Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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A Couple More Notes on Renn’s Negative World
It’s been pointed out that some Big Eva types have been dismissive of Renn’s “three worlds” model, including his claim that we turned to negative world around 2014. Why is this? One major reason is that these Big Eva leaders and their failed strategies are precisely why we landed in negative world. If we are…
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Trump 2024?
The Presidential election still several months off, but already many Reformed/evangelical influencers (such as Wilson, Brito, Mattson, Leithart, and Devine — you can easily google their articles so I will not take time to link them) are giving their counsel about how Christians should approach voting this time around. Frankly, I do not think we…
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Pick one: Romance or Equality?
You can have equality or romance but not both. The feminist version of equality killed sexual polarity which in turn killed romance, attraction, and ultimately marriage (as low marriage rates attest). In South Korea, an all out gender war has led to the lowest birth rate in the world, despite great prosperity. In the United…
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Life in Negative World (notes)
We recently had a men’s discussion of Renn’s Life in Negative World book. I really liked the book, though it is far from perfect. Obviously Renn is a sociologist not a pastor or theologian, but I still thought some of his interaction with Scripture could have been deeper. He really missed a lot of opportunities to bring…
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CREC Polity
I was recently asked if the CREC is Presbyterian. This is part of my response: It’s a very attenuated version of presbyterianism — small “p” presbyterianism, I suppose. We certainly are presbyterian in a fundamental sense because we have presbyteries and they perform many of the roles traditionally granted to presbyteries (eg, appeals court, examining…
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Easter Miscellanies
Here are some things that have been on my mind during this Easter season: In the sermon on 4/7/24 on Matthew 27:57-28:20, I made the assumption that the guards at the tomb where Jesus was buried were Roman. The question was asked afterward if they could have been Jewish guards. The text is not clear…
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On the Reformation
Jaroslav Pelikan gives an interesting perspective on the Reformation: “In fact, recent research on the Reformation entitles us to sharpen it and to say that the Reformation began because the reformers were too catholic in the midst of a church that had forgotten its catholicity. That generalization applies particularly to Luther and to some of…
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4/28/24 Sermon Follow-Up: Justification by (fill in the blank)
Justification by (fill in the blank). My sermon was based on the premise that justification is not just a Christian concern, but an innate human concern. All people operate out of a desire for justification — to be declared in the right, to be innocent, to be validated, to be vindicated. A great deal of human…
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Tribute to a Black Dog
“I wish good dogs never got gray and old…” – Riley Green “That’s putting a lot of trust in a dog,” White said. “Right now,” Sanderson said bleakly, “a dog’s all we got left to put any trust in”….. I don’t guess a dog understands many words, but I think he can listen and tell…
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Cary, NC Conference — The Psalms: Getting to the Heart of the Christian Life
Next weekend, I’ll be speaking at Christ Church in Cary, NC. The details are here. Here’s a quick overview of my talks: The Psalms are at the center of our Bibles and at the center of the Christian life. The psalter is amazingly versatile, covering every human emotion, from the deepest agony to the highest…
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