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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…

Hated By All On Account of My Name

The Lord's Day Morning July 17, 2011 “Hated By All On Account of My Name” Luke 21:5-24 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. We’re in the twenty-first chapter as we continue our way through this gospel together, and we've come to a section in Luke in which Luke records Jesus’ teaching to His disciples about the end, about the future, about what is to come. It's provoked by a conversation that Jesus overhears, to which He makes a comment, which then causes the disciples to ask Him a question that gets Him into the issue of the future. But I want to make one simple observation before we begin to read the passage and that's this — whenever the Bible begins to talk about prophecy,…

Don’t Fake Religion

The Lord's Day Morning July 10, 2011 “Don't Fake Religion” Luke 20:45 – Luke 21:4 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 20 as we continue our way together through the gospel of Luke. Today, we come to the end of Luke 20 and verse 45 and we’ll read through to Luke 21 verse 4. You’ll see why in a moment. The last time we were together in Luke we saw Jesus indicting the theology of the scribes and the Pharisees. They had challenged Him, yet again, as to His own theology, with a question. He had answered their question and then He had questioned them with His own question which they could not answer, and in so doing, Luke shows us their deficient theology of the Messiah and their deficient…

What Jesus Believed About the Resurrection

The Lord's Day Morning July 3, 2011 “What Jesus Believed About the Resurrection” Luke 20:27-44 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 20. We’ll be looking at verses 27 to 44 today as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke. Let me remind you that the passage that we're going to read today is the third time in Luke 20 where Jesus’ authority and teaching is challenged by the scribes and the Sadducees and the religious leaders in Jerusalem. You remember the first time happens in the early verses of Luke 20 when Jesus cleanses the temple and He is challenged, “By what authority do You do this?” And in the course of His response, He not only responds to the challenge to His authority, but He…

O God, Speak Up!

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 109. Psalm 109 is a hard psalm. It is the last of the imprecatory psalms. That is, it is a psalm of imprecation of curse. It calls down God's curse on the wicked. And it is well that it is the last of the imprecatory psalms because it is perhaps the strongest and certainly the most sustained of the songs of curse. There are something like twenty-four curses called down in verses 6 to 20 in the middle section of the psalm in…

Rendering to Caesar and God

The Lord's Day Morning June 26, 2011 “Rendering to Caesar and God” Luke 20:19-26 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 20 as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke together. The last time we were together we looked at the parable of the wicked tenants. The event that we're studying today happens on Tuesday or Wednesday perhaps, of the final week of Jesus’ earthly ministry before His crucifixion on…

Determined to Worship

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 108 as we continue our way through the fifth book of the Psalms together. And the last time we were together, we were at Psalm 107 and so we continue tonight in the next psalm. This psalm, as some of you may know, is put together from two other psalms in the Psalter. It has parts of Psalm 57, verses 7 to 11 in it, and it has parts of Psalm 60, verses 5 to 12 in it. And David has put it together. Those previous psalms, perhaps…

Rejection

The Lord's Day Morning June 19, 2011 “Rejection” Luke 20:9-18 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 20 as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke together. Now let's look at Luke 20, verses 9 to 18. And remember, we're in the final week of Jesus’ life. This parable is told in each of the three synoptic gospels — Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record this parable. Not all of the parables that occur…

O Give Thanks Unto the Lord

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 107 as we begin our journey through the fifth book of the Psalms together. This psalm, that begins the fifth book of the Psalter, is a call for the redeemed to give thanks. The context is the return of the people of God from exile and you see that in the very first words. The Lord has redeemed them from trouble and done what? “Gathered them in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the…

In the Temple

The Lord's Day Morning June 5, 2011 “In the Temple” Luke 19:45-20:8 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 19. We’ll begin right at the end of the chapter at verse 45 and continue on to Luke 20 verse 8. It is Monday of what we call Holy Week. On the Sunday of that week, Jesus has triumphantly entered into Jerusalem and His followers have shouted “Hosanna, to the One who comes in the name of the Lord!” as He enters in…