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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
Never Alone
Hebrews 12 reminds us that God’s chastening is not optional it is the necessary proof that we are His sons and daughters. Though His discipline is often…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Sin and Prayer
A three-year-old’s innocent prayer “I thank Thee, Lord, for all my sins!” was quickly corrected, yet her mistake mirrors the attitude of many adults who seem…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Fools and Sin
A child once suggested solving a drought by melting ice cubes a harmless example of folly, yet Scripture shows folly has a far deeper root: “Fools make a mock…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Love
Scientism has led many people to think love can be measured in percentages 20 percent to the job, 20 percent to the spouse, 20 percent to the children but…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Priorities
Proverbs teaches that we become like the company we keep and the company we keep is ultimately chosen by the cravings of our hearts. Many Christians claim to…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Where Your Treasure Is
Most people assume Jesus said our treasure follows our heart but He said the exact opposite: your heart will follow your treasure. Whatever you invest in your…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Unblemished Sacrifice
Scripture repeatedly insists that God deserves our best never the leftover, the blemished, or the convenient. Even among clean animals, Israel could not…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Sacrifices for Whom
We constantly hear calls for “sacrifice” today—but seldom the more important question: sacrifice for whom? David gives us the standard. When three of his…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The King in Our Lives
Paul’s command in Romans 6:12—“Let not sin reign in your mortal body”—only makes sense in light of the preceding verse, which calls us to be alive unto God…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Name of the Lord
Genesis 4:26 tells us that after Seth named his son Enos—meaning “mortal”—“then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.” As scholar Cassuto noted, the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Coronation
In the early church, baptism was understood not merely as cleansing but as coronation. Borrowing imagery from the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles—where crowns and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Cutting Straight
Paul commands Timothy to “rightly divide”—literally, cut straight—the word of truth, meaning Scripture must be delivered plainly, directly, and without bending…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Changing Things
Before the days of Columbus and Luther, Europe was collapsing into moral and social anarchy. With no respected authority in church or state, every city—and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Out of Step
Paul’s command in 1 Thessalonians 5:14 to “warn them that are unruly” refers to those out of step—not with us, not with the church, but with Jesus Christ…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Follow the Crowd?
A church advertisement urging people to “Follow the crowd” reveals how deeply modern Christians have adopted pagan assumptions about majorities. Scripture…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Christian Way
Christianity brought a moral revolution the ancient world could scarcely imagine. In pagan thought, only the strong were close to the gods, pity was a…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Truth
When Jesus declares, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” He reveals that truth is not an abstract idea or a set of facts—it is God Himself. Whenever…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Christ the Head
Paul’s declaration in Colossians 2:10—“Ye are complete in him”—teaches that true human fulfillment is impossible apart from Jesus Christ, the true and last…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Christmas
Christmas is a season of profound joy because it celebrates the astonishing truth that God became man to redeem us. As St. Ephrem the Syrian wrote, in the cold…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Gold Standard
Isaiah condemned Judah for two telling signs of moral collapse: their silver had become dross and their wine was diluted—fraud in both money and daily life…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Relevance
The French Revolution exposes less the strength of revolutionary forces and more the weakness and moral collapse of the royalists and the church. As…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Contagion of Sin
In Haggai 2, God teaches a striking truth: holiness is not contagious, but sin is. A clean towel cannot purify dirty hands—rather, the dirt spreads. Judah…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Powerless Men
The Roman satirist Juvenal mocked religion as naïve “guff,” yet he spent his career lamenting Rome’s moral collapse—never realizing that the decay he despised…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Do We Need More Laws?
When Black Panthers marched into the California assembly in 1967, the spectacle accomplished little for them—but it handed legislators the excuse they needed…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Law and Order
Modern society talks endlessly about “law and order,” yet we increasingly separate the two—and the result is tyranny. Order without true, God-given law is the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
God and Our Peace
The Puritans accomplished astonishing things not because of numbers, but because of conviction—men like Richard Rogers, who when accused of being “too…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Disinheritance
Psalm 33:12 declares that the nation whose God is the Lord is blessed—but the implication is equally clear: the nation that rejects Him is disinherited…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Trivializing God
An old fable tells of a poor, frozen peddler in Warsaw whom the angels begged God to bless—so God brought the man to Heaven and offered him anything. But the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
A Rattlesnake's Kisses
A shocking courtroom scene reveals the lengths to which godless authorities will go to control Christian institutions—even to the point of spying on church…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Subsidizing Evil
Today, in the name of “Christian charity,” we’re increasingly asked to subsidize evil—penalizing the righteous to reward the lazy, the lawless, and the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Folly on the Bench
When a Miami judge sentenced a woman who slit her husband’s throat—not to prison—but to five years of teaching Sunday school, it revealed just how deeply our…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Thieves Paradise
Imagine designing a society tailor-made for thieves—a world where stealing is respectable, legal, and even blessed by economists, educators, and clergymen…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Living God
In the fury of a North Atlantic storm, a World War II sailor whispered a truth our age forgets: “God is no buttercup.” Too often we remake God into a soft…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Work and Progress
Woodrow Wilson once declared that automobiles would ruin America and make socialism inevitable—yet history proved him spectacularly wrong. While he feared cars…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Insulting Prayer
Across churches today, new prayers are being introduced that sound less like repentance and more like revolutionary manifestos—asking the godly to seek…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Men of Faith
Hebrews 11 celebrates men of faith who conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and overcame impossible odds—yet the same heroes who shut the mouths of lions…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Insulting Prayer
Across churches today, new prayers are being introduced that sound less like repentance and more like revolutionary manifestos—asking the godly to seek…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Pleasing Men Not by Praise but by Prayer
In an age obsessed with pleasing people, Jesus reminds us that even He and John the Baptist could not satisfy the demands of men—and neither will we, unless we…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Resurrection
If Christ did not rise bodily from the dead, St. Paul says all preaching is empty—but because He did rise, the power of sin and death is shattered, and victory…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Music
In every generation, people lament the power of bad music—but complaining never changed a culture. Scripture shows us that music is meant to be a vital…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Real Wealth
What if the greatest thief of your joy isn’t hardship, but your imagination? In this episode, we explore how countless people trade the real blessings God has…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
John Knox and His Mother-in-Law
This episode highlights a lesser-known side of John Knox, the great Scottish Reformer, showing that the strength that made him fearless—even as a galley…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Spirit and Life
This episode recounts the remarkable progress of a boy with a low tested IQ who nevertheless achieved at or above grade level after enrolling in a thoroughly…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Priority
This episode stresses that the first commandment—“Thou shalt have no other gods before me”—requires God to be our supreme priority, governing every part of…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Our Father
This episode explains that when Jesus teaches us to address God as “Our Father,” we must understand fatherhood biblically, not according to modern sentimental…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
God with Us
This episode reflects on the meaning of Christ’s title Immanuel—“God with us”—as foretold in Isaiah 7:14 and affirmed in Matthew 1:23. Humanity rebelled…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
S-x Education
This episode argues that Christians are not opposed to sex education itself but to the standards and worldview underlying much modern sex education, which is…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Following the Leader
This episode reflects on The Lonely Crowd’s claim that Americans have shifted from an inner-directed, Scripture-formed character to an “other-directed” one…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Calling Good Evil
This episode recounts a young mother being ordered to stop modestly breastfeeding her baby at a public skating rink—an act once considered normal and…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Thou Shalt Not Covet
This episode recounts how a religious fanatic smashed a friend’s fine dishes, claiming they violated the tenth commandment, and uses the incident to show how…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
How to Be a Socialist Without Knowing it
This episode argues that the most successful modern revolution is not violent but ideological: the widespread adoption of socialist thinking, especially…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Blindness by Choice
When a repeatedly arrested, probation-bound assemblyman is easily renominated, it reveals not merely the corruption of leaders but the deeper corruption of the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Pleasures of Hatred
This episode observes that hatred must contain a kind of twisted pleasure, since so many people indulge in it—resenting others for their wealth, appearance…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Happiness
This episode explains that the biblical word “blessed” means “very happy,” yet Christ’s Beatitudes redefine happiness in ways that contradict our natural…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
The Birth of Our Lord
This episode describes Christ’s birth as the greatest invasion in history—God the Son entering the world to reclaim it as His Father’s Kingdom. While modern…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Keep Yourself in the Boat
This episode confronts worry as a popular yet often unacknowledged sin, because anxiety reflects distrust in God’s promise to work all things for good for His…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Problems
This episode identifies three subtle but pervasive problems people create for themselves. First—and most destructive—is self-pity, which makes the self the…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Self-Sufficiency
This episode explains that the common English rendering of “contentment” in 1 Timothy 6:6–8 can mislead modern readers, since the Greek word autarkeia actually…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Thou Shalt Not Steal
This episode argues that while Christians profess belief in the commandment “Thou shalt not steal,” they frequently violate it through coercion, deception, or…
- A Word in Season: Messages by R.J. Rushdoony on the Faith for All of Life
Covetousness
This episode highlights Paul’s strong and often overlooked condemnation of covetousness, which he ranks alongside sexual immorality, idolatry, theft, and…