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Palm Sunday Exhortation: Humility and Glory

Written by: Rich Lusk
Category: Bible
Published: 02 April 2023

Palm Sunday perfectly captures the paradoxes of the gospel. It juxtaposes glory and humility.

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A Future and Final Coming (An Email to a Hyperpreterist from 2007)

Written by: Rich Lusk
Category: Bible
Published: 31 March 2023

And he shall come again, with glory, to judge the the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end....

and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

                                                                                                                       -- Nicene Creed

 

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With the scourge of hyperpreterism making a reappearance recently, I dredged up an old email on the topic. Back in 2007, we had a hyperpreterist visit our congregation for a few weeks. It was obvious he was looking for a place where he could proselytize. He had listened to some of my sermons and Sunday school classes online and knew I was a “partial preterist.” We had a few in person discussions and an email exchange before it became clear we were not going to budge on orthodoxy and he was not going to submit. So he moved on. While he attended our congregation, he generally participated in the worship service, but he would not recite the Nicene Creed (we include the creed in the liturgy every week). When I explained to him that he needed to join in confessing the faith of the church or he could never belong to the church, he was disappointed. He had hoped I would be sympathetic and even expected to convince me of his position. But after my discussions with him, I was more convinced of the historic orthodox position than ever. The email below is not the whole of our discussion, but gets at some of the basic problems with the hyperpreterist position. I have removed a bit of personal information and a made a few edits such as updating links, but otherwise this is my email to him. I hope it will be helpful in light of current controversies. 

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Psalm 19 and Divine Revelation (Sermon Follow Up, Part 2)

Written by: Rich Lusk
Category: Bible
Published: 13 March 2023

I want to provide a little more follow up to my two recent sermons on Psalm 19.

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Psalm 19 and Lent (Sermon Follow Up, Part 1)

Written by: Rich Lusk
Category: Bible
Published: 13 March 2023

I recently preched two sermons on Psalm 19 (available here and here). In this blog post, I want to follow up on the second sermon, with a point that seems especially appropriate for Lent.

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Clown Rights vs Crown Rights

Written by: Rich Lusk
Category: Culture
Published: 02 March 2023

The so-called culture war today comes down to what kind of ruler we want. It's about the crown rights of King Jesus vs. the clown rights of Joe Biden (and his ilk). Who would you rather have rule over you -- a king or a clown? Do you want the kingdom of God, full of goodness, truth, and beauty? Or clown world, full of darkness, depravity, and folly?

  1. Epiphany Exhortation: Keep the Party Going
  2. Zephaniah's Christian Nationalism (Sermon Follow-up)
  3. Baptismal Exhortation: Grace Restores the Family
  4. Advent/Christmas Exhortation

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