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What to Pray For One Another (2)

The Lord's Day Morning January 22, 2006 Ephesians 3:16b-19 “What to Pray For One Another (2)” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 3. We've been looking at this prayer in Ephesians 3:14-19 for a number of weeks now. We spent the first message in this passage looking just at Paul's words of rationale as to why he was praying. You see those words, “For this reason I pray…for this reason I bow my knees to the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name…”; and from verse 14 all the way down to the first part of verse 16, the Apostle Paul gives us the context of this prayer. He explains his confidence in the abundance of God's riches and what God has done on their…

What to Pray For One Another

The Lord's Day Morning January 15, 2006 Ephesians 3:16b-17 “What to Pray For One Another” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III When we were together last, we were looking at verses 14-16 — to be precise, verses 14 to 16a. We only got half way through verse 16, and we said there that we learned why Paul was praying the prayer; we learned a little bit about to whom Paul was praying the prayer, what Paul thought about this God to whom he was praying; we learned how Paul prayed the prayer, and we learned in light of what great reality Paul had prayed the prayer: that is, we saw that Paul's prayers for blessing on the Ephesian Christians and on you and me were prayers in light of the glorious gift of God's grace to us in Jesus Christ. In Ephesians 1 we explored God's saving plan to…

Praying to Our Father

The Lord's Day Morning January 8, 2006 Communion Sunday Ephesians 3:14-16a “Praying to Our Father” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 3 as we continue to make our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul. We’re going to be looking at verses 14-16 today, but I'd ask you to look at verse 1 first, because we've said all along that the Apostle Paul began this chapter getting ready to pray for the Ephesians. He had started off with the words, “For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles…” and then suddenly this long parenthesis comes from verse 2 through verse 13, in which he seeks to encourage these Ephesian Christians. They were discouraged by the…

You are Gods

The Lord's Day Evening January 1, 2006 Psalm 82 “You are Gods” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Please be seated. We continue working through the Third Book of the Psalms together, and we return to Psalm 82: a short Psalm, a Psalm about God and government. And if you sneaked a peek in The First Epistle at the title of this sermon or looked at your bulletin this morning and were wondering if I had slipped a cog — no, I really did mean to title the sermon You are Gods. You’ll note those words…

What the Bible Says About Christian Giving

The Lord's Day Morning October 30, 2005 II Corinthians 8:9-15 “What the Bible Says About Christian Giving” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Corinthians, chapter eight. This is stewardship season. You have already received in your mail from the church an outline of the church's budget for the year 2006 for ministry and benevolences. Many of you are already involved in giving to the mission work of the church through the…

Doing the Right Thing to Pagans and Strangers

Wednesday Evening June 8, 2005 Leviticus 19Doing the Right Thing to Pagans and Strangers J. Ligon Duncan If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter nineteen. This is one of the best-known chapters in the Book of Leviticus, in part because this is the chapter from which the New Testament gets the phrase “love your neighbor as yourself.” It's part of this final section of Leviticus that concerns the practice of holiness. It's telling believers in…

Finishing the Race

The Lord's Day Morning June 5, 2005 II Timothy 4:5-8 “Finishing the Race” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter four. We’re coming today towards the end of our study of the pastoral letters and of II Timothy. Next Lord's Day, God willing, Derek Thomas will be taking us through II Timothy 4:9-22, a passage in which Paul is relating personal greetings and expressing personal concerns. At first glance it can look…

Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned

Wednesday Evening June 1, 2005 Leviticus 18:1-30 “Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter eighteen. (Phil, we are working through the Book of Leviticus. This summer we're in the holiness code, so you can pray for me as you think of me Wednesday night after Wednesday night.) And we're in a hard passage, as Ed has already said. Let me outline this passage for you before we read it, and…

The Bible Tells Me So

The Lord's Day Morning May 22, 2005 II Timothy 3:16-17 “The Bible Tells Me So” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter three. Last Lord's Day, those of you who are here at the 8:30 service got one point of a three-point sermon, and we're going to continue in that same passage today. We’re going to begin in verse 14, though the focus of our study is going to be on verses 16 and 17. In this glorious section…

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What to Pray For One Another (2)

What to Pray For One Another

Praying to Our Father

You are Gods

What the Bible Says About Christian Giving

Doing the Right Thing to Pagans and Strangers

Finishing the Race

Immoral Sexual Behavior Condemned

The Bible Tells Me So