Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Baptismal Exhortation: Infants and the Exodus
We have the great privilege today of witnessing a baptism. I say “witnessing” because anytime you see a pastor baptize someone, Jesus himself is truly the baptizer. When a pastor baptizes someone one, young or old, Jesus is the one who actually performs the act. Sometimes it is said that there are no examples of…
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Looking Back on 2023
The new year is well underway, but I always like to look back in the work I did in the previous year that I think was most significant. My most important sermons were probably this one on LGBTQ+ “Pride” month and this one on Judges 2, preached at our church plant in Columbus, GA and which could serve as…
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Two Baptismal Exhortations
Welcome to the baptismal service of T. It is Christmas and during the season of Christmas, we celebrate a birth. We celebrate an infant. Christmas is a pro-child holiday because it’s about the coming of The Child into our world. It’s no surprise children love Christmas so much because Christmas is about a very special…
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Quotebook #5
John Stott, reminding us what Jesus did: He was misunderstood and misrepresented, and became the victim of men’s prejudices and vested interests. He was despised and rejected by his own people, and deserted by his own friends. He gave his back to be flogged, his face to be spat upon, his head to be crowned…
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The True Humanism: Being Christian Is Natural
The New Testament presents the church as God’s new humanity. The Dutch theologian A. A. Van Ruler put it this way: “We become Christians in order that we may become truly and fully human.” Being Christian is not unnatural. There is nothing more natural than living for God’s glory in Christ Jesus. It’s what we were…
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Christmas Meditation: The Invisible Made Visible (John 1:1-18)
These are notes from a sermon Pastor Lusk preached several years ago. This morning we learned that Jesus is the revelation of who God is, of what God is like, of how he has lived from all eternity. Jesus is one with God reveals God as he is in himself. Tonight I want to continue that thought…
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Christmas Meditation: A Day in the Life of God (John 1:1-18)
These are notes from a sermon Pastor Lusk preached several years ago. For most of us, Christmas memories are a vivid part of our life stories. Growing up, we quickly learned to anticipate the Christmas season as the best time of the year. Christmas was a season filled with vivid sights and sounds – the red and…
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Sermon Spin-off — 12/10/23 (1 Samuel 7)
This a slight reworking of the last portion of my sermon from 12/10/23. The end of 1 Samuel 7 describes the great blessings that accrued to Israel because of Samuel’s ministry as priest, prophet, and judge. Samuel, like Moses, held a multiplicity of offices usually assigned to many men instead of one. It was obviously…
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My Christian Nationalism
I am not really a fan of the “Christian nationalism” label. The “nationalism” bit carries too much baggage. But if I did want to identify myself as a Christian nationalist, Francis Scott Key’s hymn “Before the Lord We Bow” would define the term for me. Key is best known to Americans as the author of our national…
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An Advent Meditation from Isaiah 11
These are notes from a sermon by Rich Lusk, originally preached on December 12, 2004. G. K. Chesterton is one of my favorite authors. In his wildly funny and futuristic novel Napoleon of Notting Hill, he talks about a game the human race has been playing for a long, long time. It’s a game called “cheat…
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