Dr. Sydnor Lorenzo Stealey, the first President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, talks about being careful in speech and carefully defines several important theological concepts.
After the reading of 2 Timothy 3:16 and an introduction (start-2:20), Dr. Sydnor Lorenzo Stealey, the first President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, emphasises the students' relationship to the school from Philippians 2:2-5, as it relates to the Covenant of the Student Body (2:21-end).
After a prayer and a song (start-9:50), Stewart Albert Newman, Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion, gives a speech entitled “This is A Lost World” (9:51-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 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 a prayer and an introduction (start-5:15), Olin Trivette Binkley, the Academic Dean and Professor of Christian Sociology and Ethics (and later President of SEBTS), speaks about the purpose of theological education from 1 Timothy 1:5.
