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  • True Political Power

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    An X post from February: There’s a lot of talk right now about Christians (and conservatives) learning to embrace and wield political power — something we have not really done for quite some time. This is all well and good. Being afraid of power is immature and irresponsible. Christians should seek to gain political power…

  • The Eschatological Life

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    The Christian life is an eschatological life, lived in the power of the Spirit. It is resurrection life, the life of the future already breaking into the present. We have been delivered from an uneschatological moralism. The Christian is called to Pneumatological obedience, fulfilling the law in the power of the Spirit. Note that word…

  • Christian Nationalism and the Noahic Covenant

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    This is from an X post from October, 2024, responding to this Paul Miller talk: Paul Miller’s talk was maddening. It’s not that everything he said is false, it’s that he managed to mix error into every single sentence, even those that included hints of the truth.  I’ll limit myself to commenting on one aspect…

  • Church in Three Dimensions

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    The church exists in three dimensions — as a culture, a counter-culture, and the transformer of culture: Church as culture — gathered worship/community — priestly Church as counter-culture — mission/mercy/”holy war” — kingly Church as transformer of culture — creating a new world through word and deed — prophetic

  • Nature and Grace — Again!

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    What is the proper relationship of grace and nature?  When grace eats up nature, you end up with the antinomianism of progressivism. There is no natural order inherent in creation to which we must conform. There is no divine design embedded in reality, so anything goes. You can be whatever you want to be. You…

  • What is America? Some Notes from X

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    We must push back against both propositionalism and race-essentialism. Both approaches are too shallow to effectively answer the question, “What is a nation?” We have to reckon with the fact that there is much about America that is unique, and thus the question, “What is America?,” or, “What is an American?,” becomes a good bit…

  • The Church, Salvation and Apostasy

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    The Church, Salvation and Apostasy Quotes compiled by Rich Lusk Therefore he who would find Christ must first of all find the church.  How would one know where Christ and his faith were, if one did not know where his believers are?  And he who would know something of Christ, must not trust himself, or…

  • Saul vs David, Self-Pity vs God’s Pity

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    I recently interrupted my preaching series on 1 Samuel to look at what I call David’s “cave psalms.” These are psalms composed by David while he was on the run from Saul, usually hiding out in caves. These psalms tell us when they were composed in their title notes (which I take to be part…

  • Face to Face: Thoughts on 1 Corinthians 13

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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…