(Insert Expletive Here) the Box

Caitlin Simpson
LPTS Student Body President

May 6, 2015
Romans 12:2,3

Since being in seminary I have learned a thing or two about that box we call the pulpit.  I can’t, in good conscious enter into that box.  Learn why by listening to the sermon or reading the sermon in PDF.

(Note: there are a few expletives in this sermon. If you feel you are likely to be offended, please don’t listen or read.)

Navigating the Changing Landscape of World Christianity

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
Retired Secretary of the Reformed Church in America

April 13, 2015
Festival of Theology
Greenhoe Lecture

Christian witness, ministry, mission and evangelism today take place within the radically changing landscapes of world Christianity.  And these changing landscapes should change the paradigms, theological perspectives, partners, and the sharing of power as we all seek today to join in God’s ongoing mission in the world. Listen to the lecture.  Read the lecture 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.

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.

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.