Sermons on Resurrection Of Jesus
I want you to have some sense of what kind of story this is. The Christian message centers on the fact of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It’s not a metaphor or a symbol for some abstract spiritual experience. It’s not a myth concocted by the religiously deranged or a deception deployed by the strong to manipulate the weak. It is a fact of...
How can you find joy when sorrow grips your heart? How do you rejoice when life is relentless in throwing grief-inducing trials your way? If you’ll look for a moment at our passage in 1 Peter chapter 1, you will see that that is precisely what Peter says the Christians of Asia Minor were doing in verse 6. Do you see that in verse 6? “In this you...
Now if you would turn with me please to the book of Esther chapter 8. Esther chapter 8; you’ll find that on page 414 in the church Bible. Before we read God’s Word together let’s bow our heads as we pray.
Our Father, there is not a child of Yours here, howsoever advanced in the Christian life they may be, that can claim that opening Your Word...
The Lord's Day Morning
January 1, 2012
“Perplexed. Frightened. Incredulous…Marveling!”
Luke 24:1-12
The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to the gospel of Luke, the twenty-fourth chapter. Today, on the first Lord's Day of the new year, we come to the last chapter of the gospel of...
The Lord's Day Morning
April 24, 2011
“The Third Day He Will Rise Again”
Luke 18:31-34
The Reverend Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 18. We’re going to be looking especially at verses 31 to 34. As you turn there, I'd invite you to turn back — keep your finger in Luke 18 —...
The Lord's Day March 23, 2008
Philippians 3:1-11
Fighting for Joy, Growing in Humility, Knowing Christ
and the Peace that Passes Understanding:A Study of Philippians
“Knowing the Power of Christ's Resurrection”
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III
Amen. If you have your bibles let me invite you to turn with me to Philippians chapter 3. We've been looking at this great letter of the apostle to the Philippians for...
The Lord's Day Evening
May 7, 2006
Acts 1:1-11
“Gazing into Heaven: The Ascension of Jesus””
Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas
Today we begin a new series on The Acts of the Apostles and, as you can imagine, this will take us a little while to get through the 28 chapters of The Acts of the Apostles. We’re going to look this evening at the opening, the first...
The Lord's Day Evening
Easter Sunday
April 16, 2006
Mark 16:1-8
“Up From the Grave He Arose”
Dr. Derek W. H. Thomas
Now I want you, as you open up your Bible or the pew Bible in front of you, as you open it up to Mark 16, I want you to do something for me. I want you to take your bulletin and cover over verses 9-20....
The Lord's Day Morning
Easter Sunday
April 16, 2006Ephesians 4:14-16
“Jesus Is Alive, and As a Result...”
Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III
If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter four, as we continue to make our way through this great book together. This morning I want to concentrate for a few moments on what the Apostle Paul says ought...
John 20:24-31 Doubting Thomas
Please turn with me to the penultimate sermon of John's gospel. This particular section at the close of the chapter records for us the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ in the upper room to the disciples at a time when Thomas, who is also called Didymus, was with them. We pick up the reading at verse 24:
But Thomas, one of the twelve...
John 20:1-23 Conjuring Tricks with Bones
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb. So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we...
If you have your Bibles I would invite to turn with me to Matthew, chapter 28. We come today to our ultimate message in this series on the gospel of Matthew. Next week will look at the great commission next time we’re together and then into the gospel according to the apostle Paul in the book of Romans.
And we continue today to look at the theme...
If you have your Bibles I’d invite you to turn with me to Matthew 28. We have now come to the final chapter in the gospel of Matthew, and now at the end of his scroll Matthew, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, begins to recount for us the resurrection of his crucified Lord. And the story itself is gripping and even surprising in its own way...
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...