William Randall Lolley was the 3rd president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The service begins with organ music (00:00-05:13). President Lolley gives community updates and a word on the conflict in Northern Ireland, and he reads from John 20:24-29 and gives a word of prayer (05:14-12:51). The choir sings a song of worship (12:52-15:09). Lolley explains the story of Thomas doubting Christ’s resurrection, and he speaks of the significance of Christ’s humility in confronting our stubbornness (15:10-26:21). Lolley ends the service with a word of prayer (26:22-26:57).
After a prayer and an introduction (start-2:06), Olin Trivette Binkley, the Academic Dean and Professor of Christian Sociology and Ethics (and later President of SEBTS), preaches about the relationship between the resurrection and the moral struggle in which we are all engaged from 1 Corinthians 15:51-58.
