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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
Seizure and Property
The word “seizure” once meant lawful ownership and peaceful possession in old English law, yet today it signifies confiscation by force the very opposite. This…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Meaning of Words
Charles Curtis once observed that modern legal interpretation concerns itself not with the plain meaning of words but only with their boundaries how far they…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
In God We Trust
Men today have no right to complain about the growing crises and collapse around us, for they have reaped exactly what they sowed. When we trust in civil…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Confounding the Mighty
Paul declares in 1 Corinthians 1:27 that “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Work of Faith
Paul thanks God for the Thessalonian believers’ “work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 1:3), showing that…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Judgment
In Psalm 9, David exults that God executes righteous judgment, declaring, “The LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. And he…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Word of Rebellion
A common complaint today is: “A good God couldn’t allow that to happen,” as if God must conform to our personal standard of goodness or be judged guilty. Yet…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
God and the Future
A prominent professor once claimed the future is an open, unbound field with no effect on the present, yet Scripture declares otherwise: God governs every…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Resurrection
When Paul stood before King Agrippa, he posed a piercing question: “Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Change
Things change relentlessly in this world: twelve presidents have come and gone since my birth, rivers where I once fished now look unrecognizable, familiar…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The King of Kings
Paul declares Jesus Christ “the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords” (1 Tim. 6:15) the Great King who stands behind every throne…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
"Another King, One Jesus"
In the pagan cities of the Roman Empire where abortion, homosexuality, and state-sanctioned prostitution were not only tolerated but celebrated the early…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Light at Evening Time
When the shadows of evening fall when darkness seems to swallow the world, when history appears locked in a downward spiral of sin, disaster, and despair God…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Born of the Virgin Mary
The Apostles’ Creed boldly declares the personal faith of every believer: “I believe… in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Future
We all wonder and often fear what the future holds: aging, disappointments, pain, and the shadow of death seem to loom large, while the world around us appears…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Ferocious Time
The apostles declared that we are living in the “last days” the intense era that began with Christ’s first coming and will end with His return. In these…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Fearing Tomorrow
In 1139, the Lateran Council condemned the crossbow as too deadly for Christian warriors, yet the weapon soon became a standard of warfare because yesterday’s…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Festival of Time
In the Bible, every new month and every new year was a festival, a holy day consecrated to God, not to nature or human schemes. While pagans marked time by the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Time
We can soar across oceans or even touch the moon, yet no one can leap over time neither backward to relive childhood nor forward to escape today’s trials…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Prince of Peace
In a world where violent marches claim the name of peace, and cities burn while crowds scramble for gold instead of guarding it, true peace remains impossible…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Power of the Word
In a world where violent marches claim the name of peace, and cities burn while crowds scramble for gold instead of guarding it, true peace remains impossible…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Unchanging Word
Times, tastes, and customs change but the church remains alive only by the one thing that never does: the Word of God. Hymns, forms, and preferences may differ…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
On Eating Our Gifts
What we give to God has a way of coming back to us. A man who cut corners on a house meant as a retirement gift ended up living in the very mess he built a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Vulture Society vs. A Diaconal Society
Jesus sets a stark choice before every society: service or predation. A culture built on the lust for power becomes a vulture society devouring, distrustful…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Sensitive 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Like 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Church 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
True 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Prayer
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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Listening 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Faith 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Perseverance 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Perseverance 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Hindsight
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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Word of Rebellion
A common complaint today is: “A good God couldn’t allow that to happen,” as if God must conform to our personal standard of goodness or be judged guilty. Yet…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Thieves 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Planting 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
What 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Bread 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
God'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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Rogation 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Lord's Judgment
When Scripture says “the judgment is God’s,” it means justice must be measured by God’s law, not human opinion. Courts, commerce, and daily life are all called…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Blindfold on Justice
A president cannot truly be “for all the people” if that means affirming every claim and every so-called right. Scripture defines civil authority not as a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Oath
Deuteronomy 27 and 28 make clear that God alone sets the terms of blessing and judgment, because the land belongs to Him. That truth once shaped America…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
False Expectations
Disillusionment comes when we demand salvation from things that were never meant to carry that weight marriage, money, work reforms, wars, or politics. History…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Family and Welfare
The greatest welfare system in history was never run by the state it was built by the family. Scripture makes family responsibility non-negotiable, calling…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Farming and National Welfare
What happens to farmers doesn’t stay on the farm it ripples through the entire nation. When agriculture collapses, cities swell into poverty and unemployment…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Two Plans
There are always two plans at work in history. One trusts salvation to centralized, scientific planning by men, where families, private ownership, and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Government
All real government begins with self-government. When people refuse to govern themselves under God, they invite someone else to rule them and history shows…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Kick Me Generation
Some people don’t just stumble into trouble they invite it. Like wearing a hidden “Kick Me” sign, they provoke authority, despise correction, and then cry…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Hypocrites
Hypocrisy thrives when we condemn the sins we don’t commit while quietly protecting the ones we do. It’s easy to demand reform from legislators, neighbors, or…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Wisdom: True or False?
True wisdom isn’t found in forcing others to change it begins with being changed ourselves by God’s grace and His Word. The world is full of people who try to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Standards
Prices, ages, and even fish stories seem to change over time but the real issue is not the thing being measured, it’s the yardstick. Money has shrunk in value…