Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Psalm 110 and Priestly Warfare
By time we reach the end of psalm Psalm 110, the dead bodies are piling up. In verse 1, Christ’s enemies are made into a footstool for his feet. In verse 2, he rules in the midst of his enemies — and has a scepter to smite them. In verse 5, he shatters kings in the…
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JBJ on Future Expectations and Present Duties
The future, though, cannot be envisioned. It is no good if we all join the neo-Puritans, or the Reconstructionists, or the renewed Orthodox, or the discipleship Charismatics. God has taken hold of Christendom and He has torn it apart. He intends to put it back together again in a new Kingdom Establishment. We cannot advance…
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Aquinas on Double-Signification
Aquinas on biblical interpretation: “[T]he author of Holy Scripture is God, in whose power it is to signify his meaning, not by words only (as man also can do) but also by things themselves. So whereas in every other science things are signified by words, this science has the property that the things signified by…
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Inescapable Deaconesses
Deaconesses are inescapable. Every healthy church has deaconesses, whether they call them that or not, whether the recognize them or not, whether they organize them as such or not. Every healthy church has older women who teach and counsel younger women, per Titus 2 – a ministry of women to women. Every healthy church has…
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Why the Feminists Can Never Win: Progressivism’s War with Reality
One of the problems with feminism is that its stated goals are impossible to achieve. They conflict with reality. Take Emma Watson‘s definition of feminism: “For the record, feminism by definition is: ‘The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic, and social…
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Preaching the Extremes
Preachers need to preach the extremes. (HT: Rob Rayburn) When preaching free grace, make it as radically free as you can make it. Make grace amazing, astonishing, marvelous. Pour on the love and mercy. Give them comfort and consolation. Give them peace and assurance. When preaching human responsibility and obedience, ratchet it up as much…
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John MacArthur Runs His Last Lap: A Tribute to the Modern Spurgeon
[A version of this article was published at 1819 News.] The passing of John MacArthur could be considered the end of an era in American evangelicalism. MacArthur’s public preaching ministry spanned over 50 years. He brought faithful Bible teaching to millions as his ministry grew from the local church, to radio and television, to the…
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Nature, Natural Law, and Pushing Back Against the Sexual Revoluton: Some Notes and Bibliography
In the aftermath of Obergefell, I wrote a paper that deals at least in a cursory way with nature, natural law, and sexual perversion. I also explore why appeals to nature are sometimes effective and sometimes not. See pages 2-16 of this essay:http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf About the same time, I developed one of the footnotes from that essay into a paper of its…
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Reno on the Post-War Consensus, Populism, and Liberalism
A few quotes from R. R. Reno: “Neoliberalism” is the word that gets tossed around to describe our current system. It describes an economic and cultural regime of deregulation and disenchantment. The ambition of neoliberalism is to weaken and eventually dissolve the strong elements of traditional society that impede the free flow of commerce (the…
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What Calvin Thought He Was Doing
Ronald Wallace explains what John Calvin thought he was doing (from the book Calvin, Geneva, and the Reformation, p. 134): Calvin thought of himself in relation to the Church as an architect of reconstruction. In the letter dedicating his Commentary on Isaiah to King Edward VI he described the state of the Church. It had become like…
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