Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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2022 Ordination and Installation Sermons
Over the course of 2022, I have been honored and privileged to preach at a few ordination/installation services for some very good men in some very good churches. Here’s a recap. In April, I preached at the installation service for Matt Carpenter at Trinity Reformed in Huntsville. Trinity Reformed is a church we planted just…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (5): Mattson Weighs In
Mattson’s review of Wolfe’s book is well worth reading if you have been following the discussions on Christian nationalism. I might not agree with Mattson on every particular criticism and I certainly find a few more points of agreement with Wolfe’s social commentary in the second half of his book, but Mattson offers a pretty convincing…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 4)
I appreciated a lot of Wolfe’s critique of VanDrunen’s radical two kingdom view, including the way he brought out its latent antinomianism. But there are still some problems with Wolfe’s two kingdom view, especially the heaven/earth, sacred/secular dualism built into it. I do not think Wolfe has done justice to the Calvinistic transformationalists (CT). Many…
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A Political Theology for the Present Moment
We do not live in the Christendom world inhabited by the Reformers. What it means to affirm a sacred/secular dichotomy in a Christendom situation is not the same as what it means to affirm that kind of dichotomy in a post-Christendom situation. We cannot just quote Althusius (or whoever) as if it were adequate to…
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A Quick Primer on What it Means to Be Ecclesiocentric
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 Doug Wilson’s post this week is…
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Wolfe and Wilson: Questions about Christian Nationalism
I realize Canon Press and the Moscow guys are pushing Wolfe’s book hard, but it seems to me this must represent some kind of shift. Wolfe’s approach relies on Thomism and natural law (no hint of anything theonomic from what I can see so far) and emphasizes dichotomies like nature/grace and secular/sacred. These are not the…
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Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 3)
I’m not any further into Wolfe’s book but I did see his twitter thread from yesterday. Wolfe rejects ecclesiocentrism. It is not clear to me that the ecclesiocentrism he rejects is the same thing as the ecclesiocentrism someone like me might affirm. It is also not clear that Wolfe’s version of Protestant “two kingdom” political…
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Horton and Leithart on Church, Christendom, Theonomy, and Constantine
This is a good, wide ranging interview with Michael Horton and Peter Leithart. While Horton makes it known that he disagrees with Leithart’s approach to Christians in the public square, he asks good questions here. There was one “gotcha” question from Old Testament law, but it turned into one of the best parts of the discussion…
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Watching the Mid-term Game Film….
Nothing original here, but four quick take-aways from the mid-terms this week: 1. We are in a deep mess and we cannot vote our way out of it. Politics is downstream from culture. The culture is corrupt and so our politics is corrupt. Corrupt voters, swayed by a corrupt media, elect corrupt leaders who pass…
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