Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Odds and Ends
I’m not any good at Twitter and find it a pain to use. In fact, I hate Twitter and try my best to avoid it. But if I did use Twitter, that’s probably where these short takes would end up. In the meantime, here is a hodge-podge of things I have thought about or read about…
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Palm Sunday Exhortation: Humility and Glory
Palm Sunday perfectly captures the paradoxes of the gospel. It juxtaposes glory and humility. In the eyes of the world, if you are glorious you are not humble and if you are humble you are not glorious. But the gospel brings together glory and humility, and on Palm Sunday, glorious humility and humble glory were…
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A Future and Final Coming (An Email to a Hyperpreterist from 2007)
And he shall come again, with glory, to judge the the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end…. and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Nicene Creed —– With the scourge of hyperpreterism making a reappearance recently, I dredged up an old…
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Psalm 19 and Divine Revelation (Sermon Follow Up, Part 2)
I want to provide a little more follow up to my two recent sermons on Psalm 19. As I pointed out, some view the psalm as having two parts: verses 1-6 on creational revelation, and verses 7-14 on biblical revelation. Others view it as having three sections; the third section is found in verses 12-14,…
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Psalm 19 and Lent (Sermon Follow Up, Part 1)
I recently preched two sermons on Psalm 19 (available here and here). In this blog post, I want to follow up on the second sermon, with a point that seems especially appropriate for Lent. In the closing verses of the psalm, David turns from examining the heavens and the Scriptures to look at his own heart. He realizes…
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Clown Rights vs Crown Rights
The so-called culture war today comes down to what kind of ruler we want. It’s about the crown rights of King Jesus vs. the clown rights of Joe Biden (and his ilk). Who would you rather have rule over you — a king or a clown? Do you want the kingdom of God, full of…
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Epiphany Exhortation: Keep the Party Going
The move from Christmas season to Epiphany season should not be a let down. Christmas is a season of great joy, but Epiphany is as well. And so that’s my exhortation to you: Keep the party going. Keep the celebration going. The themes change, but the festivity remains. Christmas celebrates Christ’s birth into the world.…
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Zephaniah’s Christian Nationalism (Sermon Follow-up)
This is a follow up to my January 1, 2023 sermon. My opening comments on the passage are not on the audio here (thought you can get them on the YouTube stream of the service here), so I will reproduce those comments here, along with a few other notes. Today’s sermon builds off of last week’s sermon, though…
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Baptismal Exhortation: Grace Restores the Family
There are many arguments we can derive from Scripture in favor of the practice of baptizing children. This is the eighth day of Christmas, the day of Christ’s circumcision. We could look at circumcision as a precursor to baptism. If the sign of the righteousness that comes by faith could be applied to children in…
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Advent/Christmas Exhortation
Christmas celebrates the incarnation of God’s Son. John describes it as the Word made flesh. Isaiah used the language of “Immanuel,” meaning “God with us.” In the incarnation, God becomes man without ceasing to be God. Jesus Christ, from the point of conception by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is…
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