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Thinking and Living Like a Stewardship

Stewardship Sunday 1 Corinthians 4:2 Thinking and Living Like a Steward Turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 4. The second verse of the fourth chapter of 1 Corinthians is our text for today. The Stewardship Committee a number of months ago landed upon this as the theme verse for our Stewardship Commitment for 2004, and since today is our annual Commitment Sunday, we're provided by looking at this verse with another opportunity to reflect upon our financial commitment to the support of the work of the church. Now, for the last several years, the deacons and elders of our church have emphasized several things that they’re repeating this morning. They've emphasized the heart in giving: that is, that our giving to the church is a matter of the heart; it's a spiritual issue.…

Biblical Priorities For the Life of the Church (14)…

The Lord's Day Morning April 15, 2007 Communion Sunday I Corinthians 10:31 Qualities of a Healthy Local Church Glorifying God, Loving Others, Blessing the Nations Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to open them to I Corinthians 10:31. We’re going to look at five passages this morning, but slightly out of order. Today we are coming to the final message in a series on the qualities of a biblical local church. We've been looking at this over the course, really, of six months now (from time to time with some interruptions in between)…at various biblical descriptions of the qualities, or characteristics, or marks, of a congregation of believers that are living together according to God's word. And we've said a number of different things…

Thinking and Living Biblically in a Gender-nuteral…

Thinking and Living Biblically in a Gender-neutral Society Biblical Manhood and Womanhood seriesFirst Presbyterian ChurchJackson, MSDr. J. Ligon Duncan 1 Corinthians 11:2-16Christ's Example I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 Corinthians, chapter 11. In this study we've been promoting a biblical view of male/female role relationships that we call complementarianism. That is, that God has created men and women equal in their essential dignity and human personhood, but different and complementary in their function with male headship and in the home and believing community, the church, being understood as a part of God's created design. So, men and women are equal in Christ but they are distinct and they have different functions in the home and in the church. This view is…

I Believe inthe Communion of the Saints

The Communion of the Saints1 Corinthians 12:7; 3:21-23 Turn with me in your Bibles to 1 Corinthians 12: 7. We are working our way through the Apostles’ Creed and we come today to the affirmation that we believe in the communion of the saints. Just as we saw last week that there are different views of what it means to say, “I believe in the holy catholic Church” there are also different views of what it means to say, “I believe in the communion of the saints.” Some churches teach that…

On the Third Day He Rose Again

The Apostles' CreedOn the Third Day He Rose Again1 Corinthians 15:1-11Dr. Derek Thomas We are continuing our studies in the Apostles’ Creed. We come this morning to that statement of the Creed in the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. On the third day He rose again from the dead according to the Scriptures. I wanted to start this morning by saying that I disagreed with Dr. Duncan on some aspect of this point of the Creed. Many of you will remember that last week in my absence he…

The Exaltation of Christ in the Resurrection

Easter 2003The Exaltation of Christ in the ResurrectionI Corinthians 15:1-14 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to I Corinthians 15, as we consider the exaltation of Christ in His resurrection. During the Easter season, many Christians turn their minds to the meaning of the resurrection, and they ask questions like, “How is this significant for my life? What does the resurrection of Christ have to say to me?” And that's a good thing, but we will ask a different…

Biblical Priorities For the Life of the Church (7)…

The Lord's Day Morning January 14, 2007 I Corinthians 15:1-4 “The Biblical Gospel” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We’re continuing our series in which we are studying the biblical priorities for the life of our church, and we've been asking throughout this series what are the qualities, what are the marks, what are the things that characterize a healthy local church? Now, our desire is not simply to sort of spell out the things that we are most interested in having in our local church,…

I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body

1 Corinthians 15:12-19“I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body” If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to 1 Corinthians 15. We’re continuing to work our way through to the Apostles’ Creed, and we now come to that affirmation in the Creed which says, “I believe in the resurrection of the body.” Here in 1 Corinthians 15, the Apostle Paul is dealing with some confused Corinthian Christians on this very issue. It appears that there are some people in Corinth who…

The Reason for Giving

The Lord's Day Morning November 6, 2011 “The Reasons for Giving” 1 Chronicles 29:9 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan If you’d take your Bibles in hand and turn with me to 1 Chronicles 29, we have been working our way through the gospel of Luke and we're going to take a break this morning to look at the passage that our Deacon's Stewardship Committee has chosen to be the theme during our stewardship season. We do that because this is a teaching moment, not because if I preach a…

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