Tag: faith
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Worship before Warfare. Liturgy before Dominion. Consecration before Conquest.
An X post rom January ’25: Before Joshua could conquer the land of Canaan militarily, politically, and culturally, Abraham had to conquer it liturgically. Abraham toured the land of Canaan, building altars, places of worship, which laid the foundation for the conquest to come. Liturgy is the basis of dominion. The key to cultural transformation…
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The Problem with a Demythologized Christian Nationalism: Doing Politics as if Satan Were Real
Christian politics deals not only with earthly kings and presidents, but with heavenly principalities and cosmic powers. Our political theology is incomplete if it only deals with earthly rulers and earthly realities. A true politics embraces the politics of heaven as well. The principalities and powers are political actors as well. We must contend not…
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Liturgy is the needle; Christendom is the thread it pulls through.
The kingdom of Christ is far broader than the church. But the church, in both her gathered and scattered capacities, acts as the bearer of the kingdom. The church announces the kingdom by proclaiming Jesus is Lord and celebrates the kingdom in the Eucharist. Furthermore, the church embodies the lifestyle of the kingdom in her…
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True Political Power
An X post from February: There’s a lot of talk right now about Christians (and conservatives) learning to embrace and wield political power — something we have not really done for quite some time. This is all well and good. Being afraid of power is immature and irresponsible. Christians should seek to gain political power…
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The Eschatological Life
The Christian life is an eschatological life, lived in the power of the Spirit. It is resurrection life, the life of the future already breaking into the present. We have been delivered from an uneschatological moralism. The Christian is called to Pneumatological obedience, fulfilling the law in the power of the Spirit. Note that word…
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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…
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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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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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