Dear Cornerstone Family,
To help us celebrate our ten-year anniversary and renew our love and commitment to God and the work of the church, we have two guest preachers in November coming in to serve us the Word. This morning we have the treat of hearing from a brother whom I greatly respect and who has become a very dear friend of my family, Dr. Sean Lucas.
Dr. Lucas was born in Stratford, New Jersey, but moved up and down the eastern seaboard as a child. He graduated from Bob Jones University (BA, 1993; MA, 1994) and Westminster Theological Seminary (PhD, 2002). He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 2003, then served on the pastoral staffs of Community Presbyterian Church (PCA), Louisville, Kentucky, and Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) St. Louis, Missouri. In 2009, he became Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he served until accepting the Senior Pastor position at Independent Presbyterian Church in Memphis, TN, in 2017.
Sean has taught at two theological seminaries. He is presently the Chancellor’s Professor of Church History at Reformed Theological Seminary, where he has been teaching since 2011. Prior to that, he was chief academic officer and associate professor of church history at Covenant Theological Seminary from 2004-09.
Sean has also written many books, including On Being Presbyterian: Our Beliefs, Practices and Stories (2006); God’s Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards (2011); J. Gresham Machen (2015) and For a Continuing Church: The Roots of the Presbyterian Church in America (2015). He and his wife, Sara, have four children: Samuel, Elizabeth, Andrew, and Benjamin.
Please pay close attention to the message Sean has come to bring us.
P.S. Next week we’ll have the privilege of hearing from Dr. Sandy Willson, Interim Senior Pastor at Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria, IL. In addition to preaching for us, Dr. Willson will join me in an all-adults Sunday School hour in the chapel where we’ll tackle a wide array of key topics related to our witness in the world. Trust me, you won’t want to miss this conversation with Dr. Willson!