After an introduction by Dr. Stealey (start-3:30), Dr. Roger G. Branch, the Secretary of Missions for the Baptist Convention of North Carolina, shares three lessons he learned about pastoral ministry through his 25 years of experience. The three lessons are maintaining a wholesome self-scrutiny, the need for developing lay people, and there is tremendous value in the relationship to that denomination of which you are a part (3:31-19:01). The service concludes with a hymn (19:02-end).
After the reading of Psalm 93, a prayer, and an introduction (start-3:51), Robert Turner, the pastor of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Wake Forest, NC, shares some thoughts on Saint Andrew the Apostle, patron Saint of Scotland, and the first missionary to India according to Christian tradition. [Audio cuts out before message ends.]
After the reading of John 6:47 and a prayer (start-3:05), Robert Cook Briggs, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, preaches from 2 Timothy 4:2, exhorting students to “Preach the Word.”
After a prayer and an introduction (start-2:56), Robert Cook Briggs, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, talks about Bishop Otto Dibelius and reads his work entitled, “The Last Will and Testament to the German Churches.”
After a prayer (start-1:50), Dr. Robert Cook Briggs, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, discusses the differences between having a personal faith and being religious. and Robert Cook Briggs was Professor of New Testament Interpretation.
After reading Psalm 103:19-22 and a prayer (start-2:45), Richard Knox Young, Associate Professor of Pastoral Care, preaches about not judging one another from Matthew 7:1-5.
After an introduction (start-4:15), Reuben E. Alley, the Editor of the Religious Herald in Virginia, speaks on what he sees as three essentials that make a good institution. Those three essentials are the faculty, a library, and a good spiritual environment.
R. Paul Kercher, a graduate student at SEBTS, re-shares one of his professor’s lectures entitled, “The Greatest Need in the Christian Church is Ecstasy.”
After the reading of Selection 117, a prayer, and an introduction (start-1:10), Pope Alexander Duncan, Professor of Church History, shares a message about the Church and how it relates to the student covenant.
After prayer, a hymn, and a responsive reading (start-8:40), Pope Alexander Duncan, Professor of Church History, spoke about standards and having a conscience, specifically in that time’s culture. He spoke about three ways the conscience could be set, or developed: through tradition, others, and through inner growth.
