The Search for Meaning

Michael Jinkins
President and Professor of Theology

October 14, 2011

Ephesians 2:1-10

What is our chief end? What is our highest and best end? To glorify God and enjoy God forever.  This is surely one of the high points of Christian theology. But what does it mean, really? President Michael Jinkins addresses this deepest of big questions in his chapel sermon for the Seminary community and campus guests exploring a call to ministry. Listen to the sermon.  Read the sermon in PDF.

God’s Widening Circles

Frances S. Adeney
William A. Benfield, Jr. Professor of Evangelism and Global Mission

Ephesians 1:1-10
September 28, 2007

The sermon starts with a reading from Ephesians by student Asamoah Apenteng in his native language, Akan.

Despite scientific predictions, and despite various scenarios described in the bible, humans are blessed, in a way, by our inability to unravel and articulate the mysteries of what will happen to the universe in the future. But we keep trying. The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the church at Ephesus, wends his way does not describe what will happen in the future. But he does describe God’s intentions for the future—the “dimensions of God’s eternal purpose and grace.” Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon