Commanded to Love

David Hester
Harrison Ray Anderson Professor of Pastoral Theology, Professor of Christian Education, and Director, Doctor of Ministry and Continuing Education

November 2, 2012
Leviticus 19:9-18
Mark 12:28-34

Is it odd to be commanded to love?  How does this relate to political campaigns and our relationship to those less fortunate?  Listen to the sermon.

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.

Holiness, Neighbors, and Strangers

David Hester
Dean of the Seminary, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Harrison Ray Anderson Professor of Ministry

September 5, 2008
Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18
Luke 10: 25-37


The “welcoming” community at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary is challenged to live fully into that welcome that all may feel loved, honored, and respected as we being the academic year together. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in .pdf.