Sean Lucas

It is time for those end of the year lists to start coming out. Keeping in the tradition that I started last year, I wanted to share the top ten…

As a faculty member at RTS/Jackson, one of the great privileges that I have is to teach the first year, first semester class, “Introduction to Pastoral and Theological Studies.” This…

My dear friends: This coming Sunday morning, I plan on mentioning C. S. Lewis’s essay on “The Inner Ring.” I would encourage you to read it (or reread it as…

I consider myself a “grace boy.” That is, all the debates that have been on-going in Presbyterian and Reformed circles over sanctification over the past few years, I side with…

Like many, I have appreciated both letters from my friends, Bryan Chapell and Rick Phillips, about our common denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. The wisdom that both have shared…

From Calvin, Institutes, 3.16.19   We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion…

As I mentioned in the first post under this title (the other posts: no. 2; no. 3; no. 4), this series was a way of breaking up a paper that…

[For the explanation of this series and the first post, see here; see here for installments two and three. There will be a final application post tomorrow.] Even as the…

[For an explanation of the series and the first post, see here; for the second post, see here] Other churches were not as interested in dialogue. Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis,…

[For an explanation of this series and the first post, see here.] Even with Taylor and Bell’s moderation on racial issues, there were those in conservative ranks who were determined…