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Suffering – Him, Too?

Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? Suffering…Sovereignty…and Sanctification Winter Luncheon Series “Him Too?” The Quandary and Questions of Suffering January 31, 2008 Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Friends, I want to welcome you to the fourth and final of our series of luncheons dealing with the issue of suffering. You are the few and the faithful today! You have persevered till the end, and certainly for you there is a crown of gold stored up! Let me remind us a little bit about where we've come from over the course of our weeks together. We wanted to ask four questions to give us some sort of structure and guidance: Why Me? What For? How So? and, Him, Too? “Why me?” so that we could allow the cry of the heart to be lifted up to the Lord just like it so often is in the Bible, and…

Succession Plan

Wednesday Evening January 30, 2008 Numbers 27:12-23 Numbers — With God in the Wilderness: “Succession Plan” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 27. Last Wednesday night we were in Numbers 26, looking at a long list of the heads of families of the tribes of Israel; and these names were being listed not only for the purposes of selective service, but especially for the purpose of inheritance. And therein lies an irony with the passage we’re reading tonight. In Numbers 26, all the heads of families of the tribes of Israel are being numbered so that the land, which God had promised to Abraham and to his descendents, which the children of Israel were about to enter into, could be apportioned out appropriately to those…

Hymns of the Faith: O the Deep, Deep, Love of Jesus

Hymns of the Faith “O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus!” A Presentation of First Presbyterian Church Jackson, Mississippi With Dr. Ligon Duncan, Dr. Derek Thomas, and Dr. Bill Wymond Dr. Wymond: Good morning! This is “Hymns of the Faith,” brought to you by Jackson's First Presbyterian Church. The minister of the First Presbyterian Church is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Stay tuned for “Hymns of the Faith.” And now here with “Hymns of the Faith” is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Dr. Duncan: Thank you, Bill Wymond. This is Ligon Duncan, and we are here for “Hymns of the Faith” and delighted to be here talking about these great songs of the last two thousand years that have instilled hope in the hearts of thousands of Christians and have expressed our faith in God, our love for Christ, our belief…

With God in the Wilderness (37): Inheritance Laws

The Lord’s Day Evening January 27, 2008 Numbers 27:1-14 With God in the Wilderness “Inheritance Laws” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 27, and I’d also invite you to take a peek at chapter 26 on your way to Numbers 27. The last time we were in Numbers together, this past Wednesday night, we were looking at the long list of names of the heads of families of the tribes in Israel in that great…

Suffering – How So?

Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? Suffering…Sovereignty…and Sanctification Winter Luncheon Series “HOW SO?” The Quandary and Questions of Suffering January 24, 2008 Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Thank you, Donna, and thank you, Ashley, and all the others who have worked to put this Thursday luncheon series together. I want to welcome you all to the third of four Thursday luncheons at First Presbyterian Church on the subject of “Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? —…

The New Generation

Wednesday Evening January 23, 2008 Numbers 26 With God in the Wilderness The New Generation Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I would invite you to take your Bibles in hand and turn with me to Numbers 26. This is a long chapter. It is a chapter in which Moses is commanded to do another census. You will remember that before the wilderness journey began, in Sinai, Moses had been commissioned to take a census of the people. And we were reminded in that census how faithful God had been to His promises to the…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning January 20, 2008 Philippians 2:8 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “The Obedience of the Death of Christ” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 2. We’re going to be looking at verses 5-8 today. We've been studying this great letter for a number of weeks, and we have been in this section of this great letter…

Suffering – What For?

Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? Suffering…Sovereignty…and Sanctification Winter Luncheon Series “Why For? The Quandary and Questions of Suffering” January 17, 2008 Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Good afternoon, folks! Please continue to eat and drink and I will get started, to honor and respect your time. Thanks for being here with us in this series of talks on “Does Grace Grow Best in Winter? Suffering…Sovereignty…and Sanctification.” I do want to mention some books. We've got a…

Zeal of Phinehas

Wednesday Evening Numbers 25:1-18 Numbers — With God in the Wilderness: “The Zeal of Phinehas” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please open your Bibles to Numbers 25. The last time we were in Numbers together, we were finishing the story of Balaam. And the last we heard of Balaam (or so we thought) was in these words in Numbers 24:25 — “Then Balaam rose and went back to his place.” And all of us all along had been a bit puzzled about this Balaam character because, for instance, in Numbers 24…

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