Conference Media


Recordings from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary’s annual conference, featuring sermons, lectures, and panel discussions on key theological, historical, and pastoral topics.

Imago Dei: Man, the Image of God

Introduction to Herman Bavinck’s doctrine of the Imago Dei, emphasizing its Trinitarian, covenantal, and marital dimensions. Explores individual, Christ, and new-humanity referents and pastoral implications.

Original Sin and Depravity

Explains Romans 5:12–14: through Adam’s fall sin and death entered the human race, so all are conceived corrupt and under condemnation. Emphasizes Adam as covenant head.

Godly Dominion

Lecture defending ‘godly dominion’ as biblical environmental stewardship from Genesis 1:28 and 2:15. Critiques environmentalism, population-control ideology, and modern creation-care.

Princeton Beginnings

Overview of the founding of U.S. seminaries, focusing on Princeton Theological Seminary and Archibald Alexander’s influence. Emphasizes confessional pastoral training and preserving orthodox pulpit ministry.

Samuel Miller’s Pastoral Theology

Lecture on Samuel Miller, a Princeton professor whose pious, historically grounded theology shaped Presbyterian ministry. Emphasizes his influence on church order, pastoral formation, and confronting recurring errors.

Princeton and the Old Testament

Survey of Old Princeton’s Old Testament faculty (1812–1929): their teaching, methods (languages, textual criticism, hermeneutics), and responses to German critical scholarship.

Scripture, Inerrancy, and the Role of Reason

Defends Old Princeton against charges of Enlightenment rationalism, arguing Hodge and colleagues emphasized whole-person knowledge of Christ rather than mere Scottish realism.

Princeton and Mission

Reflection on Princeton Seminary’s 19th-century missionary zeal, its neglect, and the need for a habitual, theology-rooted commitment to global missions. Opens with Psalm 67.

Ecclesiology: The Hodge/Thornwell Exchange

Lecture surveying the lives and theology of Charles Hodge and James Thornwell, their Princeton ties, covenantal Presbyterianism, pastoral influence, and encouragement to read their works.

19th Century Crosscurrents: Hodge/Finney/Neven

Overview of 19th-century Reformed Protestant cross-currents in America, focusing on Charles Hodge, Charles Finney, and John Nevin, their debates, and theological education context.

Princeton and Evolution/Creation

Lecture tracing Princeton and B.B. Warfield’s defense of biblical authority and inerrancy, and Presbyterian responses to Darwin, geology, the Woodrow controversy, and Genesis interpretations.

Biblical Rationale for a Reformed Seminary

Argues for confessionally grounded resident seminaries, tracing biblical and historical roots (sons of the prophets, mentorship) and critiquing online-only ministerial training.

Theological Assessment of B.B. Warfield

Lecture overview of B.B. Warfield: his life, catechetical formation, Princeton career, devoted marriage, and work on New Testament criticism and biblical inspiration.

Machen and the End of Old Princeton

Overview of Princeton Seminary’s 1929 reorganization, Machen’s 1923 sermon, and the evangelical–liberal conflicts that altered its leadership and identity.

The Person of the Spirit

Examines the personhood of the Holy Spirit, arguing from Scripture and historic creeds (Nicene, Westminster) that the Spirit is a distinct, personal member of the Trinity.

Westminster Standards and the Spirit

A lecture on the Holy Spirit in the Westminster Standards: his deity, personhood, procession (Filioque), relation to Christ and the Word, and his roles in inspiration, illumination, and incarnation.

Regeneration and Conversion

Sermon on the new birth (John 3): explains what regeneration is, why it’s necessary, and how God sovereignly works by the Holy Spirit to bring sinners to life, conversion, and growth.

John Owen on the Spirit

Lecture intro on John Owen’s exhaustive doctrine of the Holy Spirit, urging Trinitarian piety; surveys Owen’s life, Puritan context, Oxford training, and Protestant scholastic method.

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