What the Bible Says About Christian Giving

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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 Faith Promise Budget, and the next Lord's Day, November 6, we will have an opportunity to commit ourselves to the support of the church's ministry and benevolent giving for the next year, and so it's appropriate that we pause and look at what the Bible says about Christian giving. I've…

Rest for the Land

Wednesday Evening August 17, 2005 Leviticus 25:1-7 “Rest for the Land” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Leviticus, chapter 25. We are coming to the end of this great book. If you’ll allow yourself to turn over just a couple of pages, you come to Leviticus 27, the final chapter, and, God willing we’ll be in that chapter on the first Wednesday night of September. And then, once we have completed this Book of Leviticus on Wednesday nights, Derek is going to begin to work us back through the Gospel of Mark, and I'm going to move to the third book of the Psalms. You remember our order that we've been sort of moving through is Genesis, then the first book of the Psalms; then Exodus, the second book of the Psalms; and now…

God’s Commands for Stewards

The Lord's Day Morning November 7, 2004 I Timothy 6:17-19 “God's Commands for Stewards” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Open your Bibles with me to First Timothy, chapter six, as we continue to work our way through this book. I was sorely tempted to preach on Psalm 24:1, the verse chosen by the Deacons’ Stewardship Committee, because it does so beautifully capture the emphasis of the theme of our Stewardship Season, which is “The Earth Belongs Unto the Lord.” Everything is God's, and that controls our approach to everything that we have; not just what we give to the church, but the way we view…our attitudes toward every use of everything that we have. But, in God's providence, as we have been working our way through First Timothy, we have come to the passage where…

Thinking and Living Like a Stewardship

Stewardship Sunday 1 Corinthians 4:2 Thinking and Living Like a Steward Turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 4. The second verse of the fourth chapter of 1 Corinthians is our text for today. The Stewardship Committee a number of months ago landed upon this as the theme verse for our Stewardship Commitment for 2004, and since today is our annual Commitment Sunday, we're provided by looking at this verse with another opportunity to reflect upon our financial commitment to the support of the…

The Reason for Christian Stewardship

Psalm 100:3The Reasons of Christian StewardshipStewardship 2004 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 100. You’ll want to be ready to follow with me through a number of passages today. Our commitment Sunday is on the first Sunday of November. That's when we traditionally make our commitments for the support of the church's work and worship for the year to come, and usually around that time we do some teaching on that subject. It's an important…

Priestly Garments

Exodus 38:21 — 39:31Priestly Garments If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the Book of Exodus and to the chapter 38:21. We are just three or so sermons away from the end of this book, and tonight we're really at our last long reading. Next readings are going to be shorter, concentrating on some specific aspects of the final couple of chapters of the book. Tonight we're going to pick up in chapter 38, verse 21 where Moses begins to account for the cost of the…

Robbing God

Malachi 3:8-12Robbing God Stewardship Sunday, November 3, 2002 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn to the book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, to the third chapter. The stewardship committee has chosen Malachi 3:10 as this year's stewardship theme verse and it seems appropriate to look at that passage and its context in some detail. Malachi prophesied during what Old Testament scholars called the Persian Period. That is the period of time in which the exiles,…

The Joy of Stewardship

Matthew 25:14-30The Joy of Stewardship O, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good. His steadfast love endures forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from trouble. Let us worship God. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light, O God, and this is all of Your doing, all of Your grace, and we have been called out of the world and into your kingdom by Your grace. A way into your presence has been provided by Your grace. You have united us savingly to the…

Instructions to Comfortable Christians about Wealth

I Timothy 6:17-19Instructions to Comfortable Christians about Wealth If You have your bibles, I'd invite You to turn with me to First Timothy, chapter 6. That picture from Vaughan Williams, of the thousands upon thousands “streaming from ocean's farthest coast, into the gates of pearl between the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,” never ceases to grip me, and to move me, and its something for which I long, and I know you long for it as well. This morning will be thinking about the subject…

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