Author: Pastor Rich Lusk

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Did you know Paul’s love hymn in 1 Corinthians is really about Jesus? It is. Here’s the proof — just plug in “Jesus” for “love” in the hymn and see how perfectly it reads: Jesus suffers long and is kind; Jesus does not envy; Jesus does not parade himself, Jesus is not puffed up; Jesus…

Get Married and Have Babies

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In a healthy culture questions like why get married or why have children are taken for granted is there not lifestyle choices one ways but natural givens built into the fabric of reality families justification is self evident and a healthy culture people who have grown up around good models of marriage and childrearing don’t…

Anxiety

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The world tends to fight worry with the “power of positive thinking.” Worldy wisdom says, “The things you’re so worried about probably won’t happen.” That might be true to a point, but it is not true enough. It’s really fighting worry with wishful thinking — and perhaps even with lies. Scripture gives us better weapons.…

March and April ’25 on X — Marriage, Parenting, Race/Nationalism, Psalms, Baptism and Covenant, Liberalism and Libertarianism, the Papacy, the Gospel, Pastoral Ministry, Christendom and Christian Nationalism, Ecclesiastes, and More

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Some of my recent X posts (roughly mid-March to early May ‘25): — If you haven’t yet read John Murray’s article, “The Church: Its Definition in Terms of ‘Visible’ and ‘Invisible’ Invalid,” your theological education is still incomplete. — “Preach as a dying man to dying men, as one who might never preach again.” –…

The Reformed Tradition and the Civil Magistrate

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Presbyterian PSA: The Westminster Confession of Faith (revised 1788) teaches that the civil magistrate has the duty to “maintain piety, justice, and peace” in society. Obviously, the definition of these terms is to be derived from Scripture. The office of civil magistrate exists under God, “the Supreme Lord and King of all the world,” and…

Effeminacy

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Effeminacy is the lack of masculinity where it ought to be. In that sense, only men can be effeminate, and in classical discussions of this vice that’s how it was presented. Effeminacy is a softness in men that prevents them from fulfilling their peculiarly masculine responsibilities. The term could also apply to speech or mannerisms,…

Notes on Parenting

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I encourage parents to make the discipline of their young children as liturgical as possible. How can discipline be a liturgy? What is a liturgy of discipline? Discipline should be consistent not only in that parents discipline for the same offenses, but in that discipline should be carried out in a regimented way. Basically: Give…

Husbands, Take Out the Trash

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If a husband and wife are short with each other, snappy, impatient, if small disagreements escalate into major conflicts, if they constantly accuse and feel accused, etc., the presenting issue is never the *real* issue. In many cases, the problem is that a million small disruptions in the relationship have never been dealt with and…

How You Pray Matters

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Passion and persistence in prayer matter. Prayer is not supposed to be completely stoic. There is reason to think God is more likely respond to prayers offered in urgency, sincerity, and earnestness. John Frame explains why our emotional frame in prayer matters: “Earnestness is a quality we see in the prayers of many of God’s…

Jesus Covers David (Psalms)

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