Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Who Preaches the Easter Message?
Some memes are funny and accurate. Other memes are misleading or even dishonest.There is a meme that starts to make rounds around Easter each year that says something like, “In the interest of biblical accuracy, all preaching about the resurrection this Easter Sunday will be done by women.”One does not have to appeal to the…
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“It is Finished!”: The Cross as Prophetic Finale
What did Jesus mean when he cried out from the cross, “It is finished” in John 19? Certainly, Jesus was making a soteriological statement. “It is finished” means he has drunk the cup of divine wrath against human sin to the dregs. He has paid for and cancelled our debts (“tetelestai” was often written on…
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Pilate on Trial: The Gospel According to Pilate
Pilate sneered, “What is truth?” when Jesus stood trial before him. But then Pilate went on to speak truth, time after time. Indeed, Pilate, like Caiaphas in John 11, unwittingly preached the gospel. Consider the words of Pilate in John 18-19: “Are you the King of the Jews?” Yes, he is the King of the…
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Against the Seder; For the Lord’s Supper
There’s nothing more stupid in the church today than evangelicals doing a play-acting “Seder Supper.” First, we don’t need to do a fake Passover. The church already has the Lord’s Supper which is (among other things) the fulfillment of the old covenant Passover. Jesus gave us a meal. Why do something other than what he…
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Anti-Whiteness and White Identity Politics
Anti-whiteness is a real problem. Some of it comes from self-loathing progressive whites. Some of it comes from people of other ethnicities and races who are – to use the old-fashioned term – racists against whites. A lot of anti-whiteness is actually a proxy war against historic Western/Christian civilization. But many attempts to push back…
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February/March 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Imprecatory Psalms, Feminism vs. Femininity, War with Iran, Putnam on Diversity, American Christian Nationalism, Roosevelt on Islam, John Stott on the Cross, Thomas Manton on Covenant Children and Parenting, Free Market Capitalism, St. Patrick, Wealth, John 13, Empathy, Etc.
I recently did a podcast with Josh Haymes on love/hatred for enemies: This was a follow up to an earlier podcast we did on imprecatory psalms: Right Wing Watch took notice of our most recent episode — though they managed to miss the whole point of what we were saying: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/any-means-necessary-christian-nationalists-call-destruction-their-political-enemies Of course, this article…
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Biblical Submission vs. Mutual Submission
A note on a wife’s submission to her husband: Egalitarians push the concept of “mutual submission” based on Ephesians 5:21. The grammatical problems with this way of reading that text have been pointed out many times by the better commentators. The egalitarian reading of the text is a novel interpretation. It’s a reading of the…
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Thomas Manton on Faithful Parenting/Covenant Education and Infants Dying in Infancy
“Here is encouragement to the neglected duty of education. Manytimes we neglect our little children, think we can do no good upon them.Oh, water the seed of grace, for aught you know they may be sanctifiedfrom the womb. It is said of John the Baptist, Luke 1:15, ‘He shall be filledwith the Holy Ghost from…
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Thomas Manton on Infant Faith and Infant Salvation
If without faith it be impossible to please God, then childrenmust have some kind of faith, else they can never be accepted to life. Iknow that the apostle doth principally speak of adult or grown persons,men of age, such as come to God, and seek him: but though, however, therule is general, there is no…
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