How Jesus Makes Disciples

The Lord's Day Morning May 10, 2009 Luke 5:1-11 “How Jesus Makes Disciples” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 5. As we continue to work our way through this Gospel, let me remind you that the last time we were with the Lord Jesus in this Gospel, at the end of Luke 4, Jesus was preaching in Galilee and in Judea and was proclaiming the kingdom of God. We talked about what that meant for His proclamation to be about the kingdom of God, and we talked about how that was a theme in the Gospel of Luke. Today, we encounter Jesus in a great miracle. He is teaching the multitudes on the shore of what the other Gospels call most frequently the Sea of Galilee (which John sometimes will refer to as Tiberias, which Luke…

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 the way you celebrate Mother's Day today. Celebrate Mother's Day in an explicitly Christian way, in such a way to subvert this false and alien culture in which we live. Yesterday I received the weekly newsletter from the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, South Carolina, where our…

Christ Confounds with the Word of the Kingdom, Part 2:…

If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 22. Last week we began a study of a series of new conflicts and exchanges between Jesus and the religious leaders of Israel. In each of those conflicts and exchanges He reveals His divine wisdom and goodness while He simultaneously exposes the evil of their hearts. In Matthew 22, verses 15 through 22, which we studied last week, Jesus faced and answered a question meant for entrapment put to Him by the Pharisees and Herodians. This week the Sadducees are the questioners. The pattern is the same though. They ask a question, Jesus answers, even while He diagnoses their hearts and then the crowd responds. So we turn then to Matthew chapter 22 beginning in verse 23. Let’s hear God’s holy word. Matthew 22:23-33 Our…

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