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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
Fallen Man
History and experience alike expose the truth Scripture declares: apart from Christ, man is fallen and dangerous. An early archaeologist once observed a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Two Ancient Heresies
“Judge not” is one of the most misused phrases in the Bible often quoted to shut down truth rather than protect it. Scripture doesn’t forbid judgment; it…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Judge Not
“Judge not” is often quoted to silence moral clarity, but Scripture means something far deeper. The Bible never forbids judgment itself it forbids false…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Judgment
The birth of Jesus Christ was not the arrival of a harmless figurehead, but the coming of a true King one born to rule, to defend, and to enforce justice. In…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Birth of a King
The birth of Jesus Christ was not the arrival of a harmless figurehead, but the coming of a true King one born to rule, to defend, and to enforce justice. In…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Increase of His Government and Peace
Isaiah foretold that Christ would bear the government of the world on His shoulders and that His rule and peace would never stop increasing. True peace…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Resurrection
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a vague spiritual symbol it is the decisive victory of God in history, in body and soul, over sin, death, and every…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Time of God's Power
When church and state drift into self-glory and abandon obedience to God, it can feel like everything is lost but history tells a very different story. God has…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Seeds or Weeds
You don’t get vegetables by pulling weeds you get them by planting seeds. Yet millions spend their lives fighting what’s wrong in culture, church, and society…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Relaxed Man
We live in an age medicated for tension but starved for peace. Surrounded by constant noise, bad news, and pressure, we try to treat anxiety with pills while…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Faith in Action
She summed it up in one sentence: “You take it, Lord it’s too much for me.” In a hospital hallway, amid stories of grief piled on grief, that simple act of…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Faith
Some people treat faith like a possession something comforting, personal, and safe while others find that faith has taken hold of them and refuses to let go…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Faith
Some people treat faith like a possession something comforting, personal, and safe while others find that faith has taken hold of them and refuses to let go…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Coward Who Won a Medal
He called himself a coward but history called him brave. When a runaway freight train hurtled down a mountain grade, every confident man jumped off except one…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Inscription at Timgad
An ancient Roman inscription declared, “To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh that is life,” and it perfectly captured the mindset that led Rome to collapse…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Faith of St. Patrick
What made St. Patrick great wasn’t superior training, intellect, or strategy but an unshakable trust in God. Surrounded by danger, barbarian invasions, and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Guerrilla Country
The future is often painted as dark, unstable, and full of hidden dangers but what if that’s not the real problem? While inflation rises and enemies seem to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Right Way
A once-successful man plunged into gambling, then into theft first from his company, then from his own wife in the vain hope that a “lucky break” would undo…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Principle of Change
An old French proverb says, “The more things change, the more they are the same,” a truth many rediscover whenever election hopes collapse into the familiar…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
I Know People
People often boast, “I know people,” but such confidence usually appears just before they make a serious mistake about someone. The truth is, as Solomon said…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Under the Eye of God
A foreign visitor once marveled that Americans will sit at a red light at 2:00 a.m. with no car in sight an unconscious habit inherited from Puritan forebears…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Under the Eye of God
A foreign visitor once marveled that Americans will sit at a red light at 2:00 a.m. with no car in sight an unconscious habit inherited from Puritan forebears…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Open Door
A grieving friend recently told how she has faced her sorrows by trusting that whenever God closes a door, He also opens another an outlook rooted in the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Trusting God
Charles Spurgeon observed that when a man is down, he has his greatest opportunity to trust God, for a false faith survives only in calm waters, but true faith…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Problems
A man recently sighed, “Problems, problems how I wish I could be rid of them,” and in truth we all share that longing at times. Yet problems never disappear…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Duty
One of history’s recurring problems is the stubborn survival of false ideas, and among the most destructive is the Jeffersonian belief that evil is a product…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Against Spiritual People
One of the great heresies of our age is the notion that “being spiritual” is the same as being Christian, when Scripture never calls us to pursue spirituality…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The First Days of the NEw Creation
A great deal of nonsense is written about the supposed last days of California or the imminent end of the world, as though fear should drive us into the arms…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Price of Salvation
A young prince once demanded that economics be explained to him in ten words, until a courtier answered with nine: “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Shiloh
When Jacob lay dying, he prophesied of the Messiah and called Him Shiloh “He whose right it is” the true King and Lawgiver to whom all authority and all…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Standards
A printer told me that 98 percent of students entering his trade drop out because printing demands an exactness and conscientiousness few young men now…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
What Do You Stand For?
A friend once read a woman a line from my book: “If we love that which is good, we will hate that which is evil.” The woman immediately rejected it, insisting…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Fearfulness
Revelation 21:8 lists the reprobates, and strikingly, the first two are not murderers or the openly vile, but “the fearful and unbelieving” two qualities that…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Is 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Is 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Happiness
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,”…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Humility
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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Personal 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Testing and Purity
Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526–1555), the brilliant Italian scholar raised among nobility and intellectuals, lived a life far harsher than her privileged…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Pruning
William Blake, the brilliant English poet and painter, squandered his greatness because he abandoned biblical faith for the radical dreams of the French…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Can 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Learning 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Fools
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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
As 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
How 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Train 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Who 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Poverty 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Charity 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Irrelevant 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
How 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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Solitude
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…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Letter to a Sleepy Friend
Some people are simply too spiritually sleepy to hear anything, and writing to them is like talking to a drowsy friend who pretends to listen but is nearly…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Unwashed Generation
We all know the frustration of speaking to someone who refuses to hear, like a young man I recently met who raged against his capable, long-suffering parents…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Love of a Lie
A country pastor once caught his dozing congregation’s full attention by telling an obvious lie about a sow that gave birth to green pigs, then rebuked them…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Slander
My daughter once called home distressed because a classmate claimed George Washington had fathered fourteen illegitimate children and died of venereal disease…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Religious Hypochondriacs
Just as some people obsess over their physical health, religious hypochondriacs obsess over their spiritual health constantly taking their “spiritual…