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RTS and the Current State of Theological Education

Some of you may have seen this important article over at The Gospel Coalition about the decline and relocation of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) by Collin Hansen, who is a graduate of the school. Reformed Theological Seminary has been friends with TEDS for many years. Over the years, a number of our faculty have done their studies there before coming to RTS, and a number of our graduates have gone on to do doctoral work there. We wish TEDS all the best in this new stage of their institutional life. The last twenty years have been tough for accredited graduate theological education…

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Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning August 19, 2007 Philippians 1:29-30 “Not Only to Believe, But to Suffer” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one, verse 29. We've been working through Paul's letter to the Philippians, and we said when we came to verse 27 that we’d gotten to the central section of this book. It begins with a very important exhortation that we live in accordance with the gospel of Christ. In fact, if you look at Philippians 1:27, you’ll see Paul's words: “Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.” Paul's big point in that exhortation is that we are to live a life that fits the gospel. And what he does from this point (in verse 27) all the way to chapter…

The Laws of the Land

Wednesday Evening August 15, 2007 Numbers 15:1-41 “The Laws of the Land” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers 15, as we continue to work our way through this great book of Moses and the story of Israel in the wilderness. We’ve noted for the last several weeks that Numbers 11-14 pictures Israel grumbling and complaining and murmuring and rebelling. And in fact, the last time we were together, in Numbers 14, we saw a cycle of rebellion and intercession and pardon, followed by further rebellion. In the book of Judges you have the pattern of sin and then the consequences of sin, and then repentance, and then restoration, and then the cycle goes over again. But they don’t even get that far in Numbers 14. It goes from sin…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning August 12, 2007 Philippians 1:27-28 “Living In a Manner Worthy of the Gospel (3)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one, as we continue to work through this great book together. Philippians 1:27 and 28 contain the first major exhortation in the main section of this letter. The main section of this letter runs from this verse (Philippians 1:27) all the way to about Philippians 2:18. In that main section of the letter, the Apostle Paul is exhorting the Philippians, and he's exhorting you and me, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to live lives that are worthy of the gospel. The whole section is an exhortation to distinctive Christian conduct. He wants us to live…

Rebellion and Rebuke

Wednesday Evening August 8, 2007 Numbers 14:1-45 “Rebellion and Rebuke” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III …Numbers, chapter 14, we are in a section of the book in which we have repeatedly seen Israel grumble and rebel against the Lord. And if you’ll remember the passage that we quoted from the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 10, this is precisely how he cites the activity of Israel in I Corinthians as a warning to the Corinthian Christians not to grumble. He cites the grumbling of the Israelites,…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning August 5, 2007 Philippians 1:27-28 “Living In a Manner Worthy of the Gospel (2)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one, as we continue to work our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. The last time we were together in this book, a couple of weeks ago, we were looking at verses 27-28. That's where we're going to be today. In fact, the last time we were together, we…

Spies in the Land

Wednesday Evening August 1, 2007 Numbers 13:1-33 “Spies in the Land” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III The spies are in the land and they discover giants, and it is dismaying to them. John Bunyan leads us to sing about that in that hymn, even as Moses leads us to lament the way the children of Israel responded to this particular challenge. This is one of those pivotal passages in the book of Numbers. As we’ve worked through this book together, coming to chapters 11 and 12 we have begun to see…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning July 22, 2007 Philippians 1:27-28 “Living In a Manner Worthy of the Gospel” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians 1:27. Now, it may not show in your particular translation a break, although some of you may well have a new heading that has been inserted by the editor of your particular edition of the Scripture, but something big happens between Philippians 1:26 and Philippians 1:27. Even though there's…

Murmuring in the House

Wednesday Evening July 18, 2007 Numbers 12:1-16 “Murmuring In the House” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, let me ask you to turn with me to Numbers 12. You will remember, back in Numbers 11 — and you might want to let your eyes fall on the first fifteen verses and the last four or five verses of Numbers 11, because in Numbers 11, we had two incidents which perfectly illustrate the concerns that the Apostle Paul spoke to the Corinthians about in I Corinthians 10:1-13, when…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning July 15, 2007 Philippians 1:25-26 “Progress, Joy, Confidence” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Philippians, chapter one. Today we're going to be looking at verses 25-26. We've been in this section of Philippians for over a month now, and I want to remind you again of the outline of the passage before us. Though our concentration today is going to be on verses 25-26, it will be helpful to you, I…

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