Is "God Loves You" The Whole Story?

Is "God Loves You" The Whole Story?

God's love is not unconditional, and pretending otherwise has gutted the church. Andrea Schwartz sits down with Mark Rushdoony to trace how the modern gospel of unconditional love and unconditional forgiveness collapses into antinomianism, manipulative altar calls, and a Christianity with no kingdom and no game plan. They press into covenant as a relationship on God's terms, the abandoned doctrine of repentance, the prophets' indictment of social injustice as covenant-breaking, and why the church cannot expect blessing while it actively rejects God's law. Theonomy, they argue, is the unavoidable issue. Don't miss this conversation. unconditional love, antinomianism, theonomy, covenant theology, biblical law, repentance, Mark Rushdoony, Chalcedon, Arminianism, Christian worldview, biblical ethics, kingdom of God Is "God Loves You" the Whole Story? Ep. 391 (guest Mark Rushdoony) Andrea G. Schwartz & Martin Selbrede

Money, Inflation and Morality (Economics, Money, and Hope) (Remastered)

This session exposes inflation as a moral disease before it is an economic one, rooted in fiat money, statist power, and a humanistic belief that value can be created by decree rather than by work, thrift, and godly character. When money is severed from real wealth, it becomes a tool of theft, rewarding debtors, punishing the faithful, and financing cultural decay—from foreign Marxist regimes to domestic moral revolutions—while quietly enslaving nations through unpayable loans. Inflation is shown not as an accident or policy mistake, but as institutionalized larceny, driven by bad theology, antinomianism, and the rejection of God’s law-order. Yet the message is not despair: the lecture insists that true recovery comes through recapitalization of people, beginning with repentance, Christian education, disciplined households, and the rebuilding of character-capital that can sustain a godly economy. As statist systems rot under their own madness, a counter-movement is already rising—Christian families, schools, and churches preparing to reclaim the future because the earth, and its wealth, still belong to the Lord. #MoneyAndMorality #InflationIsTheft #FiatMoney #BiblicalEconomics #DebtSlavery #AgainstStatism #ChristianReconstruction #CapitalAndCharacter #LawOfGod #FaithAndFinance #Chalcedon #TheEarthIsTheLords

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 reality of corruption, taxes, and disappointment. No matter the promises, yesterday’s rascals soon look little different from today’s reformers, because changing the names without changing the character of the men in office can never produce a new order. As the old American saying reminds us, “You can’t make a good omelet with rotten eggs” yet we persist in expecting people without faith, integrity, or fear of God to build a righteous society. Solomon warned that trusting an unfaithful man is like relying on a broken tooth or a foot out of joint; it cannot carry you far. What we need is not merely elections but regenerate men, shaped by the Word of God, yet the modern church too often seeks social revolution rather than transformed hearts. No wonder the more things change, the more they stay the same. Only Christ can make all things new, and apart from Him, nothing truly changes.

The Bankruptcy of Rationalism

Rationalism claims to prove God by human reason, but the “god” it produces is only a product of fallen imagination acceptable to man but not the living God of Scripture. By ignoring the Fall and its corruption of the human mind, rationalism assumes reason is neutral and pure, when in fact sin has radically warped man’s thinking. Because fallen man resists a God who judges him, he reshapes truth to fit his reason, making himself the final standard of knowledge. This shifts epistemology from God to man and replaces revelation with human judgment. Rationalism is thus not intellectual strength but evidence of the Fall at work. True knowledge begins with God’s revelation and Christ’s atonement, not autonomous reason. The long philosophical trail of rationalism has led not to certainty, but to confusion and despair revealing its deep intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy.

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, no man fully understands even his own way, for people change some grow stronger under pressure, others falter; some old men mature, while some young men refuse to grow at all. Over time, many we trust will disappoint us, and others will surprise us. We cannot truly say, “I know people.” Only God knows the heart, and only He sees the beginning and the end. Our one certainty is this: we know the Lord, who is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever,” unchanging in His salvation, care, and protection. Friends may fail and foes may assail, but Christ never changes and never disappoints. To know Him is to know security and victory; to know man is, in truth, to know very little.