- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Bible
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Culture
This essay was originally published in 2018. It is republished on the blog, slightly edited.
Re-Thinking “Revoice”:
A Biblical Analysis of Same-Sex Attraction
Scripture is clear that engaging in homosexual activity is contrary to God's created design and God's will for humanity. But what about same-sex attraction? Is sexual desire for someone of the same sex sinful, even if it is not acted upon? What if these desires seem to come without a person consciously choosing for them to be there? And if these desires persist over a long period of time, should a professing Christian label himself as a "gay Christian"?
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Culture
Question: Suppose you did not know humans came in different skin colors. Could you figure out that fact just from reading your Bible?
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Pastoral Exhortations
The absurdist Albert Camus once wrote, "Death is philosophy's only problem." For Camus death is the ultimate problem because if every human story ends in death, it renders the rest of our lives meaningless. The wise man Solomon expressed a similar concern over death in Ecclesiastes 2:12-17 when he pondered the sobering fact that the wise man and the fool both come to the same end: If "the wise dies just like the fool," what good is wisdom? In chapter 3, Solomon extends this line of reasoning when he notes that what happens to beasts also happens to men -- "as one dies, so dies the other....They have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts."
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Blog