Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Thomas Manton on Faithful Parenting/Covenant Education and Infants Dying in Infancy
“Here is encouragement to the neglected duty of education. Manytimes we neglect our little children, think we can do no good upon them.Oh, water the seed of grace, for aught you know they may be sanctifiedfrom the womb. It is said of John the Baptist, Luke 1:15, ‘He shall be filledwith the Holy Ghost from…
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Thomas Manton on Infant Faith and Infant Salvation
If without faith it be impossible to please God, then childrenmust have some kind of faith, else they can never be accepted to life. Iknow that the apostle doth principally speak of adult or grown persons,men of age, such as come to God, and seek him: but though, however, therule is general, there is no…
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Sermon Transcript: September 24, 2017 Reformation 500 Series — The Absolute Sovereignty of God (Romans 9:1-33)
An AI-produced transcript of my 9/24/17 sermon: 500 years ago, this October, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. And so this is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation this year. It’s an event in history truly worth celebrating. Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer,…
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Dabney and Tesla Predicted the World You Live In 100+ Years Ago
A feature of wisdom is foresight — you can connect dots, gauge trajectories, and see where ideas will lead over time. Here are a couple of examples of men who saw where feminism would lead 100+ years ahead of our day. First, Southern Presbyterian theologian R. L. Dabney, who deal with feminism in its nascent…
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March ’26 X Posts: Liberalism, Empathy, War with Iran, Parenting, Marriage, Politics, Israel, Foreign Policy, Etc.
If you really care for the poor and marginalized — let me rephrase that — if you really empathize with the poor and marginalized — in America, you will be in favor of closed borders and deportations because unlimited immigration hurts poor Americans the most. — Sometimes war is the answer to some of the…
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Antinomianism and Legalism
This is an old Reformation Day X post: A post for Reformation Day: We often think there are two ways to get the gospel wrong: there are legalists who try to earn God’s favor, and antinomians who presume on God’s favor. Legalists try too hard, antinomians are too lax. Legalists are slaves to the law,…
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Liberalism vs Your Belly Button
The best argument against modern liberalism? Your belly button. Why? You belly button is a reminder that you began life connected to others. You are not a sovereign, autonomous, detached individual. Your very existence came in and through community. To be is to be related. You are not a free floating atom. You are a…
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Jesus the Carpenter
“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?” (Mark 6:3) It makes sense Jesus was a carpenter (or construction worker or craftsman) before beginning his public ministry. As the eternal Word, Jesus is the one through whom the world was made as a house for God. As the incarnate Word, he made houses for…
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Dispensationalism, Christendom, and Israel
[The following post is not intended as commentary on the current military operation in Iran. I will comment on that later. This is a theological point I’ve been thinking about for a while.] One of the things that I believe attracts modern Dispensationalists/evangelicals to the nation-state of Israel is not just their (flawed) exegesis and…
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Some Favorite “Got a Minute?” Podcasts w/Larson Hicks
The first podcast we did on wisdom from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: On Jordan Petersen and masculinity: On servant leadership: Sphere sovereignty and the idolatry of the family: Empathy: What does baptism accomplish? Why we need more Christian billionaires: Christian nationalism: Natural law, sex, and aesthetics: It’s all in Genesis 3: Does church membership matter: FLGBTQ+:…
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