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  • Living a Red Pill Life in a Blue Pill World

    Living a Red Pill Life in a Blue Pill World

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    Pastor Rich Lusk
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    The red pill/blue pill metaphor has gotten mangled to the point that it’s almost useless. I never saw the Matrix movies, but when I first encountered the red pill/blue pill categories, I thought they were fairly helpful interpretive lenses for navigating certain aspects of life in the modern world. I thought the red pill/blue pill…

  • Life in Negative World (notes)

    Life in Negative World (notes)

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    Pastor Rich Lusk
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    We recently had a men’s discussion of Renn’s Life in Negative World book. I really liked the book, though it is far from perfect. Obviously Renn is a sociologist not a pastor or theologian, but I still thought some of his interaction with Scripture could have been deeper. He really missed a lot of opportunities to bring…

  • Easter Miscellanies

    Easter Miscellanies

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    Pastor Rich Lusk
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    Here are some things that have been on my mind during this Easter season: In the sermon on 4/7/24 on Matthew 27:57-28:20, I made the assumption that the guards at the tomb where Jesus was buried were Roman. The question was asked afterward if they could have been Jewish guards. The text is not clear…