Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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2019 Marriage Seminar
Back in 2019, we did a marriage seminar at TPC. I gave two talks at the seminar and the sermon on Sunday wrapped it up. I might say a few things differently today, but many people found content in these talks helpful — and occasionally controversial! 2. The Dance of Headship and Submission 3. The…
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Some Random Notes on Romans 11, Modern Israel, and the Land of Canaan
“The Church is Israel. This does not mean that the Church replaced Israel, nor does it mean that a natural Jew cannot be grafted back into the true Israel. They can, but only by bending a knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God established Abraham and promised to bless his seed and all those…
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Psalm 128 Sermon: The God-Fearing Man’s Family
I’ve preached on Psalm 128 many times. It’s one of my favorites. Here’s a sermon preached at Christ the King Church in Greenville, SC on March 13, 2022.
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Does Modern Day Israel Have Right to the Land?
Why does the modern nation-state of Israel have a “right” to its land in the present day? Israel has a right to its land because the people who ruled it before them gave it to them. That’s it. That’s the sole rationale. And that’s just fine. All nations have their land based on gift, purchase,…
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More February 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Creation/Evolution, Spurgeon on Islam, Postmillennialism, Rise of Liberalism/Progressivism, Anti-Semitism, Rights, Drugs, Etc.
“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.” — Thomas Chalmers — “A piety which concerns itself only with man’s soul and leaves the world to the devil is a profane piety” — R.J. Rushdoony — “Faith stands in antithesis to works;…
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Jesus and the Fulfillment of Israel’s Covenant: Holy Land and Holy People
[Another version of this essay was published under the title “The Story of Israel” on the Theopolis website.] Today’s news headlines, popular podcasts, and social media discussions, are dominated with questions about the modern nation-state of Israel and land disputes in the Middle East. Who owns the land, sometimes called the “holy land”? I am…
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We Are Still Living in the Early Church
We are still living in the days of the early church. God promised through Moses he would be faithful to (at least) a thousand generations (Deuteronomy 7:9). Moses died around 1400 BC. If a generation is 40 years, Moses promised God would show faithfulness to his people for (at a minimum) 40,000 years. We have…
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The Post-War-Between-the-States Consensus
The Episcopal church’s bishops voted to take the word “obey” out of the wife’s marriage vows in 1922. See https://www.nytimes.com/1922/09/13/archives/brides-no-longer-need-say-obey-episcopal-house-of-bishops-votes-to.html. The Presbyterian church (PCUSA) ordained its first female elder in 1930. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_E._Dickson. Horace Bushnell, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch all advocated for a utopian “social gospel” by means of statism in the late 19th/early…
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Pastors as Specialists in the Bible and Generalists in Culture/Life
Pastors, by definition, are generalists. We are supposed to be specialists in the Bible, but the Bible is so broad in its scope, a teacher of the Bible must be a generalist. A good pastor is one of the last generalists left in our highly specialized society. The Bible teaches on marriage, sex, parenting, money,…
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The Problem with Christian Zionism
The core problem with Christian Zionism is simple. All of God’s promises are yes and Amen in Christ (2 Corinthians 1:20). There are no promises to anyone outside of Christ. Jews outside of Christ have no divine promises to claim, including no land promise. Obviously the people living in the land right now have a…
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