Sean Lucas
@SeanMLucas
Senior pastor, @IPCMemphis Chancellor's Professor of Church History, @ReformTheoSem
All the world may oppose you, dear friends may die and forsake you, you may be left alone in the wilderness; still, you will not be alone – Christ will love you still. —Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I'd only become Anglican if I could settle in a small parish in England and solve murders. A Protestant Father Brown. #justsayin #kidding
The Scripture emphasizes that much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God. There are no little people and no big people in the true spiritual sense, but only consecrated and unconsecrated people. Schaeffer
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” - C.S. Lewis
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness
If the resurrection is true, then everything’s going to be alright.
Get your hearts quickened with the Word; go to it to fetch fire.
His cross is the sweet burden that ever I bare: it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, and sails are to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbour. Rutherford
Read the scripture, not only as a history, but as a love letter sent you from God.
A must read. Dr. Will Thompson, Presbyterianism, Race, and Mississippi a4mr.org/dr-will-thomps…
Sitting at Edinburgh Airport ready to come home. But also after two weeks in Scotland and northern England, mindful of this scene from Lewis’s Last Battle:
The Holy Spirit does extraordinary things through ordinary churches, ordinary people, and ordinary means. - paraphrase of @SeanMLucas in Presbyterianism
Satan is bold and impudent, and if you are not peremptory in your resistance he will give you fresh onsets.
“If you want to see healthy confessional theology and practice flourish in the church, don’t act like trolls on social media.” - @LigonDuncan
NEW RELEASE 🎉 Written by @SeanMLucas, this overview of Presbyterianism is an excellent resource for pastors and laypeople alike. Through July 1, save 35% off each book in the Blessings of the Faith Series when you use the code BF25! prpbooks.com/book/presbyter…
Presbyterianism (@prpbooks) by @SeanMLucas of @IPCmemphis & Chancellor’s Professor of Church History at @ReformTheoSem, with a foreword by @RevKevDeYoung, #PCAGA moderator (and @RTSCharlotte Professor), in a series edited by Jason @Helopoulos. Trifecta!
My new book “Presbyterianism” from @prpbooks is available for purchase at #PCAGA in the PCA Bookstore.
“Whoever loves Christ in sincerity cannot fail to take pleasure in meditating on that unbounded glory to which the Father has been pleased to exalt him.” ~ Herman Witsius
#OTD June 22, 1750: Colonial preacher Jonathan Edwards is dismissed from his Massachusetts pastorate because he rejected the “halfway covenant” which allows individuals who have made no confession of salvation to baptize their children.
Their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together, and tears are the very wine of blessedness.—Tolkien, LOTR