Blogs by Sean Lucas

Last night as I was flipping the channels during a second straight depressing late-inning loss by my Cardinals, I happened onto Joel Osteen's program. As someone professionally-trained as an American religious historian, it was striking to watch Osteen once again... continue

I so appreciated Steve's post on the continued usefulness of the "evangelical" label. Thinking about historian David Bebbington's four-fold identificiation of an evangelical (biblicism; conversionism; cruci-centrism; activism) can be helpful here; it is striking that Steve's list contains them all,... continue

Over the past few days, on my personal blog, I've been posting quotes from L. Gregory Jones and Kevin R. Armstrong's book, Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry (you can find these here, here, and here). This morning I finished the... continue

One of the hardest things for me, as well as the students whom I serve, is to discern accurately our own gifts and callings. Attending to God's own guidance in that process of discerning is particularly challenging. However, it is... continue

From Jonathan Edwards, "God Glorified in the Work of Redemption," in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-5:The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great good... continue

I have a bad habit: I keep adding books to my growing pile beside my bed. This morning, I finished a book that wasn't on this list: Christian Scharen's Faith as a Way of Life. Originating out of Yale's Center... continue

Our intrepid director requested that we blog about our summer reading; since I know I will either throw some of these books to the side, complete others, and start new ones, this is my first installment (in various stages, all... continue

The great thing about this blog is that you get to learn new words. From dictionary.com: apotheosis means "model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal." I typically abominate learning new words, but this one seems... continue

This past April, my wife and I had the opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of the Westminster Seminary California community as the Westminster Student Association Lecturer. We had a wonderful time and hopefully were able to contribute a bit. My... continue

In my morning worship, I've also been reading sections of Isaiah. One thing that struck me were the competing claims represented in Isaiah 46 and 47. In Isaiah 46, God clearly stakes his claim to absolute sovereign rights: "for I... continue