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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…

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 from the west, from the north and from the south.” Let us worship God. Dr. Thomas: Now let's come before God in prayer. Let us pray. O Lord our God, we bow once again in Your presence. It is a fitting posture that our hearts are bowed, our hands stretched out in faith to lay hold upon You as You…

Not Ashamed and Holding Fast

The Lord's Day Morning March 13, 2005 II Timothy 1:12-18 “Not Ashamed and Holding Fast” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. It's inspiring to think that Christians have been using those words for 900 years to express their praise to the Lord Jesus Christ, and that the words that we had the privilege to hear read and which we sung back to God have been used by believers for 3,000 years to express their praise to God. If you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me to II Timothy, chapter one, as we continue our way through this last of Paul's letters. Paul is in prison. He is awaiting what will eventually be his death by execution for his fidelity to God, to Christ and to the gospel. And he is writing his beloved son in the Lord, Timothy–and this past Lord's Day you had…

Blessing God

I'd invite you to turn with me to Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, right before the book of Revelation, as we look one last time at this short letter. We've been in the book of Jude for the last four weeks, and now we're in the final two verses. And in those two verses, we come face-to-face with a doxology. Now we sing a doxology that goes something like this, “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” That, you can see immediately, is a doxology. That is, it is a…

What Is a Christian?

May 9th, 2004 The Faith Once Delivered: Five Lessons in Jude: Jude 1-2 What is a Christian? If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to the book of Jude, right at the end of the New Testament, before the book of Revelation. Over the next five weeks we’ll have the opportunity to study the entirety of this little book of Jude in some detail. It's a unique book in many ways. It was written by a man who was a half-brother of Jesus Christ, our Savior, Jesus the Messiah. It…

The Test of Perseverance

1 John 2:24-28The Test of Perseverance Jesus’ words to the church in the early chapters and verses of the book of Revelation prepare us well for the word that we hear from 1 John, and I'd invite you to take your Bibles, if you have them, and turn with me to 1 John chapter 2. We’ll be looking at the 24th to the 28th verses today, and so perhaps it would be helpful to review some of the highpoints of what we have learned so far in our study of 1 John 1 and 2. In 1 John 1, John is…

Be Patient

James 5:7-12Be Patient If you have your bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to James Chapter 5 verse 7. “Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not complain, brethren, against one another, that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the judge is…

Warning to Aspiring Teachers

James 3:1-2Warning to Aspiring Teachers If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to James chapter 3 as we continue through this book. In the very first chapter James spoke of trials and how the Christian would respond to them. How God uses those trials. In the end of James, chapter 1, he talked about how to tell the difference between someone who professes to be a Christian but who is not, and someone who professes to be a Christian and is, in fact, a disciple of the Lord…

The Christian and Trails

James 1:2-18The Christian and Trials “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of…

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