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- Apr 13, 20265 min
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 contribution to Christ’s Kingdom is little more than a sour complaint. One pastor even lamented that a certain member was such a roadblock that if he joined the devil’s church, hell itself would start to crumble. Instead of manifesting the fruit of the Spirit love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance some Christians offer nothing but criticism and grumbling, though Scripture never lists grunting as a spiritual virtue. And if someone thinks the problem is their pastor, the answer is not more grumbling but more grace: show love, thoughtfulness, and help the shock might kill him, but the change will do you good.
- Apr 12, 20262 min
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 14% earning under $6,000 and only 5% receiving more than $15,000. Meanwhile, truck drivers, electricians, lawyers, and dentists earn many times more, showing plainly that church members demand much from their pastors while valuing them little. Scripture, however, commands the opposite: faithful ministers who labor in Word and doctrine are to be counted worthy of “double honor” that is, double pay (1 Tim. 5:17–18). In biblical language, honor means compensation, and what we pay reveals what we truly esteem. To underpay a godly pastor is to dishonor not only him but Christ Himself. If a man is unfit for ministry, he should leave for the church’s sake but if he is faithful, he should be honored accordingly. The question is unavoidable: does our treatment of Christ’s servants reveal honor or contempt?
- Apr 11, 202658 min
Easy Chair No. 139, February the 12th, 1987 — Faith, Suggestibility, and the Myth of “Brainwashing”
In this episode (Feb. 12, 1987), R.J. Rushdoony dismantles the modern “brainwashing” narrative by drawing on suppressed Korean War research: the most resilient POWs were those with **governing convictions**—a living Christian faith and a clear belief in the free market—who were recognized as natural leaders, resisted manipulation, and even attempted escape, while the faithless majority proved tragically leaderless, anarchic, and easily induced to comply because they believed in nothing. From there he pivots to a sobering cultural warning: the same emptiness makes societies vulnerable to hypnotic suggestion through movies, propaganda, and statist schooling—illustrated even by criminals imitating *The Godfather*—and he argues that humanistic education produces citizens who vote for images instead of reality and tolerate absurdities (like Amtrak stopping trains mid-route for Daylight Saving Time). Rushdoony then surveys major fronts in the battle for the faith in public life: the push to rewrite God-language and subvert biblical revelation, the false “gospels” of technology and political revolution, modernist capture within church institutions and the Marxist distortion of “liberation,” the weaponization of child-abuse accusations to expand state power, and the pride of man exposed in tragedies like the Titanic—closing with a call to recover a faith that acts, serves, and builds dominion, and to tangibly aid persecuted Christians rather than merely sympathize. #EasyChair #Rushdoony #Chalcedon #ChristianWorldview #BrainwashingMyth #GoverningFaith #CulturalDecay #Humanism #Education #Propaganda #ChurchAndState #LiberationTheology #Family #ReligiousFreedom #PersecutedChurch
- Apr 11, 202611 min
Pietism
Pietism began as a reaction against cold formalism, but it quickly became a distortion of the Christian faith. By dismissing doctrine, theology, and systematic teaching as “dead knowledge,” Pietism reduced Christianity to emotional experience and private devotion. Being “born again” was emphasized, yet stripped of clear Biblical meaning, while catechism, preaching the whole counsel of God, and intellectual engagement with Scripture were sidelined. Faith became intuition and feeling rather than truth grounded in God’s revealed Word. The long-term consequences were severe. Pietism weakened the church and strengthened the state, turning Christianity into a private, inward religion while nationalism and statism filled the vacuum. As doctrine faded, enthusiasm was easily redirected from Christ’s Kingdom to earthly powers. Churches became people-centered rather than God-centered, focused on pleasing congregations instead of proclaiming God’s law-word and lordship over all of life. Emotionalism replaced obedience, and “heart religion” was set against “head religion,” as if loving God with the mind were a sin. Ultimately, Pietism proved implicitly antinomian and man-centered. It shifted authority from the triune God to personal experience, fostered censoriousness, and encouraged retreat from culture, law, and responsibility. Biblical Christianity, by contrast, is God-centered, doctrinal, and comprehensive calling believers not merely to feel deeply, but to think rightly, live faithfully, and bring every area of life into obedience to Christ the King.
- Apr 11, 20262 min
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 while claiming they were seeking “divine guidance.” That phrase itself is often a warning sign, for God’s true guidance is not mystical, private, or conveniently suited to our desires; it is written plainly in His Word. When people bypass Scripture to justify what Scripture condemns, they are not communing with God but with their own sinful will and sometimes, as one wise layman observed, with the devil. Whether it is financial treachery or marital betrayal, the pattern is the same: invoke “guidance,” ignore the Commandments, and pretend that darkness is light. The Lord has already told us what He requires; the only real question is whether we will obey. When someone claims divine guidance, ask where in the Bible they found it because if it is not grounded in God’s Word, it is not from God.
- Apr 10, 20265 min
Total Meaning
In “Total Meaning” (Chalcedon Report No. 380), Rushdoony argues that because God created all things, the universe is a realm of total meaning, with no brute or meaningless facts. Meaning does not arise from human interpretation but from God’s sovereign purpose; when man insists on judging meaning autonomously, facts become confused and nihilistic. Original sin is thus epistemological as well as moral man’s desire to determine meaning, law, and truth apart from God. Modern humanism, existentialism, and deconstructionism represent attempts to escape God’s total meaning by retreating into purely personal or subjective meanings, a move Rushdoony calls implicitly suicidal. Because man is made in God’s image, he cannot live consistently with a purely biological or man-centered worldview, and this explains the modern preference for sermons about man rather than God. A universe of total meaning demands total allegiance: faith cannot be partial or compartmentalized. Only wholehearted love for God and obedient service under His Word restores coherence, purpose, and strength to both personal faith and the church.
- Apr 10, 20262 min
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 paneled houses while His house lies in neglect (Hag. 1:2–9). The idea that God deserves less than we give ourselves is not piety it is sin. Yet this argument, born from Enlightenment unbelief and perfected by Marxists, always follows the same path: first the church does not need a building; then the farmer does not need his land; then the family does not need its home, its kitchen, its privacy. What begins as an attack on God’s house ends as an assault on your own. Meanwhile, states that preach “simplicity” for believers build monuments to themselves with confiscated wealth. The truth is simple: the God who gives us all things deserves our best, not our leftovers. And when men resent giving Him honor, the problem is not architecture it is their hearts.
- Apr 10, 202624 min
The Generation with Nothing Left to Lose
In Judges 6:25–27, God gives Gideon his first mission, and it is not what anyone expected. Instead of marching against the Midianites, God sends him to tear down the altar of Baal in his own father's house. Nathan unpacks why God always starts reformation at home, dealing with the root before the fruit. He explores the striking parallels between Baal imagery and modern entertainment, the difference between foolish recklessness and wise courage, and why it is always the generation with nothing left to lose that God raises up to tear down the altars. Before you tear down, build. Tags: Judges 6, Gideon, Baal, Asherah, reformation, idolatry, courage, dominion, God's World God's Way, biblical manhood, postmillennialism, Christian reconstruction
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