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A Father’s Prodigal Love for a Prodigal

The Lord's Day Morning December 19, 2010 Luke 15:11-32 “A Father's Prodigal Love for a Prodigal” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care. We will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the people. We will sing to You among the nations, for Your great mercy reaches to the clouds and Your truth to the heavens. Let us worship God! Our Lord and our God, we come to adore You through Christ Jesus our Lord. And we adore the Lord Jesus Christ whom You, the Father, gave for our salvation and who willingly took our place, stood under Your wrath, bore it all on the cross, so that all those throughout this world who trust on Him alone for salvation as He…

The Message of Repentance Clothed in Tragedies

The Lord's Day Morning September 26, 2010 Luke 13:1-5 “The Message of Repentance Clothed in Tragedies” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care. So let us worship Him! If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 13, and as you turn to Luke 13:1-5, you may want to allow yourself to peek back to the final verses of Luke 12 because they will help you understand the very first words that are recorded by Luke in Luke 13:1 where he says, “There were some present at that very time.” He's making not only a temporal linkage between what Jesus is going to say in Luke 13:1 to what He's just said in Luke 12, but…

Hidden and Revealed

The Lord's Day Morning April 25, 2010 Luke 10: 17-24 “Hidden and Revealed” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III As we prepare for worship, especially in light of our subject, I want to give you these words from J.C. Ryle, the great evangelical Anglican bishop of Liverpool. He says this: “Nothing so blinds the eyes of our souls to the beauty of the Gospel as the vain delusive idea that we are not so ignorant and wicked as some and that we have got a character which will bear inspection. Happy is the man who has learned to feel that he is wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. To see that we are bad is the first step towards being really good. To feel that we are ignorant is the first beginning of all saving knowledge.” This is one of the things that Jesus emphasizes in the very…

Pondering These Things in Our Hearts

The Lord's Day Morning February 8, 2009 Luke 2:8-20 “Pondering These Things in Our Hearts” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III We’ll be looking at verses 8-20 today — a passage very familiar to us, especially at Christmastime. It's been a tradition for many years at First Presbyterian Church during the family Christmas Eve Carol Service for the whole of Luke 2:1-20 to be read in the beautiful old King James or Authorized Version, and so there's no telling how many times many of you have…

Grace, with you Spirit

The Lord's Day Morning June 8, 2008 Philippians 4:21-23 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “Grace, with Your Spirit” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, let me invite you to turn with me to Philippians 4:21. After a year together in this glorious letter, we have come to our final exposition of Paul's word to the Philippians. Last Lord's Day morning we were looking at Philippians…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 11, 2008 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “Two Ways to Live” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I'd like to invite you all to have a subversive Mother's Day. What I mean by that is that we live in a culture that does not value motherhood, and it doesn't believe in a biblical view of male/female role relationships. And I would invite you to subvert that in…

Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ…

The Lord's Day Morning May 4, 2008 Philippians 3:12-16 Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ and the Peace that Passes Understanding: A Study of Philippians “Pressing On Toward the Goal” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Dr. Duncan: “O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; His steadfast love, His covenant faithfulness, His lovingkindness, endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from trouble and gathered from the lands, from the east and…

Hymns of the Faith: Amazing Grace

Hymns of the Faith “Amazing Grace!” I Chronicles 17:17 A Presentation of First Presbyterian Church Jackson, Mississippi With Dr. Ligon Duncan, Dr. Derek Thomas, and Dr. Bill Wymond Dr. Wymond: Good morning! This is “Hymns of the Faith”, brought to you by Jackson's First Presbyterian Church. The minister of the First Presbyterian Church is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Stay tuned for “Hymns of the Faith.” And now here with “Hymns of the Faith” is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Dr. Duncan: Thank you,…

The New Generation

Wednesday Evening January 23, 2008 Numbers 26 With God in the Wilderness The New Generation Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III I would invite you to take your Bibles in hand and turn with me to Numbers 26. This is a long chapter. It is a chapter in which Moses is commanded to do another census. You will remember that before the wilderness journey began, in Sinai, Moses had been commissioned to take a census of the people. And we were reminded in that census how faithful God had been to His promises to the…

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