,”…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkInvisible Rulers
The belief in secret, unseen rulers controlling history is a way of avoiding responsibility. Scripture teaches that all men already know the truth of God but…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow Gideon Drained the Swamp, Judges 8:13–21
Gideon returns at sunrise — the sun in his strength, the embodiment of Deborah's blessing. He grabs a literate teenager, takes down the names of all 77 elders…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkExaggeration and Denial
In “Exaggeration and Denial” (Chalcedon Report No. 422), Rushdoony argues that modern relativism, grounded in the myth of neutrality, has corrupted truth by…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHumility
A farmer complained that his prosperous neighbor “felt too good” for him, yet the real issue was not the neighbor’s pride but his own lack of humility. Though…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIt is More Blessed
Our Lord’s words, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” challenge our natural instincts, which tie happiness to what we hope to gain rather than to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPersonal Problems
Faithful pastors often spend less time on the great doctrines of the faith and more on untangling personal problems, because sinful man is always more…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Family as a Power Center (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
This session argues that the family is the real power center of civilization, which is why every revolutionary system—from Plato’s philosopher-kings to modern…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDoes Bionic Man Have a Future?
This passage critiques the uncritical glorification of science and technological enhancements, using the “bionic man” as a symbol of this trend. The author…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Disastrous War
In “The Disastrous War” (Chalcedon Report No. 369), Rushdoony argues that the American Civil War was the greatest tragedy in U.S. history, not only because of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTesting and Purity
Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526–1555), the brilliant Italian scholar raised among nobility and intellectuals, lived a life far harsher than her privileged…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkJuvenile Justice and the Family (Doctrine of the Family)
Modern “juvenile justice” can’t be understood until you see the sleight-of-hand behind it: the state keeps redefining what counts as “public” and “private” so…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Hegelian Revolution
The Hegelian revolution completed a long philosophical shift that began with Descartes: reality and truth were relocated from God and creation to the human…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPruning
William Blake, the brilliant English poet and painter, squandered his greatness because he abandoned biblical faith for the radical dreams of the French…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCan Experience Teach?
A traveler in Europe in 1959 discovered a farming valley dying not because the soil was poor or young men were unwilling, but because inherited customs had…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLearning and Wisdom
A very old and vital distinction going back at least to Solomon is the difference between learning and wisdom. Learning is the accumulation of facts…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkObedience: Ephesians 6
In Ephesians 6, Paul teaches that obedience is essential to godly life and social order, beginning in the home and extending to work, citizenship, and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDiscipline (Remastered)
True discipline is not punishment but systematic training under God’s authority, producing learning, growth, and submission to His law-word; chastisement is…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 145, May 6, 1987
In Easy Chair No. 145, R.J. Rushdoony and Joseph McAuliffe examine the state of Christian fundraising, highlighting widespread concern over unethical…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Myth of Nature
The myth of nature treats the created world as a moral authority something inherently good, normative, and self-justifying. While nature is real, the myth…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkFools
I once heard a minister whose entire sermon amounted to blasphemy, complaints about his upbringing, and resentment toward the way God made the world. His…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTreason in the Pew, Treason in the Pulpit, Judges 8:4–12
Gideon and 300 exhausted men cross the Jordan chasing 15,000. They ask Succoth for bread and get mocked. Penuel does the same. Two towns of unique covenantal…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkAs a Man Thinketh
Old frontier movies and revolutionary films of the 30s and 40s have been replaying for decades, and now their spirit shows up in the streets as shallow…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHostility to Christianity
In “Hostility to Christianity” (Chalcedon Report No. 155), Rushdoony argues that the drive to abolish Christianity did not begin with modern revolutions but…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkResponsibility
Man often claims absolute independence, insisting he is accountable to no one but himself, yet such freedom is an illusion, for no one can secede from an…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to Produce a Hippie
If you want to produce a generation of hippies, the formula is simple: remove God, Scripture, and moral law from schools so children learn that faith is…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Family as Trustee (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
This message traces the modern war on the family to humanism’s twin goals: erasing God and dismantling the family as a governing institution. Drawing on…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Law of the Pack
A worried mother went to meet her son’s teacher after receiving a note from the school, fearing her junior-high-aged Eddie already both mature and helpful at…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDepending on Evil
In “Depending on Evil” (Chalcedon Report No. 112), Rushdoony argues that modern states consistently trust and support evil regimes because corruption is…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkDone Any Nagging Lately?
This passage explores the origin and meaning of the word nag, tracing it from its Scandinavian roots meaning “to gnaw, bite, or burrow” to its modern sense of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCatharsis
Catharsis is the belief that health personal or social comes through the uninhibited expression of inner impulses. Originating in Greek tragedy, it was later…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTrain Up a Child
When Ben-hadad besieged Samaria, his demand for Ahab’s gold and silver aimed to cripple Israel’s strength, and his demand for the king’s wives intended to…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Significance of the Family as a Social Institution (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
This session confronts the social power of the biblical family and explains why it is relentlessly targeted by the modern state: under God, the family governs…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWho Owns the Child?
A century ago, John Swett the architect of California’s public school system openly denied that parents had any rights in government education, insisting that…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhat Can the Righteous Do?
When the foundations seem destroyed and evil appears entrenched, Psalm 11 answers despair with faith: the righteous are not called to flee in fear but to trust…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Priesthood of All Believers (Remastered) (The Church)
The priesthood of all believers is not a New Testament novelty but an Old Testament doctrine rooted in God’s covenant declaration that His people are a kingdom…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkPoverty by Choice
I have before me a treasured book first published in 1875, written by one of America’s great Christian educators. Recently, while lecturing at an Ivy League…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkEasy Chair No. 144, April 16, 1987
In this broadcast, R.J. Rushdoony, Otto Scott, and R.E. McMaster discuss the moral and religious collapse of the Western world and its profound impact on…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkTitanism
Titanism is the glorification of human effort that seeks to do the impossible, often disguising pride as virtue. Rooted in Greek mythology and revived by…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCharity Begins at Home
Twice recently friends asked my opinion of glamorous new “charities” their women’s groups had adopted causes I’ll call the Friends of the Whoopee Indians and…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Return to Barbarism
Mrs. B___ lives in a lovely home in an elite neighborhood and prides herself on being a “good” liberal parent, insisting her teenagers bring home every sort of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkJustice and Authority
This passage explores the origin and meaning of the word nag, tracing it from its Scandinavian roots meaning “to gnaw, bite, or burrow” to its modern sense of…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkWhen Your Brothers Pick a Fight, Judges 8:1–3
You've done the hard thing. The Lord has blessed it. And the men who turn up looking for a row aren't your enemies — they're your brothers. Ephraim sat out…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIrrelevant Preaching
Some years ago, when a farmhouse caught fire in the middle of the night, the family barely escaped, but the tidy housewife paused in the burning living room…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkLet Not Your Heart Be Troubled
In John 14 our Lord speaks words of deep comfort to troubled disciples by answering their fears with Himself: He is the way to the Father, the truth incarnate…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Family and Religion (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
This session frames the family as a fundamentally religious institution—not merely sociological or economic—and uses Psalm 127 to argue that true “security”…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkCan One Book Turn Your Life Upside Down? (guest Perry Coughlan)
Perry Coughlin didn't set out to become a Christian Reconstructionist. He was being trained as a Wesleyan Arminian minister when a single book reoriented…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHistory
In “History” (Chalcedon Report No. 108), Rushdoony argues that history is not merely a record of past events but the remembered past shaped by faith, memory…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkIs Mexicos Problem Americas Problem Too?
This passage argues that Mexico’s debt crisis in 1982 is not just Mexico’s problem but a global and particularly American one. The United States and other…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Depths of Satan
In Revelation, Christ condemns those in Thyatira who believed that true Christianity required studying “the depths of Satan” (Rev. 2:24). Many in the early…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMonergism and Synergism
The debate over monergism vs. synergism concerns who is decisive in salvation. Monergism teaches that salvation is entirely the work of God’s sovereign grace…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkThe Centrality of the Family (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)
This session argues that the family is God’s central institution, deliberately placed at the heart of human life so that every person—husband, wife…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkMonergism and Synergism
The debate over monergism vs. synergism concerns who is decisive in salvation. Monergism teaches that salvation is entirely the work of God’s sovereign grace…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkHow to Insure Trouble
Rev. T. Robert Ingram tells of a Navy commander in WWII who, during his first battle, issued grand orders “Fire one, fire two” only to erupt in panic when the…
CR101 Radio - Podcast NetworkSolitude
A famous actress of the 1930s was known for her motto, “I want to be alone,” and she remained an unhappy woman to the end, proving that neither crowds nor…