Luke 8

The Lord's Day Morning November 15, 2009 Luke 8:1-15 “Have You Heard the Word?” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 8. We’re going to be looking at the first few verses of this chapter and you may want to sneak a peek back to the last few verses of chapter 7 because something that happens in verses 2, or 2 and 3, in Luke chapter 8, or something that is described in Luke 8, 2 and 3, relates to the story of the woman, the immoral woman, the prostitute that we met last week that had come to thank Jesus for changing her life and who had been so moved by seeing the Savior of her soul that she had begun to weep. And then she looked down and noticed that her tears were falling on His feet as He was reclined at the table.…

The Lord's Day Morning November 29, 2009 Luke 8:16-21 “Take Care How You Listen” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 8. We’ll be looking at verses 16 to 21 today. As you turn to that passage I would remind you that this exhortation of Jesus to you and me, to His disciples, is on the heels of His parable of the sower and the essence of His parable of the sower in Luke 8:1-15 may be discerned in and distilled from verse 15 — “The seed is the good soil. These are the ones who have heard the Word in an honest and good heart and hold it fast and bear fruit with perseverance.” He has been speaking to His disciples about what the Word is designed to produce in our lives and how we know whether we have truly received…