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RTS 2024 Generosity Report

Many of our Reformed Theological Seminary friends and supporters have probably been receiving the RTS 2024 Generosity Report that was just recently mailed out. It is a testimony to God’s generous provision and to the faithful, sacrificial giving of thousands of our partners. We give thanks for what the Lord has supplied, what he has enabled us to do, and indeed what he has given us the privilege to do for him, for the church, this last year. Below are just a few of the highlights. In 2024, RTS donors contributed $12.9 million to RTS, supporting 2,038 students, and enabling them to take…

175 and Counting: What’s at Stake in the…

The Lord's Day Morning March 4, 2012 “175 and Counting: What's at Stake in the Beginning?” Genesis 1:1 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis chapter 1. We’re going to give our attention today to one particular verse and the truths that we learn from it. Genesis 1:1. It provides such an important foundation for the whole of the Christian faith. And one of the reasons we're going to do that today is to understand what is at stake in what Christians believe about the beginning, what is at stake in what the Bible asserts about creation. And there is indeed much at stake. You may have been following the writings of the new atheists. Do you know who I'm talking about? The four most prominent new…

The Lord Has Done Great Things for Us

If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Psalm 126 as we continue our way through the fifth book of the Psalms together. And as you’re turning there, to Psalm 126, I want to make a lost and found announcement. When Barbara Porter sat down tonight, there was an ancient Bible sitting on this front pew. It's inscribed 1854, affectionately to someone named “Hood.” So if you left a Bible inscribed 1854, a family heirloom, it's sitting right down there on the pew. If you didn't and you know someone looking for it please let us know and we’ll keep it in some place safe. Brister, I’ll commission you to keep your eyes on it so it doesn't go walking off with somebody that it shouldn't go walking off with. But if the proper claimant is here we would…

175 and Counting: Built on the Rock

The Lord's Day Morning February 19, 2012 “175 and Counting: Built on the Rock” Matthew 7:21-29 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 7 as we begin a series on Biblical themes called, “175 and Counting.” I want us to look especially at Jesus’ word in Matthew 7:24, but if you have your Bibles in hand already, turn back to the reading that Billy did for the morning Scripture reading, and if you’ll look at this phrase in 1 John chapter 4, this phrase could sum up the whole sermon this morning: “As He is, so also are we in this world.” John is talking about bearing the moral likeness of our loving God and heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ in this world in the way we live, in our character, in…

He Surrounds His People

If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Psalm 125 as we continue our way through the fifth book of the Psalms. The psalmist again, and we've seen this already several times — look back at Psalm 121. “I lift my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?” And then again in Psalm 123. “To You I lift up my eyes.” As the pilgrims make their way towards Jerusalem, their eyes are on the mountains and the hills and it sets them to thinking, thinking about where their help…

Carried Up into Heaven

The Lord's Day Morning February 12, 2012 “Carried Up into Heaven” Luke 24:50-53 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 24, the last few verses of the gospel of Luke, beginning in verse 50, and we're going to read from verses 50 to 53, as we come to this, the end of our study in the gospel of Luke. In the last sixteen years, it's been our joy to be in the gospels — I've been able to preach through the gospel…

Our Help Is in the Name of the Lord

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 124. In 1582, a Scottish minister named John Durie was imprisoned because of his faithful preaching of the Gospel and when he was released from prison a couple of hundred of his friends and congregants met him at the gates of the prison as they left and they began to walk up the high street of Edinburgh in Scotland. And he and that company of people began to sing that arrangement of Psalm 124. It was said that about 2,000…

Jesus Stood Among Them

The Lord's Day Morning January 22, 2012 “Jesus Stood Among Them” Luke 24:36-49 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 24. We’re going to look at verses 36 to 49 together this morning. The passage begins with the words, “As they were talking about these things.” It's important for us the last time we were in Luke together Jesus was joining the two, downcast disciples, in their walk from Jerusalem,…

Did Not Our Hearts Burn within Us?

The Lord's Day Morning January 15, 2012 “Did Not Our Hearts Burn within Us?” Luke 24:13-35 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the gospel of Luke, the twenty-fourth chapter. We have been in the gospel of Luke together since 2009, which is a good argument for coming to Sunday evening worship so you can hear something other than Luke, but you've almost made it to the end! And we are in one of the great passages in all of…

Looking Until He is Gracious

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 123 as we continue through the fifth book of the Psalms together. And specifically right now, since we came to Psalm 120, we are in those Psalms of Ascent which were used by pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem for festival. As we look at Psalm 123, I want you to notice two or three things and then bear in mind one more. First of all, notice in verses 1 and 2 how the psalmist begins in the singular, “I lift up my eyes,” and…