Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Why the West Has Been the Best
A study was done by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2002 to discover why the West has had such historical success. This is what they found: “One of the things we were asked to look into was what accounted for the success, in fact, the pre-eminence of the West all over the world.…
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Sermon Follow Up (11/12/23)
Robert Rayburn’s sermon on 1 Samuel 6 captures the essence of the point I was driving at in my sermon on the same text, namely the demand that our faith in God must produce fear of God and obedience to God. Here some excerpts from his sermon (the last two paragraphs are especially important): “Behold the goodness…
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Sermon and Sunday School Follow Up (11/5/23)
These notes went out in last week’s updates email. The bulk of the message is follow up material on Sunday School (audio available soon) and the sermon from 1 Samuel 5 (audio available here). In Sunday School, we looked at various roles and titles ascribed to Mary in Scripture and in church history. We spent a…
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The True Fight for Social Justice
Let the Church Challenge the Idols of Our Day(Or: Let the Church Fight for True Social Justice) The article was originally written in 2017, but I trust it’s still relevant. Let the church recover her role as a promoter of true social justice, especially against the most pernicious idols of our day, same-sex “marriage” and…
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TPC: Building for the Future (notes from the 10/15/23 congregational meeting)
These are some notes summarizing a recent presentation at a TPC congregational meeting, laying out plans for a long term building project. The session recently formed a building committee to develop a master plan for our property that ties into our vision for our congregation as a whole. When we purchased this property, we knew…
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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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