Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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The Narcissism of Today’s Pop Culture: Falling in Love with Someone Other Than Yourself
I commented on the Barbie movie, so I guess I’m also obligated to comment on Taylor Swift too, right? I thought this article was very interesting and insightful. Like Hemingway, I am a Gen Xer, though his knowledge of more recent pop culture definitely exceeds mine. My knowledge of pop culture peters out pretty quickly after about…
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Pearcey Review (Summation)
Nancy Pearcey seems like a wonderful, delightful, and godly woman. She is obviously brilliant and she is totally devoted to the defense of the Christian faith in the public square. In her new book on masculinity, it’s clear that she appreciates men/masculinity and wants to defend Christian men against unfair accusations. To be honest, I…
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Pearcey’s Toxic War on Masculinity
The whole generation is womanized, the masculine tone is passing out of the world; it’s a feminine hysterical, chattering, canting age. — Henry James (1886) Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under…
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The Greatest Show on Earth (Lord’s Day Exhortation)
This is the Lord’s service for the Lord’s people on the Lord’s Day, as we hear Lord’s Word and feast on the Lord’s Supper. Liturgy is the greatest show on earth – and that’s because it’s not a show on earth, it really takes place in the heavenly sanctuary. Mystically, spiritually, by faith, when we…
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Charles Spurgeon on Masculinity
Charles Spurgeon on Christian faith and masculinity, from his 1898 book “A Good Start”: When I say that a man in Christ is a man, I mean that, if he is truly in Christ, he is therefore manly. There has got abroad a notion, somehow, that if you become a Christian, you must sink your manliness and turn milksop. It…
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Got a problem with the church?
Maybe Eugene Peterson can help: “Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren’t bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors…. There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian.“
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Ecclesiocentrism (Again!)
This is a repost from 2022. Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture. The church is the central and most important thing in the world and in history. That’s it — that’s the fundamental claim. Ecclesiocentrism can be found on almost every page of the Bible. Some examples: These paragraphs from…
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Trinity Tavern Thursday
About 18 years ago, the men of Trinity Presbyterian Church began gathering monthly for “Trinity Tavern Thursday.” This is a letter I sent out to the congregation to explain what we were doing and why. It’s republished here for a new generation of men at TPC, in the hopes that the TTT tradition will be carried on…
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Barbie and the Patriarchy
I can’t believe I’m actually going to comment on the Barbie movie….but here goes. A couple disclaimers: First, I have not seen the movie and do not intend to any time soon, so this is not an attempt to review the movie. In general, I would refrain from commenting on a movie I have not…
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