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Sepetember 2026 Notes, Part 3: Fatherlessness, Therapy Culture, Free Market vs. Socialism, Tradition, Headcoverings, Christian Politics, Nations and Nationalism, Islam, Immigration, Headship/Submission, Lindsay Clancy Case, Masculinity/Femininity, Loser Theology/Poverty Gospel, Propositional Nationhood, Classical Liberalism and Modern Liberalism, Etc.
“This is the capital sin of our generation. Taking their starting point from the modern man’s mentality they have revised the gospel to meet the dilemma in which the church has found itself in the face of wholesale indifference and hostility. But the question for us is: how are we, holding to the sufficiency and… Read more
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Women, Ministry, and Liturgy (2000)
[This paper is over a quarter of a century old so obviously I would say many things different now, and it does not deal with the controversies that have arisen since then. I have been working off and over the years to transform this essay into a book entitled “Different Roles, Different Souls.” If God… Read more
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Church Schools and Alabama Law
From the Alabama Constitution, 3.01: (1) The framers of the United States Constitution, recognizing free exercise of religion as an unalienable right, secured its protection in the First Amendment to the Constitution, and the framers of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, also recognizing this right, secured the protection of religious freedom in Article I,… Read more
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Notes on Therapy Culture
Therapy culture has influenced the church a lot more than the church has influenced therapy culture. A lot of preaching has become very therapeutic, aimed more at psychological comfort than spiritual change. Many pastors use therapeutic concepts and measure themselves by standards of therapy rather the Bible; yet very few therapists use theological categories and… Read more
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FROM THE ARCHIVES (2004) – An Immodest Proposal for Peace and Purity in the Body of Christ: A Plea for Reformed Catholicity
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL FOR PURSUING PEACE AND PURITY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST: A PLEA FOR REFORMED CATHOLICITY[1] BY RICH LUSK ASSISTANT PASTOR AUBURN AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MONROE, LA Reformed Suspicions Reformed Christians are usually suspicious of any talk of unity among Christians of differing doctrinal convictions, yet the pursuit of peace and unity among… Read more
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: John Calvin, Reformed Catholic
John Calvin: Reformed Catholic By Rich Lusk MAY, 2010 John Calvin was a Reformed Catholic. While his followers may have descended into some of the grossest forms of sectarianism in the history of the church, Calvin himself modeled the kind of patience, humility, charity, and wise tolerance that promotes a catholic spirit. Calvin understood that… Read more