Duty

How the Christian Will Reconquer Through Economics: The Problem and the Very Great Hope (Economics, Money, and Hope) (Remastered)

This opening session argues that economic collapse is not accidental but moral, the predictable fruit of a statist, fiat-driven world that has abandoned God’s created order. Using Christ’s parable of the steward, the teaching confronts Christian other-worldliness and insists that faithful stewardship of money is a spiritual requirement, not a worldly distraction. Humanistic economics treats reality as something man can remake by decree—fiat money, fiat law, fiat planning—but Scripture declares a law-governed universe where debt enslaves, inflation punishes thrift, and judgment is built into disobedience itself. The modern debt mountain—personal, corporate, and governmental—is portrayed as borrowing against a future that is now running out, making inflation the false “salvation” of a bankrupt order. Yet this crisis is framed as a salvation-judgment: God clearing the ground for reconstruction. The Christian hope is not political tinkering but recapitalization—material, moral, and spiritual—through hard money, thrift, work, character, and obedience to God’s law, laying the foundation for a renewed Christian social order. #BiblicalEconomics #ChristianReconstruction #DebtAndJudgment #AgainstFiatMoney #Stewardship #GodsLawOrder #EconomicCrisis #HardMoney #ThriftAndWork #FaithAndEconomics #Chalcedon #HopeThroughObedience

The Lord Directeth

As we look back on our lives, we often see how little of it unfolded according to our own plans, and this can trouble us unless we grasp the truth Solomon expressed: “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps” (Prov. 16:9). We are responsible for our choices and accountable for our actions, yet we are not omnipotent, and countless forces lie beyond our control, making self-directed planning an invitation to frustration. Scripture reminds us that while we may devise plans, only God governs the course of our lives, and this is not a cause for fear but for confidence. When our plans fail, it is not because life lacks purpose, but because God’s wiser and better purpose prevails, ordering even disappointment for our good. For those who walk by faith in Christ, no defeat is final and no detour is meaningless, because the Lord’s direction is sure, loving, and infallible, even when the road is dark.

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; they simply change shape, following us through childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age, and appearing in our homes, work, churches, nation, and even our own hearts. They belong to life in a fallen world, but even before the Fall Adam faced the challenges of cultivating Eden and the daily test of obedience before the forbidden tree. To solve one problem is merely to create the conditions for the next, for problems are both the result of sin and the means of growth. Because this is God’s world, every problem has an answer, and each answer moves us on to new testing until we finally enter God’s eternal Kingdom. Problems, then, are opportunities sent by God occasions to grow, to obey, and to pursue our calling.

Abominations

In “Abominations”, Rushdoony explains that Scripture’s strong language about sin reflects God’s holiness and justice, not vulgarity or excess, and that the biblical term abomination consistently denotes what God finds utterly abhorrent because it is idolatrous, lawless, and spiritually corrupt. Drawing on Hebrew and Greek usage, he shows that abominations are actions and attitudes that despise God’s law while often masquerading as faith—ranging from sexual immorality and idolatry to dishonest worship, lying, and false weights—revealing the unity of moral, spiritual, and physical corruption. What God calls an abomination is not culturally relative or emotionally offensive but objectively repulsive to Him, marked by filth, stench, and rebellion, and barred from His kingdom. Because God does not change, what He abhors must also be abhorrent to His people; therefore, encountering this word in Scripture is a warning that demands clear obedience, moral clarity, and submission to God’s law rather than accommodation to cultural standards.

Are We Suffering From a New Bigotry?

This passage argues that a new form of bigotry is emerging in the foster-care system, where devout Christians though responsible and moral are being rejected as foster parents. The author cites a tragic case in Pomona, California, where a child was sexually abused and killed in foster care, suggesting that prejudice against Christian foster parents may contribute to such failures. The broader concern is that this humanistic bias against a morally upright segment of society undermines the welfare system and endangers children, reflecting an insidious form of societal bigotry. #FosterCare #ReligiousBigotry #ChildSafety #MoralDiscrimination #HumanisticBias