Eboo Patel's speech in acceptance of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. The speech was given April 14, 2010 in Caldwell Chapel at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Listen to the speech.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Good News for a Troubled Church: The Legacy and Hope of the Black Church
Director of Black Church Studies Program
February 26, 2010
Revelation 2:8-11
Black Church Studies Consultation
The message to the church at Smyrna speaks to the traditions of the Black Church in a unique and challenging way. John tells a church that is already troubled and poor that more trouble is on the way. John also instructs the church not to be afraid of what they will face. This message intersects with the legacy and hope of the Black Church in ways that challenge us to face the “tribulation” with hope and realism. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF
February 26, 2010
Revelation 2:8-11
Black Church Studies Consultation
The message to the church at Smyrna speaks to the traditions of the Black Church in a unique and challenging way. John tells a church that is already troubled and poor that more trouble is on the way. John also instructs the church not to be afraid of what they will face. This message intersects with the legacy and hope of the Black Church in ways that challenge us to face the “tribulation” with hope and realism. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
What to Do with Your Calendar
Susan R. Garrett
Professor of New Testament
February 12, 2010
Psalm 90:1-12
James 4:13-17
James is worried about those people who claim to follow the way and wisdom of God but in actuality are attracted to that illusory power and control that the world regards as success. Such people he calls “double-minded,” because they try to please God and live worldly lives at the same time. They say that they are friends of God but they live like friends of the world. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Professor of New Testament
February 12, 2010
Psalm 90:1-12
James 4:13-17
James is worried about those people who claim to follow the way and wisdom of God but in actuality are attracted to that illusory power and control that the world regards as success. Such people he calls “double-minded,” because they try to please God and live worldly lives at the same time. They say that they are friends of God but they live like friends of the world. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Monday, March 1, 2010
The Vision Thing
Johanna W. H. Bos
Dora Pierce Professor of Bible and Professor of Old Testament
Feb 19, 2010
Habakkuk 1:2-2:4
Parallels are drawn between the burden of violence the prophet saw, and the burden of violence and lack of justice experienced by modern women around the world. Listen to the sermon. (The text of this sermon is not available.)
Dora Pierce Professor of Bible and Professor of Old Testament
Feb 19, 2010
Habakkuk 1:2-2:4
Parallels are drawn between the burden of violence the prophet saw, and the burden of violence and lack of justice experienced by modern women around the world. Listen to the sermon. (The text of this sermon is not available.)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Reconciled Diversity: An Ecumenical Vision for the 21st Century
Clifton Kirkpatrick
Visiting Professor of Ecumenical Studies and Global Ministries
Feb 11, 2010
Convocation
II Corinthians 5:19, NRSV
Ecumenism, while it has had a tremendous impact on the churches and the faithfulness of their witness, has made its most profound impact by offering Christians a fresh insight into the heart of the gospel. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Visiting Professor of Ecumenical Studies and Global Ministries
Feb 11, 2010
Convocation
II Corinthians 5:19, NRSV
Ecumenism, while it has had a tremendous impact on the churches and the faithfulness of their witness, has made its most profound impact by offering Christians a fresh insight into the heart of the gospel. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Monday, December 7, 2009
A Threefold Cord is Not Quickly Broken
December 4, 2009
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Ecclesiastes’ message of human solidarity is an appropriate word for World AIDS Day. It reminds us of God the Creator’s generous grace and of our calling as Christians to a distinctively creaturely faithfulness. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
Ecclesiastes’ message of human solidarity is an appropriate word for World AIDS Day. It reminds us of God the Creator’s generous grace and of our calling as Christians to a distinctively creaturely faithfulness. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Directives, Collectives, and Adaptives in a Changing World
David R. Sawyer
Professor of Ministry
Director of Lifelong Learning and Advanced Degrees
November 13, 2009
Nehemiah 13:15-20
Mark 1:39
Sirach 38 :34b-39:3
Sawyer looks at the present reality of Louisville Seminary in the light of the post-exilic period of the era of Ezra and Nehemiah, finding two different groups, world views, theological positions, and educational models. One group he calls the “Directives,” who hold responsibility and control for the seminary’s life; the second group are the “Collectives” who see the seminary as a free sharing of knowledge and power. He suggests we need to seek a third way, which he calls “Adaptive” which responds to change and loss with experiments, new discoveries and adjustments. He hopes to start a conversation about these differences in the community. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Professor of Ministry
Director of Lifelong Learning and Advanced Degrees
November 13, 2009
Nehemiah 13:15-20
Mark 1:39
Sirach 38 :34b-39:3
Sawyer looks at the present reality of Louisville Seminary in the light of the post-exilic period of the era of Ezra and Nehemiah, finding two different groups, world views, theological positions, and educational models. One group he calls the “Directives,” who hold responsibility and control for the seminary’s life; the second group are the “Collectives” who see the seminary as a free sharing of knowledge and power. He suggests we need to seek a third way, which he calls “Adaptive” which responds to change and loss with experiments, new discoveries and adjustments. He hopes to start a conversation about these differences in the community. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
After the Whirlwind
Christopher Elwood
Professor of Historical Theology
October 16, 2009
Text: Job 23, 24, 40, 41 (selections); 42:1-6
After the whirlwind encounter with God—vividly depicted in the story of Job—how do we live? Is it appropriate to expect a victim of disaster to repent? How can we interpret the winds of life that shake us to the core, and live with faith and integrity responding to God’s close involvement with us and with all of creation? Listen to the sermon.
Professor of Historical Theology
October 16, 2009
Text: Job 23, 24, 40, 41 (selections); 42:1-6
After the whirlwind encounter with God—vividly depicted in the story of Job—how do we live? Is it appropriate to expect a victim of disaster to repent? How can we interpret the winds of life that shake us to the core, and live with faith and integrity responding to God’s close involvement with us and with all of creation? Listen to the sermon.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Edwards-Pressler Lectures
A New Mission?
Dr. Terry C. Muck
Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism
Professor of Missions and World Religions, Asbury Theological Seminary
October 22, 2009
So-called “new missions” come about because of new contexts, not because of a new gospel. It is the demands of a new context that drives us back to Scripture for a fresh look at what God is calling us to be and do in this place and this time. Read the lecture in PDF.
The New Mission Worker
Dr. Frances S. Adeney
William A. Benfield Jr. Professor of Evangelism & Global Missions, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
October 22, 2009
What are the characteristics of the new mission workers? First they perceive the world differently. Second, they see the contradictions of current mission models and why they are not working, and third, they develop new ways of interacting with their context—new methods that bring the gospel alive in their setting. Read the lecture in PDF.
Muck and Adeney are co-authors of Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century (Baker 2009).
Dr. Terry C. Muck
Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism
Professor of Missions and World Religions, Asbury Theological Seminary
October 22, 2009
So-called “new missions” come about because of new contexts, not because of a new gospel. It is the demands of a new context that drives us back to Scripture for a fresh look at what God is calling us to be and do in this place and this time. Read the lecture in PDF.
The New Mission Worker
Dr. Frances S. Adeney
William A. Benfield Jr. Professor of Evangelism & Global Missions, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
October 22, 2009
What are the characteristics of the new mission workers? First they perceive the world differently. Second, they see the contradictions of current mission models and why they are not working, and third, they develop new ways of interacting with their context—new methods that bring the gospel alive in their setting. Read the lecture in PDF.
Muck and Adeney are co-authors of Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century (Baker 2009).
Friday, November 6, 2009
Psalm 65--World Communion
J. Bradley Wigger
Second Presbyterian Church Professor of Christian Education
Second Presbyterian Church Professor of Christian Education
October 22, 2009
Psalm 65
Biblical texts and geological texts differ in many ways but both have a way of rearranging our minds, shifting our sense of time and place if not our sense of home and community. When it comes to the world community, the communion of creation, there is of course a lot of work to be done, a lot of rearranging to do. Borders and boundaries are configured in terrible ways and the earth’s thermostat is out of whack. Our proclivities and transgressions overwhelm us. Listen to the sermon. Read the sermon in PDF.
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