The service begins with an opening scripture reading from 0:00-1:19. A prayer is offered from 1:19-3:37. A message on ministering to the homosexual community is shared from 3:44-16:45. A closing prayer is offered from 16:58-26:06. This service was organized by the Student Coordinating Council.
After the reading of a poem (start-1:20), M. Ray McKay, Professor of Preaching, speaks about worship being the highest human function and purpose from Romans 8.
The inauguration of Olin Trivette Binkley as the second president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The service begins with a prayer from 0:00-1:01 by Dr. James Archibald Jones. Dr. James Leo Green and Dr. William Claudius Strickland read Isaiah 6:1-13 and various verses from Ephesians 4 from 1:17-7:44. Dr. Porter W. Routh gives the Address from 7:46-30:11. Former president, Dr. Stealey, offers the inaugural prayer from 30:16-34:41. The chapel service sings "The Last Words of David" from 34:59-38:37. Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn performs the Installation of the President from 38:39-44:07. Dr. Binkley gives his inaugural address from 44:11-1:09:17. The chapel performs the seminary hymn form 1:09:40-1:13:19. Dr. W. Perry Crouch gives the closing prayer from 1:13:21-1:15:17. Closing music plays from 1:15:23-1:18:48.
The service begins with the reading of Psalm 27:14 (00:00-00:10) and 3 John 1:1-8 (00:11-02:01). No introduction was given for Olin Trivette Binkley, but he was Professor of Christian Sociology and Ethics and Academic Dean of SEBTS. Focusing on 3 John 1:8, Binkley asks how students in a theological seminary might help the faculty to be productive scholars and creative teachers (02:02-03:49). Firstly, students may do this by affirming participation in a deeper knowledge of the truth about God and its relation to human decisions. They must join the professors in academic scholarship and see both parties as desiring to know the truth (03:50-06:59). Secondly, students and faculty must keep the channels of communication open with each other (07:00-09:54). Thirdly, students must show a readiness to recognize the perils confronting servants of God, namely three: accommodating the gospel to the culture, subordinating what God demands of us to what man expects of us, and practicing cruelty in human relations (09:55-13:23).
Vance Barron was the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, NC. The service begins with prayer from 0:00-1:37. The Scripture reading, Psalm 23 and Colossians 1:15-20, is read from 1:42-4:20. Music plays from 4:25-4:57. An introduction to the speaker is given from 5:24-8:02. Rev. Barron speaks from 8:10-24:57. Barron preaches on mankind and prayer. He notes that God should never be our last option we turn to, but instead our first.
Clarence Jordan was a New Testament Greek scholar. (Jordan was the author of the Cotton Patch paraphrase of the New Testament. He was also instrumental in the founding of Habitat for Humanity. He was also a farmer and the founder of Koinonia Farms.) The service starts with a prayer from 0:00-0:17. Acts 5:27-32 is read from 0:30-1:30. A letter is read from 1:40-2:58. Dr. Jordan speaks from 3:33-40:56. His message is centered on the story in the Book of Daniel of the fiery furnace.
Truman S. Smith was Director of Student Activities. The service begins with prayer from 0:00-3:55. Dr. Smith speaks from 4:00-9:45 and preaches from Habakkuk 2:1. Smith speaks about waiting on the Lord and how the righteous ones will live by their faithfulness to God. He shares that faith is one's victory. God is the companion of the suffering soul in the storm. The service closes with prayer from 9:52-10:37.
Martin Emil Marty was Associate Professor of Church History at the University of Chicago. (He is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on religion in the United States.) The service starts with a word of prayer from 0:00-0:58. Dr. Marty is introduced from 1:12-2:10. His topic is “Relocation of Religion in America.” Dr. Marty speaks from 2:22-51:29. A closing prayer is offered from 51:40-52:02. This is part 3 of a 4 part lecture series.
After a prayer and an introduction (start-5:15), Joseph D. Quillian, a professor from the Perkins School of Theology of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, preaches about focusing on God and not ourselves from Isaiah 6:1-12.
After the reading of Luke 10:25-29 and a prayer (0:16-3:34), Ben C. Fisher, Administrative Assistant and Director of Public Relations, preaches about three aspects of devotion (3:35-end). [The audio skips the reading at the beginning and goes straight to the main speaker.]
