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  • Christian Nationalism and the Noahic Covenant

    This is from an X post from October, 2024, responding to this Paul Miller talk: Paul Miller’s talk was maddening. It’s not that everything he said is false, it’s that he managed to mix error into every single sentence, even those that included hints of the truth.  I’ll limit myself to commenting on one aspect Read more

  • Church in Three Dimensions

    The church exists in three dimensions — as a culture, a counter-culture, and the transformer of culture: Church as culture — gathered worship/community — priestly Church as counter-culture — mission/mercy/”holy war” — kingly Church as transformer of culture — creating a new world through word and deed — prophetic Read more

  • Nature and Grace — Again!

    What is the proper relationship of grace and nature?  When grace eats up nature, you end up with the antinomianism of progressivism. There is no natural order inherent in creation to which we must conform. There is no divine design embedded in reality, so anything goes. You can be whatever you want to be. You Read more

  • What is America? Some Notes from X

    We must push back against both propositionalism and race-essentialism. Both approaches are too shallow to effectively answer the question, “What is a nation?” We have to reckon with the fact that there is much about America that is unique, and thus the question, “What is America?,” or, “What is an American?,” becomes a good bit Read more

  • The Church, Salvation and Apostasy

    The Church, Salvation and Apostasy Quotes compiled by Rich Lusk Therefore he who would find Christ must first of all find the church.  How would one know where Christ and his faith were, if one did not know where his believers are?  And he who would know something of Christ, must not trust himself, or Read more

  • Saul vs David, Self-Pity vs God’s Pity

    I recently interrupted my preaching series on 1 Samuel to look at what I call David’s “cave psalms.” These are psalms composed by David while he was on the run from Saul, usually hiding out in caves. These psalms tell us when they were composed in their title notes (which I take to be part Read more