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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Face to Face: Thoughts on 1 Corinthians 13
Did you know Paul’s love hymn in 1 Corinthians is really about Jesus? It is. Here’s the proof — just plug in “Jesus” for “love” in the hymn and see how perfectly it reads: Jesus suffers long and is kind; Jesus does not envy; Jesus does not parade himself, Jesus is not puffed up; Jesus…
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Get Married and Have Babies
In a healthy culture questions like why get married or why have children are taken for granted is there not lifestyle choices one ways but natural givens built into the fabric of reality families justification is self evident and a healthy culture people who have grown up around good models of marriage and childrearing don’t…
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Anxiety
The world tends to fight worry with the “power of positive thinking.” Worldy wisdom says, “The things you’re so worried about probably won’t happen.” That might be true to a point, but it is not true enough. It’s really fighting worry with wishful thinking — and perhaps even with lies. Scripture gives us better weapons.…
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March and April ’25 on X — Marriage, Parenting, Race/Nationalism, Psalms, Baptism and Covenant, Liberalism and Libertarianism, the Papacy, the Gospel, Pastoral Ministry, Christendom and Christian Nationalism, Ecclesiastes, and More
Some of my recent X posts (roughly mid-March to early May ‘25): — If you haven’t yet read John Murray’s article, “The Church: Its Definition in Terms of ‘Visible’ and ‘Invisible’ Invalid,” your theological education is still incomplete. — “Preach as a dying man to dying men, as one who might never preach again.” –…
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The Reformed Tradition and the Civil Magistrate
Presbyterian PSA: The Westminster Confession of Faith (revised 1788) teaches that the civil magistrate has the duty to “maintain piety, justice, and peace” in society. Obviously, the definition of these terms is to be derived from Scripture. The office of civil magistrate exists under God, “the Supreme Lord and King of all the world,” and…
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Effeminacy
Effeminacy is the lack of masculinity where it ought to be. In that sense, only men can be effeminate, and in classical discussions of this vice that’s how it was presented. Effeminacy is a softness in men that prevents them from fulfilling their peculiarly masculine responsibilities. The term could also apply to speech or mannerisms,…
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