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Psalm 119 Not By Bread Alone – How I Love Your…

The Lord's Day Evening April 28, 2013 Not by Bread Alone“How I Love Your Law”Psalm 119:97-104 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Psalm 119. We’re going to look at verse 97 through 104 tonight as we continue in our series, Not by Bread Alone. This section of Psalm 119 contains one of the most famous lines in the psalm, “How I love your law.” It's a theme that you find in a number of places in the Psalms, not the least familiar being in the very first psalm. The very first psalm celebrates this same truth. “I delight in your law,” we are reminded of at the very outset of the Psalms. And in this particular psalm, the psalmist is going to, or this section of Psalm 119, the psalmist is going to commend the Scriptures to you and me…

Like His Brethren in All Things

The Lord's Day Morning February 10, 2013 Better “Like His Brethren in All Things” Hebrews 2:14-18 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 2. We’re going to be looking at verses 14 to 18 together today. There is a haunting phrase in Andrew Peterson's wrenchingly beautiful song, “You’ll Find Your Way.” Fathers, if you haven't heard that song, I'd commend you to listen to it and even pray through it thinking about your sons. It's a – the lyric is a father thinking about his son and even speaking to his son before his son knows what he's going to be facing in life. And he tells his son, “You’re going to grow up, son, and you’re going to get lost. And when you get lost,…

While They Were Sleeping

The Lord's Day Morning September 4, 2011 “While They Were Sleeping” Luke 22:39-26 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 22 as we continue our way through this gospel together. We are, this morning, on holy ground as we come upon the Lord Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Luke, simply says, that we are on the Mount of Olives. The other gospels tell us that it's not only on the Mount of Olives but in the Garden. The other gospels give us details that Luke does not give us because he compacts the narrative and focuses us in on specific things, and at the same time, Luke tells us some things here that the other gospel writers do not tell us. Luke alone, for instance, tells us of the angel sent from God to…

Temptation, Sin and Faith

The Lord's Day Morning January 23, 2011 “Temptation, Sin and Faith” Luke 17:1-6 The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 17 as we continue our way through the gospel of Luke together. If you take a glance at these first six verses in Luke 17, I want to remind you that as we've worked our way through Luke 16, repeatedly Jesus has been dealing with a problem with both the Pharisees’ lives and their teaching. They…

Tempted, Tried and Never Failing

The Lord's Day Morning April 19, 2009 Communion Sunday Luke 4:1-13 “Tempted, Tried but Never Failing” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III CALL TO WORSHIP: 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. Let us worship Him. Our Lord and our God, we need You more than food. We love You more than life. We treasure You more than anything. We come today by the gospel; we come today by the…

Success, Loyalty, and Betrayal

Genesis 39:1-23Success, Loyalty and Betrayal If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 39. The last few weeks we have been doing our first studies in the final section of the book of Genesis in chapters 37 through 50 and the story of the life of Joseph. And we've said several times now that two things are important to understand about this section of the book. First of all the story of Joseph tells us how Israel wound up in Egypt, and secondly it explains to us…

The Meeting of the Brothers

Genesis 33:1-20The Meeting of the Brothers If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis 33. We’ll study this chapter tonight which recounts the meeting between Esau and Jacob. This much-anticipated reunion of the brothers. Jacob wasn't much anticipating a positive experience in this reunion. And so there has been some tension building in the succeeding chapters as we have seen Jacob making his way back towards Canaan to the promised land. And then hearing that he…

The Kingdom Principle: The Least is Greatest, Part 2:…

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 18 and verse 7. As we looked together at Matthew 17 verses 24 to 27 we noticed in that incident when the tax collectors in Capernaum came to Peter and asked him whether the Lord Jesus paid the temple tax, Jesus gave opportunity or took opportunity at that incident to attest to his divinity and to show the example of his humility to Peter. He explained to Peter that though, as the very Son of God, He…

The Fall 1

If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Genesis, chapter 3 and we're going to attend to the first thirteen verses. Genesis 3. Hear the word of the living God: Genesis 3:1-7 Our Father, we bow before You in Your sovereignty and in your goodness as we read Your word, and we ask that You would enlighten our own hearts to the truth, not only that we would understand the passage and the doctrines that it teaches, but that we would be warned off by the Holy Spirit from our…

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