The Next Frontier (PDF) The Next Frontier (Video)
(Luke 4:14-20; 10:1-2 and I Corinthians 1:18-3)
In his sermon, entitled “The Next Frontier,” President Michael Jinkins addresses the question of clergy shortage and invites us to identify the new frontier and to reflect on our “loss of confidence in the church regarding the gospel of Jesus Christ and to identify our loss of confidence in the church for what it is. …Do we still have confidence in the power of God to seek and to save, to liberate, and to raise from death to new life?” he asks.

The Forgotten Hallmark of Presbyterianism
The enduring challenge of Reformed innovation is to determine what is essential and what isn't, what we cannot afford to lose without losing our very souls, and what we must jettison for the sake of the gospel of Jesus Christ. (PDF)

The Life of the Mind in the Service of God: Why a Thinking Faith Still Matters
(Proverbs 1:20-33; 2:1-11; Romans 11:33-36)
Today, perhaps more than at any time since the Protestant Reformation, we need to recover a commitment to an intellectually rigorous faith, a courageous and imaginative faith, a thinking faith so memorably expressed in John Calvin’s phrase, ‘the life of the mind in the service of God. One of the great challenges of theological education and of the life of faith in our time is to make a case for that quality of thinking faith which does not shrink either from scholarship or from acts of compassion, from the adventure of critical thought or from the call to justice. (PDF)