Did God Talk to You?

Michael Jinkins

President
Professor of Theology

Exploratory Weekend
October 7, 2016
Mark 10: 46-52

So, I have a question for you today. It’s not really my question. It is the question posed by a teenager who is trying to understand discipleship. And he wants to know: “Did God talk to you?” Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.

Term Paper Christianity

Michael Jinkins
President
Professor of Theology

September 11, 2015
Mark 8: 27-34

Our profession of faith in Christ is not an exercise in speculative metaphysics; it is a pledge of our undivided loyalty rendered directly to God in the first person, singular.

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Here I am, Lord! Now What?

Michael Jinkins
President and Professor of Theology

March 6, 2015
Exploratory Weekend
Isaiah 6:1-13
2 Timothy 4:1-5

Isaiah also reminds us that it is possible to be both prophet and priest at the same time. But we must never forget who is king. We can bear the people in our hearts, only if we bear also God’s full and redemptive purposes for them in our hearts as well.  Listen to the sermon.  Read the sermon in PDF.

Listening for God

Michael Jinkins
President
Professor of Theology

Exploratory Weekend
October 3, 2014
I Kings 19: 1-13

How do we listen for God in this world and in our lives?  Listen to the sermon.  Read the sermon in PDF.

Beloved

Michael Jinkins
President
Professor of Theology

October 11, 2013
Luke 3:21-23a
Exploratory Weekend

What does it mean that the ministry of Jesus began at his baptism in the Jordan River? What does it mean that we are called into the ministry of Christ through our own baptisms?  Listen to the Exploratory Weekend sermon.   Read the Exploratory Weekend sermon in PDF.

The Essence of the Gospel

Michael Jinkins
President and Professor of Theology

Exploratory Weekend
March 1, 2013
John 8:1-12

What does it mean to follow Jesus?  Listen to the sermon.  Read the sermon in PDF.

Meeting Jesus at Louisville Seminary

Michael Jinkins
President and Professor of Theology

October 12, 2012
Luke 15

We must be careful not to confuse contempt for others with moral faithfulness.  Listen to the sermon.

Hearts on Fire

Michael Jinkins

President and Professor of Theology

Luke 24:13-35

I John 1:7-9 and 4:7-17

Reflect for a moment on what it means for us that Jesus Christ calls us to follow him. We are born-again and again and again throughout our lives. We rise daily to new life in Jesus Christ. We keep on rising daily to new life throughout our lives.  Listen to the sermon.  Read the sermon in PDF.

The Next Frontier

Michael Jinkins
President and Professor of Theology

Stated Meeting of the Mid-Kentucky Presbytery
November 14, 2011
Luke 4:14-20; 10:1-2
1 Corinthians 1:18-31

President Michael Jinkins addresses the question of clergy shortage and invites us to reflect on our “loss of confidence in the church regarding the gospel of Jesus Christ and to identify our loss of confidence in the church for what it is. …Do we still have confidence in the power of God to seek and to save, to liberate, and to raise from death to new life?” Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.

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.

Transforming the Mind in the Service of God: A Case for Theological Education

Michael Jinkins

President of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Presidential Inauguration

April 15, 2011

Romans 12: 2

We are living in an exceptional historical moment, at least for Protestant Christianity, an “axial” moment. Theological schools are right in the middle of this axial moment, because the church is right in the middle of this moment. Most, if not all, of the issues that challenge the church also challenge the seminary. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.

A Letter to My Son about Beginning Seminary

Michael Jinkins

President and Professor of Theology

March 3, 2011

Exploratory Weekend

Job 28:28

Micah 6:6-8

1 Corinthians 13:12-13

James 2:24-26

Leviticus 19:1,17-18

President Jinkin’s sermon is a letter he wrote his son, Jeremy, not long after Jeremy discerned a call to ordained ministry. The letter explores what it means to begin seminary. This sermon addresses us wherever we are as we seek to follow Christ in trust and obedience, in the name of the Creator, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.

Vocation: A Matter of Life and Death

Michael Jinkins

President and Professor of Theology

Exploratory Weekend

October 1, 2010

John 21:15-19

There is something like surrender involved in the discernment of our vocations, but there is also the gladness of meeting the needs of the world. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.

The Life of the Mind in the Service of God: Why a Thinking Faith Still Matters

Michael Jinkins

President and Professor of Theology

September 9, 2010

Convocation

Today, perhaps more than at any time since the Protestant Reformation, we need to recover a commitment to an intellectually rigorous faith, a courageous and imaginative faith, a thinking faith so memorably expressed in John Calvin’s phrase, ‘the life of the mind in the service of God. One of the great challenges of theological education and of the life of faith in our time is to make a case for that quality of thinking faith which does not shrink either from scholarship or from acts of compassion, from the adventure of critical thought or from the call to justice. Listen to the address. Read the address in PDF.