With God in the Wilderness (30) Conspiracy to Curse

Filter Resources:

With God in the Wilderness (30) Conspiracy to Curse

The Lord’s Day Evening Numbers 22:1-21 “Conspiracy to Curse” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you’ll open your Bibles to Numbers 22, we’ll be looking at verses 1 to 21 together tonight as we continue to make our way through Moses’ great book of the wilderness journey. The next three chapters of Numbers contain some of this book’s finest literary material and theological teaching. The stories here concerning Balaam and Balak and the attempt to curse Israel are gripping and they are subtle. The story is filled with hilarious satire and irony, and deadly serious encounters with God and with truth. The story has unexpected twists and turns, and it leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat trying to figure out what’s going to happen. And then sometimes, even when…

Hymns of the Faith: Great is Thy Faithfulness

Hymns of the Faith “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” Lamentations 3:22, 23 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 Faith” brought to you by First Presbyterian Church. The minister of First Presbyterian Church is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Stay tuned for “Hymns of Faith.”…And now here with “Hymns of Faith” is Dr. Ligon Duncan. Dr. Duncan: Thank you, Bill Wymond. It's a delight to be with you and with Derek Thomas this morning, talking about hymns again. Welcome to “Hymns of the Faith,” where we talk about the great hymns of the Christian church. Christians live and die singing, and it's our joy to talk about the great songs that Christians have…

Hymns of the Faith: A Mighty Fortress is Our God

Hymns of the Faith “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” Psalm 46:1 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 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, Bill Wymond. This is Ligon Duncan with Derek Thomas on “Hymns of the Faith,” and we're again joining to talk about some of the greatest devotional treasures of the ages that have been bequeathed to us in the Christian hymnals that we possess and sing. The Christian faith is a singing faith, and…

Hymns of the Faith: Our God Our Help in Ages Past

Hymns of the Faith “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past” Psalm 90 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.” Dr. Duncan: Thank you, Bill Wymond. This is Ligon Duncan, along with Derek Thomas…

Spies in the Land

Wednesday Evening August 1, 2007 Numbers 13:1-33 “Spies in the Land” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III The spies are in the land and they discover giants, and it is dismaying to them. John Bunyan leads us to sing about that in that hymn, even as Moses leads us to lament the way the children of Israel responded to this particular challenge. This is one of those pivotal passages in the book of Numbers. As we’ve worked through this book together, coming to chapters 11 and 12 we have begun to see…

Defiled

Wednesday Evening February 7, 2007 Numbers 5:1-11 “Defiled” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Numbers 5; and if you don't, there should be a sheet somewhere near you on one of the tables that has a copy of the whole of the chapter of Numbers 5. I want to say ahead of time that though I began today expecting to preach on this whole chapter, I'm only going to preach on the first ten verses, because the final verses of this chapter have so many complicating…

Priests, Duties, Firstborn

Wednesday Evening January 31, 2007 Numbers 3:1-51 “Priests, Duties, Firstborn” Dr. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Numbers, chapter 3. There should be a sheet somewhere near by you that has the text of that whole chapter. And there should also be an outline — at least, an outline that recounts what we have done so far, and also provides a diagram of the organization or the arrangement of the tribes and the priests which we read about last…

Restore Us, O God

Please be seated. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 80 as we continue to make our way through the Third Book of the Psalms. Last week as we studied Psalm 79 together, we saw the lament of the Psalmist for the fall of Jerusalem and the Southern Kingdom with it. Tonight we move from that concern in Psalm 79 with the fall of Jerusalem back a couple of centuries in time, to the fall of Samaria in the late eighth century. And the theme of this Psalm is this repeated…

Comfort in Trouble

If you have your Bibles, please open them with me to Psalm 77. Edward Young once provocatively said, “Among my lists of blessings infinite stands this at the foremost: that my heart has bled.” The Psalmist who wrote this Psalm would have understood that, but that stands in stark contrast to the comfortable spirituality of our own age. In our own day, we suffer from a superficial spirituality. It often sustains us in crisis only by denial, only by pretending that it's not happening.…

Search the Site

Subscribe for Updates