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A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Introducing the daily messages by R. J. Rushdoony on the uncompromising faith.These daily messages on the faith for all of life are unlike any compilation of Christian "devotional" ever published. A Word in Season reveals the intense, but simple, approach to applying one's faith to every area of life and thought. This is all done in a format of bite-sized readings on the uncompromising faith.
Episodes
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Work as a Privilege
What happened to seeing work as a joy, not a burden? This episode reflects on a childhood memory emptying a pencil sharpener as a symbol of a time when work…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Virtue
What is true virtue? This episode reclaims the biblical meaning of virtue not mere avoidance of sin, but strength, courage, and moral power. Rooted in…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Planting Trees
What does it mean to plant trees at 85, crippled and alone? This episode reflects on an elderly woman’s quiet act of faith planting fruit trees for a future…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Is it a Man's World?
Is it really a man's world? This episode challenges that idea head-on, reminding us that the world belongs to God not to men, women, or any group. Authority…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Rottenness in the Bones
Today’s culture often glorifies envy encouraging resentment of others’ success in politics, work, and society. But Scripture calls envy “the rottenness of the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Life of Great Gain
Why do so many of our desires seem to work against each other? In this thoughtful reflection, R.J. Rushdoony examines how our pursuit of contradictory goals in…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Crippled Minds
Impatience breeds anarchy. When people refuse to work or wait, they seek shortcuts and in doing so, they destroy the very wealth, peace, and progress they…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Old Line Americans
Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Lawless Law
When courts use technicalities to deny justice, the law becomes lawless. Good laws cannot save a society with bad character because law is only as strong as…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Law Enforcement
Crime cannot be controlled by police alone. When less than 1% of serious crimes lead to prison, the real issue isn’t capacity it’s character. Lax juries…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Idleness
Scripture and history agree: idleness leads to decay. Earlier generations understood work as a privilege and a duty to God, neighbor, and society. Labor…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Impatience
Impatience breeds anarchy. When people refuse to work or wait, they seek shortcuts and in doing so, they destroy the very wealth, peace, and progress they…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Priorities
Work matters to God. Wealth honestly created is not opposed to faith it enables charity and advances God’s Kingdom. “Charity begins at work.” When discipline…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Treaties
God repeatedly forbids alliances with ungodly nations not out of isolationism, but because faith governs truth, meaning, and purpose. When truth itself is…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
What is Man Like?
Israel remembered Egypt’s food but forgot Egypt’s chains. Faced with hardship, they were willing to trade faith and freedom for the comforts of slavery (Num…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Love and Obedience
Scripture leaves no room for sentimentality: love is proven by obedience. God’s demand under both the old and new covenants is not feelings, but faithful…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The People of Salt
When Jesus called His followers “the salt of the earth” (Matt. 5:13), He meant preservers, not mere flavoring. Salt restrains corruption. To belong to Christ…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Taxation
Taxation is not morally neutral. From David’s census to modern tax policy, Scripture and history warn that the power to tax can become the power to destroy…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Honest Work
Paul is clear: Christians must learn to practice honest work so that they are not unfruitful or idle (Titus 3:14). The church cared for the truly needy, but it…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The False Focus
When church life becomes about managing people, filling pews, or meeting personal expectations, something vital is lost. Worship turns into pressure, and faith…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Man's Sole Purpose
When civilizations lose hope, they fall back on the same lie: “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” It’s an ancient slogan of despair, echoing from…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Whom the Lord Loveth
Scripture teaches that God’s discipline is not cruelty but care. The Hebrew paquadh means both “to visit” and “to chasten” to punish and to care. Like a kite…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Pruning
Jesus reminds us that fruitful branches are pruned not punished so they may bear more fruit (John 15:2). Discipline is not a sign of rejection, but of love…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Truth and the Lie
Jesus declared, “I am the truth” (John 14:6). To know Him is to live in reality, not imagination or compromise. There is no middle ground between truth and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Thy Light is Come
Zacharias proclaimed that Christ’s coming meant salvation with power, victory without fear, and light breaking into darkness (Luke 1:67–79). Christmas was not…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Choice
Scripture leaves no room for indecision. Joshua and Elijah both confronted God’s people with the same demand: stop halting between two opinions and choose whom…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Death of Herod Agrippa I
The Death of Herod Agrippa I Herod Agrippa accepted worship as a god, basking in public praise and political favor but in that very hour, God struck him down…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Our Professional Thieves
It’s easy to blame the taxman but the deeper problem is us. When we demand subsidies, special services, and benefits from the state, we are asking civil…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
King John's World
Modern culture confuses efficiency with wisdom. King John is praised today not for character or leadership, but for expanding bureaucracy and record-keeping…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Christ vs. Caesar
Early Christians were executed for one simple refusal: they would not call Caesar “lord.” To them, state-controlled religion was no freedom at all it made the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Name of the Lord
Genesis tells us that when Seth named his son Enosh “mortal” men began to call upon the name of the LORD (Gen. 4:26). The contrast is deliberate: man is…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Good Preaching
Faithful preaching has never been about making people feel comfortable it’s about telling the truth. God’s Word confronts sin, exposes self-deception, and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Invisible Communion
Scripture reveals an unseen divide among men. The foolish those who reject God are bound together by shared guilt and rebellion. Their unity is rooted in sin…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Change
Times change, technology changes but man’s problem remains the same: sin. No invention, from the atom bomb to the smallest tool, can solve the human heart’s…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Majoring in Minors
When the house is on fire, no one stops to dust the furniture. Yet too often, Christians fixate on trifles while the world burns. This is what it means to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Hearing Coyotes
Familiar sounds can fade into the background until we no longer notice them. So it is with God’s Word. When we hear it often without truly listening, we become…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Jonah
Jonah’s story exposes a familiar flaw: caring more about our comfort than God’s mercy. He fled from God’s call, preached unwillingly, and then grew angry when…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Beginnings
Everything depends on where you begin. Scripture opens with God as Creator (Gen. 1:1), and from that flows law, meaning, order, and salvation. Begin instead…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Land of Lawlessness
A nation collapses fastest when it refuses to face its own sin. America’s greatest threat is no longer foreign enemies, but internal lawlessness, denial, and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Farm Stealing
Petty thieves risk much for little gain but the biggest thefts today are legal. Through taxation and so-called “aid” programs, small farmers are quietly wiped…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Legislate Morality?
The claim “you can’t legislate morality” is itself a lie because all law legislates morality. Laws against murder, theft, fraud, or even reckless driving are…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Fear of Freedom
History shows that men often fear freedom more than tyranny. From ancient philosophers to modern voters, freedom is treated as dangerous because it requires…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Dictatorship and Freedom
Totalitarianism almost always rises in the name of “liberty.” History shows the pattern: societies are promised freedom, but the only freedom expanded is the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Freedom and the Vote
Freedom has never been created at the ballot box. Voting reflects the character of a people it does not transform it. Tyrants aren’t voted out, and revolutions…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Resources and Advantages
Natural resources and strategic advantages do not guarantee greatness. History proves it. Constantinople lost its power. Egypt’s rich soil did not bring…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Bramble Men
Jotham’s parable warns what happens when productive people refuse power and bramble men seize it instead (Judg. 9). The olive, fig, and vine were busy…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Praising the Wicked
Scripture is blunt: when God’s law is abandoned, the wicked are praised instead of restrained (Prov. 28:4). A justice system that protects criminals while…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Political Saviors
From ancient Rome to today, rulers have promised salvation through politics. Caesar claimed it, modern politicians repeat it. But Scripture draws a sharp line…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Foundation
Jesus Christ warned that only a life or a nation built on Him can withstand the storms (Matt. 7:24–27). Built on man instead, it will surely fall. Even…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Baal Worshippers
When hundreds of laws are rushed through without debate, the deeper problem isn’t politicians it’s the people. Many believe salvation comes through…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Right to Lie?
The idea that governments have a “right” to lie is not new it goes back to Plato and later thinkers like Nietzsche, who argued that truth is dangerous or even…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
In the Mind of Christ
Scripture reminds us that “the thoughts of the righteous are right” (Prov. 12:5) not meaning every passing thought, but the governing principles that shape a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Danger
“Danger” once meant being under the power of a master not merely facing trouble. In its original sense, we are in danger whenever we live under authorities…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Cease Ye from Man
A minor pleasure in life is the quiet satisfaction of “I told you so.” I once parked my old car in front of a hotel and locked it as always. A friend pulled up…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Protection Against Men
People are often a problem to us through their sin and folly, and our own and many become obsessed with protecting themselves, their churches, groups, and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Trick Questions
Asking the wrong questions always yields wrong answers just as the trick question “Have you stopped beating your wife?” forces a false dilemma and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Not by Bread Alone
In A.D. 840, Bertram of Corbie wrote that the soul is not nourished by physical bread but by “the bread of eternal life,” the Word of God and His grace. As…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Men and Many Sparrows
Our Lord declares in Matthew 10:29–31 that God cares even for the sparrows, yet He affirms, “Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Loving God
Today, the average Christian gives only about 3 percent of his income to the Lord’s work far less than the biblical tithe yet feels no guilt. Meanwhile…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Law as a Song
Our attitude toward God’s law is tragically warped today we view it as a burdensome restraint on human freedom, when in truth it is a gracious gift of love…