Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Kingdom Work Conference — Productive Servants: Multiplying Talents, Multiplying Dominion
On August 1, 2026, TPC hosted a mini-conference for men on work. All the talks and panel discussions were excellent. Here is the audio and a transcription of my talk below. This has been a great conference. Thank you, Malcolm, for getting this together. It’s been really helpful. Thanks to our other speakers. The panels…
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July 2026 – Notes and Miscellanies: Agency, Failure, Righteous Deception, Genesis 2-3 and Effeminacy, Parental Discipline, Hitler/Nazism, Churchill on Bolshevism, Affordability Crisis, Trauma, Anxiety, Cultural Transformation/Measures of the Mission, Ordered Liberty/Bounded Existence, Socialism, Alvin York, Christendom and Forced Conversions, Anarcho-Tyranny, Love for Enemies, Machiavelli, Nixon/China, George Washington, Marxism, Religious Liberty, Locke, The Jews, Birth Rates, Kuyperianism, 1 Peter 3:1-7, Dispensationalism, Romans 11, Anti-Whiteness, Rousseau, Christian Nationalism, Immigration, Slavery, White Knights, Classical Liberalism, Headcoverings, America’s Christian Founding/America at 250, Patriarchy, Civil War/Slavery
Our culture is waging a war on agency. The ultimate conspiracy is that the cultural elites want us to think nothing we do matters because everything is a conspiracy. Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Government….you can’t possibly fight all the “bigs” so why bother? You’re just a pawn in their game so give up and…
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A Compact Roadmap of American History, Part 3
Where do we go from here? Depending on one’s perspective, the American story can plausibly be interpreted in different ways. Looked at from past to present, we can see a great deal of continuity from medieval Christendom and the Reformation to America’s founding. The War for Independence, after all, was largely led by the “black…
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A Compact Roadmap of American History, Part 2
Civic Religion: American or Christian? We have already traced out the basic contours of the shift in America from an ecclesiocentric, theocratic social order to a secular one. Building on Locke and Hobbes, the Enlightenment accomplished an astonishing coup of Christendom. That victory for the secularists was only possible because Christians were too busy fighting…
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A Compact Roadmap of American History, Part 1
[This series was written in the early 2000s when I was an assistant pastor at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, LA. I would say some things differently now, but the gist of these essays is as relevant today as when I wrote them over two decades ago. This is my attempt to show the…
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“Building on the Promises” Campaign (so far)
Our church began a building/school campaign last October. Fund raising for the new sanctuary/classroom building has gone well and Trinity Classical Academy starts classes in just over three weeks. Here’s a quick run down of resources on the campaign thus far: Sermons: October 19, 2025 Building on the Promises (Part 1) — From Here to…
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Who is the God of the Declaration of Independence?
In my recent “America at 250” sermon, I made the case that America had a Christian founding. This does not mean everyone was a Christian obviously, nor does it mean that our system of government or culture were without any flaws. But the people, the culture, and the institutions that defined America from the colonial…
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Luther and Nominalism
[There has been some online discussion of Luther and nominalism in the aftermath of Jay Dyer’s interview on Tucker Carlson, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-VqMQHz54k. This is a response.] Luther and Nominalism: A Complicated Relationship The claim that Martin Luther was a philosophical nominalist carries a surface plausibility, rooted primarily in his doctrine of justification by faith alone.…
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The Jews and the Corruption of the West
Dennis Prager, himself a Jew, points out that virtually all -isms, except Nazism, were founded or led disproportionately by Jews: Marxism, humanism, feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQism, etc. I do not deny Jewish involvement in all of these movements and in some cases that involvement was disproportionate to the Jewish population as a whole. But I also…
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The Presbyterian Rebellion
Some people call it the American Revolution. Others call it the War for Independence. I call it by it’s proper name: The Presbyterian Rebellion. The problem with the label “American Revolution” is that it all too easily confuses what happened in America in 1776 with what happened in France in 1789. The French Revolution proceeded…
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