Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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First Family: Properly Relating My Heavenly and Earthly Allegiences
The church is my first family, but not my only family (1 Timothy 3:15; Ephesians 5:21ff). The church is my first nation, but not my only nation (1 Peter 2:9; Romans 9:2ff). My citizenship is in heaven, but that’s not my only citizenship – I am also a citizen in an earthly nation (Philippians 3:20;…
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Home: What Christian Nationalism Is Really About
Christian nationalism grows out of and is undergirded by Christian familialism. There can be no Christian nation where there are not countless Christian families. And where there are happy and holy Christian families, the broader Christianization of the nation is sure to follow. Christian nationalism starts around the dining table. It starts in neighborhoods and…
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Conquest’s Second Law
These are old X posts, from August and November of 2024. — A thread on Conquests Second Law: Conquest’s Second Law states, roughly, “Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.” What Robert Conquest recognized in this law is that it takes more effort to build than to tear down,…
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The “Real Presence” of Demons and the Lord’s Supper
An X post and subsequent discussion: It’s interesting that some Christians are adamant that sacraments are only symbols. There is no “real presence” of Christ in the water, bread, or wine. But interestingly, Paul leaves no doubt about the “real presence” of demons in paganism’s religious feasts in 1 Cor. 10. Christians are not to…
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More on Theonomy/Christian Reconstruction and Christian Nationalism: Calvin and the WCF, Public Religion, America’s Christian Founding, the Problems with Racial Identity Politics, Ordo Amoris, Patriotism, Calvin on the Civil Magistrate, and More
My article on the current Christian Nationalism movement was published by Theopolis. Here are some additional older notes I put together that cover some ground not covered in the Theopolis essay (some of this material has been posted to X; a few bits and pieces of it probably did make it into the Theopolis essay).…
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1 Samuel 28 Sermon Follow-Up: Samuel Speaks From the Grave
From dragons to drugs to divination, the sermon covered a lot of ground. We only scratched the surface of the “deep weird” in the Bible. A few more examples: — In Deut. 32:8, the nations (after Babel) are divided up according to the sons of God (LXX), presumably angelic and demonic beings (cf. Job 1:6).…
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Thanksgiving Day History Lesson
I know it’s a long way to November, but here’s an old X thread on Thanksgiving, excerpted from “The Light & The Glory” by Peter Marshall & David Manuel: The men were gathered in the common house to conclude their conference on military instruction when the cry went up, “Indian coming!” Indian coming? Surely he…
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Dabney and Lewis on Feminism
R. L. Dabney slinging red pill insights on intersexual dynamics in 1871: “This suggests a third consequence, which some of the advocates of the movement even already are bold enough to foreshadow. “Women’s Rights” mean the abolition of all permanent marriage ties. We are told that Mrs. Cady Stanton avowed this result, proclaiming it at…
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Calvinism and America’s Founding
On and around January 3, 2025, I put up a number of posts on X about the role of Calvinism in America’s founding. I reproduce some of them here, along with a few other notes. — The first Great Awakening, which was very Calvinistic in nature, was certainly instrumental in America’s founding. George Whitefield –…
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Christopher Columbus
An old post on Columbus from X: Today is Columbus Day, and Christopher Columbus is certainly a man worthy of remembrance and celebration. Of course, in this “politically correct” era, it is commonplace to attack Columbus. We have seen attempts to turn this day into “Indigenous Peoples Day” (why would we celebrate people who practiced…
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