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Call to Worship Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we worship You through Christ the newborn King. We come in the name and by the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ to pour our prayers and praises out before the throne of grace. We ask that You would meet with us, that You would receive our worship, that You would hear our prayers and answer them. We ask that you would teach us by your word that You would speak to us by Your word as it is read and proclaimed. And we pray that You would make our hearts to be open to that word, to respond to that word. We acknowledge that we are sinners, we deserve condemnation and destruction, and yet in Your mercy through Jesus Christ in His incarnation, in His life, in His ministry, in His death, in His resurrection and ascension is for us, and because He has been…

The Lord's Day Morning December 10, 2006 Luke 1:67-79 “Luke's Christmas Liturgy: Benedictus: Covenant Mercy and Remembrance” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke 1, as we continue to work through Luke's Christmas Liturgy, this set of four songs in the early chapters of The Gospel of Luke that give us a unique window into the life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ from the perspective of those who were around Him…

Call to WorshipO mighty God, Your blessed Son was manifest in the flesh that He might destroy the works of Satan and make us to be the sons and daughters of God most high, and heirs of eternal life. And so we ask that You would grant us that, having this hope we may purify ourselves even as He is pure. That when He shall appear again with power and great glory, we may be made like to Him in His eternal and glorious kingdom, where with You, O Father, and You, O Holy Spirit, He lives and reigns…

The Lord's Day Morning December 23, 2007 Luke 2:1-7 Nine Lessons and Carols The Sixth Lesson The Significance of Christ's Birth” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 2. In the King's College “Service of Nine Lessons and Carols” the Sixth Lesson is introduced with the words, “Luke tells us of the birth of Jesus.” In the King James translation there is no more famous or elegant paragraph in…

The Lord's Day Morning December 18, 2005 Luke 2:1-7 “Lying in a Manger” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke, chapter two. As you do so, I want to ask you a question: What do you think about when you think about the Christmas story? When you hear it read, as we do every year at the Christmas Eve Service, what are the things that you think about? What do you learn? What do you notice? What do you love the most (in particular) about…

The Lord's Day Evening December 12, 2004 Luke 2:8-11 “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, we'll begin in Luke 2 at verse 8. And, if you'll open your hymnals to number 207, we will cross-reference from Luke 2 back to the hymnal again. We've said in this series on the Songs of Christmas that it is our desire to do at least three things. One is that we want you to understand the words of these familiar and beautiful and beloved carols…