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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
Hypocrites
The word hypocrite comes from the Greek term for an actor one who wore a mask and played a part and the meaning has not changed: a hypocrite pretends to be…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Is Chastity Obselete
Articles claiming we are in a “new sexual revolution” forget a simple truth: none of this is new. Every generation of sinners treats immorality as a fresh…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Fence Breakers
Many people today cry out for justice when they ought to plead for mercy. They focus on wrongs done to them while ignoring the wrongs done by them. As the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Envy
A rookie basketball player earning $104,000 a year is praised, and entertainers making hundreds of thousands are admired. Yet let a small farmer earn…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Test of Man
Proverbs 27:21 teaches that “a man is tested by what he praises.” One man recently praised hippies as society’s most intelligent class, universities for…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Moral Standards
Almost daily someone repeats the claim that abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and similar sins are “perfectly all right,” and that Christians have no right…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Tolerance and Intolerance
A friend was once troubled when accused of “intolerance” for opposing sexual sins until he realized that his accuser was fiercely intolerant as well, only…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Salvation by Nagging
My barber told me of his first trip back to Italy after becoming an American citizen: when a state official tried to order him around as though he were still a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Barking
A Russian proverb says, “A dog is wiser than a woman: he won’t bark at his master,” a humorous reminder that even a dog knows not to attack the one who cares…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
False Cures
It is possible to cure a headache by blowing out your brains, but no sane man would recommend such a remedy; likewise, a salve may soothe the pain of cancer…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Faith in Injustice
Modern man has become an injustice collector, eagerly tallying every wrong in the world in order to justify himself. To such people, life is a rigged game a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Contagion
Scripture teaches that while sickness and evil are contagious, holiness is not Haggai’s warning makes clear that impurity spreads easily, but righteousness…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
How to Pollute Other People
A man who spends years on a project only to watch another stumble onto the solution can easily become bitter but Scripture warns that bitterness is far more…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Right to Sin
There is no such thing as a right to sin, yet many people live as though their good works entitle them to an occasional moral holiday. A church officer who…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Excuses
Scripture makes unmistakably clear that God accepts no excuses. In Genesis 3:9–19, Adam’s and Eve’s attempts to shift blame only deepen their guilt, revealing…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Entering Life
Proverbs 30:20 gives a penetrating insight into sin: “Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Vision
A modern young woman, caught in bed with her lover, became furious when her husband discovered the affair, beat the adulterer, and threw him out; she called…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
True Blindness
Truly blind men are those who trust only what they see and therefore see nothing. They look at the world’s overwhelming order and design yet insist it is…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Proud Sins
One of the evidences of our fallen nature is how deeply pride infects our sins: women may deny snoring, parishioners deny stinginess, and even criminals boast…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Self-Righteousness
A striking feature of our age is the rise of pure self-righteousness the kind seen in a young wife who abandoned her family yet indignantly cried, “How can he…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Ultimate Sin
The ultimate sin, Scripture teaches, is the desire to reform others according to our own ideas a sinful attempt to play god by reshaping people to suit…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Grunters in the Pew
Spurgeon once said that many church members are like a neighbor’s pigs “all grunt and no bacon” and sadly the description fits far too many: believers whose…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Grunters in the Pew
Spurgeon once said that many church members are like a neighbor’s pigs “all grunt and no bacon” and sadly the description fits far too many: believers whose…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Pastors
A recent study has revealed a shameful truth about the American church: the average pastor earns just $10,348 a year well below the federal poverty line with…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Biblical Guidance
At a recent meeting I witnessed something chilling: men who profess Christ calmly violated a verbal contract and effectively stole half a million dollars all…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Religious Buildings
A familiar complaint insists that spending money on church buildings is wasteful even sinful. But Scripture says the opposite: God rebukes those who live in…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Christmas
Isaiah foretold a child whose birth would rearrange history: the Son given, the King whose government rests on His shoulder and whose peace will never stop…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Words
An old saying tells us that if we talk, people will know we’re fools but if we keep silent, they may mistake us for wise. The truth is, most of us talk far too…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Advice
We’ve all learned the hard way that many people who ask for advice don’t actually want counsel they want confirmation. They’ve already chosen their path, and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Nagging
Aesop once told of a crow who envied the beauty of a swan and tried to change its habits only to discover that habits cannot change nature. That old fable…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Promise of Life
A 1966 scandal in England revealed how far a society can fall when authority forgets its purpose: a ten-year-old girl was seized from her mother and placed in…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Fear of Death
Andre Gide once wrote of a man who fell into deep despair at the thought of buying new shoes not because of the cost, but because their wear reminded him of…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
White Hairs
While traveling recently, I met a man in his fifties who looked barely thirty-five pleasant, sincere, but strikingly immature. A lifetime without work had…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Gratitude
Scripture commands gratitude, not as a polite gesture but as a defining mark of the redeemed. Psalm 100 tells us to “be thankful unto him,” while Paul says the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Learning Patience
James 1:2–4 is no one’s favorite memory verse, yet it tells us exactly how God grows us: by testing our faith. If we bristle at hardship, God sends more not to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Restless Heart
We all know what it’s like to do something intuitively like finding the right key in the dark until we think about it and suddenly can’t. Scripture says…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Sleep
Most of us breathe and sleep without effort unless something deeper is wrong. Scripture tells us that chronic sleeplessness is often not a medical issue but a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
All Men Have Not Faith
When Paul asked the Thessalonian believers to pray for him, his request was strikingly unlike the typical prayer lists we hear today. He urged them to pray…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Tolerance
When I moved into a large city, every street noise kept me awake, but within a year I heard none of them; when I later moved to the mountains, the coyotes…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
On Being a Sourpuss
Asaph confesses in Psalm 73 that when he brooded over the prosperity of the wicked and the injustices around him, his heart “became sour,” and in Moffatt’s…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Shortest Verse
Many of us remember the Sunday school boys who tried to meet the Scripture-memory requirement by quoting the shortest verse in the Bible “Jesus wept” hoping to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Yea, Hath God Said?
Some of the church’s most troubling people are not the openly rebellious but the selectively devout those who attend faithfully and read Scripture regularly…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Problems
Most of what consumes our political and personal energy today isn’t real problems at all but non-problems impossibilities created by human imagination to avoid…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Deliverance from Egypt
When God sent Moses to demand Israel’s release, He already knew Pharaoh would refuse yet He ordained the confrontation to accomplish two crucial purposes…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Contentment
Insatiability never being satisfied with income, possessions, relationships, or circumstances is one of the most pervasive but least acknowledged sins of our…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Contrition
Contrition true, painful sorrow for sin is rarely spoken of today, yet Scripture places immense weight on it. The word comes from a root meaning “to bruise” or…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Growth
The Psalmist compares the godly to “a tree planted by rivers of water,” and the image is deliberate: living trees never stop growing. The moment they cease to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Blindness vs. Growth
Some people repeat the same sins and blunders endlessly, even after receiving clear counsel, because as Solomon says “the way of the wicked is as darkness…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Hearing God
Many devout Christians faithfully attend church and pray, yet have a selective hearing problem when it comes to God’s Word. Like the boy who “didn’t hear” his…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Who's There?
Peter writes to believers who had once lived in drunkenness, wastefulness, idolatry, and immorality but whose sudden transformation shocked their neighbors…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Be Yourself
Learning gives a man more material to become either wise or foolish and because foolishness is native to our fallen hearts, it is far easier to be a fool…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
God with Us
When the angel told Joseph to name Mary’s child Jesus “Savior” he also revealed that this birth fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecy of Emmanuel, “God with us.”…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Driver's Seat
Riding with a reckless driver makes us tense, nervous, and desperate to seize the wheel but many of us treat God the same way. Though Scripture makes clear…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Worry and Unbelief
Scripture flatly forbids worry, calling it both foolish and sinful. Jesus warns against it, and Peter commands us to cast all our cares on the Lord, because…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Without God, Without Hope
Doctors increasingly report patients with no physical illness only a crushing sense that they have “nothing to live for.” Wealth, travel, and social status…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Wisdom as Foresight
Scripture teaches that true wisdom is not merely learning but seeing seeing connections, consequences, timing, and judgment. A wise person looks ahead…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Faithful Saying
In Titus 3, Paul offers what he calls a “faithful saying” a core statement of the Christian faith and it is strikingly practical. Believers are to obey lawful…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Way to Justice
Scripture uses the word righteousness to mean justice, revealing that a truly righteous people are those made just by God and committed to doing justice. Jesus…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Praising the Wicked
Proverbs teaches that when people abandon God’s law, they unintentionally praise the wicked they vindicate evil by sharing its contempt for God’s Word…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Loneliness
There is a world of difference between being alone and being lonely. Solitude can be a gift our Lord Himself sought it out in prayer but loneliness can strike…