Church office:
2245 Vanessa Dr. Birmingham, AL 35242

Telephone:
205-980-5739

Worship location:
Berney Points Baptist Church
2250 Blue Ridge Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35226

It is certainly the duty of a Christian man to ascend higher than merely to seek and secure the salvation of his own soul . . . If we wish to belong to Christ, let no man be anything for himself. But let us all be whatever we are for each other.

- John Calvin

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Preaching and Teaching Audio

Sermons

Sunday School

Sermons and Sunday School sessions from Redeemer Presbyterian (Austin, TX) and Auburn Avenue Presbyterian (Monroe, LA), 1997-2004

Bucer Institute (formerly Dabney Center)

2008 Ozarks Theology Conference: Children in the Household of Faith, hosted by Christ the King Church, Springfield, MO

2008 Mercy Ministry Conference, Christ Church, Searcy, AR (notes)

2007 Christ the King (Sacramento, CA) Family Conference: The Church

2006 Auburn Avenue Pastor's Conference: The Glorious Body of Christ - The Church in the 21st Century (Click here for lecture notes in .pdf.)

2005 Christ Church Ministerial Conference: The Life of Justification (Click here for lecture notes in .pdf.)

2004 Auburn Avenue Pastor's Conference: Reformed Catholicity

Essays

Many of Pastor Lusk's essays can be found at Theologia, The Paul Page, The N. T. Wright Page, Meshereth, and Reformed Catholicism.

Select theology articles:

Against Christianity, For the Sacraments

Blurring the Federal Vision

Bombing the Theologians' Playground - An Extended Review of N. T. Wright's NIB Commentary on Romans (pdf)

Calvin on the Pastor and Community

Covenant and Election FAQs

Dabney Lectures 2005-6:

Discipleship and the Visible Church

Do I Believe in Baptismal Regeneration?

For the Children's Sake

From Public Church to Private Christian

Gentile God-Fearers and the Jewish Rejection of the Gospel

Getting the Galatian Heresy Right

Grace and Justice in Unexpected Places

I Belong to God: A Covenantal Catechism (pdf)

Is There a Doctor in the House? The Teaching Office in the Reformed Church (pdf)

John Calvin: Some Reformed Catholic Miscellanies

John Calvin: Reformed Catholic

Jonah, the Judaizers, and the Gospel

The Justification of the Good Samaritan

Living By His Faith: Some Rough Thoughts on the Faithfulness of Christ

Miscellanies on the "New Perspective" and Pauline Biblical Theology (pdf)

New Heart, New Covenant (pdf)

A New Perspective on the Mystery of God

Paul and James on Justification: An Excerpt from M. F. Sadler, with an Introduction by Rich Lusk (pdf)

The PCA and the NPP

Putting the New Perspective into Perspective: Some Thoughts on Second Temple Judaism (on-site pdf here)

Reclaiming Catholicity

Response to Bryan Chapell

Response to the PCA Federal Vision Report - Annotated (pdf)

Response to the 2006 OPC justification report

Romans and God's Covenant Loyalty

Rome Won't Have Me

Servanthood and Merit (pdf)

Statism and Catholicity: Something to Think About

Sympathy for the Devil

The Westminster Shorter Catechism and Barriers to Catholicity

Wine and Weekly (pdf)

Women, Ministry, and Liturgy (pdf)

Hermeneutics Project

Click here for hermeneutics essays and audio.

Ecclesiology Project

Click here for ecclesiology essays and audio.

Historical Theology Project

Click here for historic Reformed catholic resouces from Mercersberg, M. F. Sadler, Cornelius Burges, and others.

Norman Shepherd Project

Click here for links to teaching by Norman Shepherd.

Select philosophy articles:

The Nature of Convention: Signification from Socrates to Saussure (pdf)

Jonathan Edwards and Free Will: An Appreciative Critique (pdf)

The Psychology of Freedom and the Metaphysics of Necessity: Aquinas on the Human Will and Divine Providence (pdf)

The Speech of Paul (A Summary, Evaluation, and Refutation of David Hume's "The Speech of Epicurus") (pdf)

Select historical articles:

A Compact Road Map to American History: Part 1
A Compact Road Map to American History: Part 2
A Compact Road Map to American History: Part 3

Letters

Pastoral Letters index

Pastoral letter on "Trinity Tavern Thursday."

Books and Journals

Paedofaith: A Primer on the Mystery of Infant Salvation and a Handbook for Covenant Parents

Foreword to reprint of M. F. Sadler's The Second Adam and the New Birth

Contributor to The Federal Vision

Contributor to The Auburn Avenue Theology: Pros and Cons

Contributor to The Case for Covenant Communion

Contributor to A Faith That Is Never Alone, edited by Andrew Sandlin

Contributor to Omnibus III: Reformation to the Present, edited by Douglas Wilson and G. Tyler Fischer

"Baptismal Efficacy and Baptismal Latency: A Sacramental Dialogue" in Presbyterion: Covenant Seminary Review, Spring 2006. A version of the essay is available here.

"An Immodest Proposal for Pursuing Peace and Purity in the Body of Christ: A Plea for Reformed Catholicity" in Reformation and Revival Journal, Winter 2004. Now available on site here.

"N. T. Wright and Reformed Theology: Friends or Foes?" in Reformation and Revival Journal, Spring 2002. Now available on site here.