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.

Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing

Kilen Gray
Dean of Students

October 24, 2014
Psalm 1

How do we use the gifts that God has given us to focus on what is most important in our lives?  Listen to the sermon.

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.

Tilling and Tending

Dr. Douglas L. Gragg
Associate Professor of Bibliography and Research
Director of Library and Information Technology Services

April 13, 2007
Genesis 2:4b-15.

In this text the human vocation is identified poetically as a responsibility “to till and to tend” the garden that sustains life. While this has obvious implications for human attitudes and responsibilities toward the natural environment, it can also be applied more broadly. What if we were to think of all of our important activities as forms of gardening? Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in pdf.