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  1. 22H AGO

    The Future of Christianity (Remastered)

    Rushdoony argues that Christian reconstruction rests on God’s promise of victory: the meek shall inherit the earth. Scripture consistently teaches that God’s kingdom advances in history, fulfilled in Christ the true lawgiver and judge who inaugurates the new creation through His resurrection. Regenerated believers are therefore called to bring every area of life into obedience to Christ the King. He shows that the early church lived this out long before it had buildings or legal status: establishing courts, schools, charity, hospitality, hospitals, and disciplined welfare rooted in work and responsibility. In doing so, the church functioned as a government under God, an “empire within the empire,” which Rome rightly feared. This comprehensive obedience flowed from biblical law, not political ambition. The church’s later loss of influence, he contends, came from corrupt theology especially Greek dualism and spiritualization which despised history, law, and the material world. This produced an irrelevant church, retreating from culture and society. Christian reconstruction, grounded in creation and providence, restores the Bible as God’s governing Word for all of life. Because Christ is Lord of all creation, believers are not called to defeat but to victory through faith and obedience to every word of God.

    45 min

  2. 5D AGO

    Condition of Christianity (Remastered)

    Rushdoony argues that the book of Acts shows persecution is inevitable wherever Christianity becomes effective. The real issue is always lordship by what power and by what name things are done. The early church was not persecuted for immorality or disorder, but because it manifested God’s power outside state control, making Christ a rival to Caesar. Any ruling order that sees itself as man’s savior will react with hostility to a gospel that offers salvation apart from the state. Tracing Acts, he shows how rulers and even religious leaders resisted the apostles because fallen man wants to define law and morality for himself. Rome treated the church as a rival government, responding first with bans and licensing, later with state control of the church, and eventually with “toleration” that allows Christianity only if it stays irrelevant. When relevance returns, persecution follows through defamation, lawsuits, and legal pressure. Paul’s sermon in Acts 17 provides the answer: God is Creator and sovereign, nations exist by His decree, and Christ’s resurrection guarantees judgment. That certainty provokes rage in the ungodly. Rushdoony concludes that persecution is not surprising; lukewarm faith is. Empires pass away, but Christ endures and the church must choose obedience under Christ rather than safety under Caesar.

    44 min

  3. FEB 5

    Who Shall Be Lord? - Challenge of the Book of Acts (Remastered)

    Rushdoony argues that the future of society rises or falls with the family. Scripture places the family not the church or the state at the center of social power, entrusting it with education, charity, inheritance, property, and the training of children. When these responsibilities shift to the state, freedom declines and statism grows. By contrast, when families reclaim these callings through Christian schooling, mutual care, and faithful stewardship (especially through the tithe), society is renewed from the ground up. He insists the family must be understood biblically, not through humanistic or evolutionary categories. Humanist thought assumes conflict, autonomy, and self-fulfillment, turning marriage into bondage and freedom into indulgence. Scripture teaches the opposite: true freedom is found in responsibility under God, where husband and wife are “heirs together of the grace of life.” The family is not biological accident or social convenience, but a God-ordained religious institution reflecting Christ and the Church.The Reformation proved that family reform reshapes civilization altering education, economics, charity, and even the church itself. Today’s revival of homeschooling and Christian family life signals real hope, even as secular families collapse under statism and moral decay. The call is not political but covenantal: re-Christianize the family, live out God’s law in daily life, and trust that faithful households small though they seem are God’s chosen instruments for commanding the future.

    34 min

  4. FEB 3

    Dynamic Christian Hospitality and Strangers (Remastered)

    Biblical law places the family at the center of society because God entrusts it with decisive powers: children (the future), property, inheritance, education, and welfare. When these are taken over by the state, society weakens. True renewal comes as families reclaim these responsibilities through Christian education, care for their own, and faithful stewardship. Rushdoony argues that this reclamation fails unless families are intellectually and spiritually grounded. Worldviews built on chance, evolution, or inevitable conflict make struggle metaphysical and unavoidable turning marriage, society, and economics into battlegrounds that require state control. By contrast, creationism affirms God’s sovereign order, so conflict is moral, not inevitable, and can be governed by God’s law. The family is therefore not merely biological or social but a religious institution, created to serve God’s kingdom. Husband and wife are “heirs together of the grace of life,” called to harmony and obedience. The future of society depends not on politics but on re-Christianizing the family, restoring its God-given authority, and living out covenant faithfulness.

    27 min

  5. JAN 29

    The Future of the Family (Christian Reconstruction and the Future)

    Rushdoony argues that only the Christian family has a future because it alone lives by God’s law rather than statist planning, making the family—not church or state—the primary engine of social renewal through its biblical duties of provision, education, charity, inheritance, discipline, and dominion; drawing from Scripture and history, he insists that neglect of family law hollows out faith, fuels statism, and erodes freedom, while practices like family-based care, homeschooling, tithing, and mutual responsibility reclaim power from the state and restore liberty under God; rejecting humanistic categories that redefine freedom as autonomy, he presents marriage and family as God-ordained spheres of responsibility that produce true freedom, arguing that the Reformation’s real revolution was family reform and that today’s revival of Christian households—small, faithful, and God-centered—is the decisive force that will shape the future and resist the culture of death. #ChristianFamily #BiblicalLaw #DominionMandate #FamilyGovernment #Homeschool #ChristianEducation #Tithing #AntiStatism #Rushdoony #Reformation #BiblicalWorldview #KingdomOfGod

    36 min

  6. JAN 27

    Biblical Importance of an Empowered Family (Christian Reconstruction and the Future)

    Rushdoony contends that biblical law makes the family the primary power-center of society—entrusted by God with children, property, inheritance, education, and welfare—and that modern statism systematically attacks and replaces these jurisdictions by denying creation, order, and harmony in favor of evolutionary conflict and centralized control; he argues that only belief in the sovereign Creator, predestination, and a God-ordained harmony of interests can empower families to function as history’s strongest social force, whereas Darwinism, Enlightenment humanism, and socialist planning inevitably produce anti-family ideologies, gender conflict, nihilism, and tyranny, making the re-Christianization of the family—not politics—the true key to reclaiming the future. #BiblicalLaw #FamilyGovernment #Theonomy #ChristianWorldview #Creationism #Dominion #Statism #Rushdoony #ChristianFamily #Education #Homeschool #KingdomOfGod

    38 min

  7. JAN 22

    Resurrection, Communion, and the Family (Christian Reconstruction and the Future)

    Rushdoony argues that the removal of the Ten Commandments from public schools exposed a basic truth: all law is religious. While the courts rejected biblical law for fear students might obey it, schools freely promote Humanism as a state religion. He says decades of educational “reform” have failed because statist education is built on false premises; pouring in more money only deepens the collapse. Since man is made in God’s image, only Christian education can truly succeed. He calls for Christian reconstruction beginning with individuals and families reclaiming God-given responsibilities—education, welfare, property, inheritance, and child-training—using the tithe to fund Christian institutions rather than compromise. Through real examples (church-run schools, rescue missions, homeschooling families, community care for the needy), he shows how grassroots Christian obedience outperforms state systems. As believers obey God, power naturally shifts from the state back to the people under Christ, provoking resistance—but he ends confident that faithful action will prevail: “trust and obey,” for Christ overcomes the world.

    1h 2m

  8. JAN 20

    Strategy for Christian Reconstruction (Christian Reconstruction and the Future)

    Rushdoony argues that only the Christian family has a future because it alone lives by God’s law rather than statist planning, making the family—not church or state—the primary engine of social renewal through its biblical duties of provision, education, charity, inheritance, discipline, and dominion; drawing from Scripture and history, he insists that neglect of family law hollows out faith, fuels statism, and erodes freedom, while practices like family-based care, homeschooling, tithing, and mutual responsibility reclaim power from the state and restore liberty under God; rejecting humanistic categories that redefine freedom as autonomy, he presents marriage and family as God-ordained spheres of responsibility that produce true freedom, arguing that the Reformation’s real revolution was family reform and that today’s revival of Christian households—small, faithful, and God-centered—is the decisive force that will shape the future and resist the culture of death. #ChristianFamily #BiblicalLaw #DominionMandate #FamilyGovernment #Homeschool #ChristianEducation #Tithing #AntiStatism #Rushdoony #Reformation #BiblicalWorldview #KingdomOfGod

    28 min
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