The Treasure Test
The Lord's Day Morning November 7, 2010 Stewardship Sunday Matthew 6:19-21 “The Treasure Test” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III That is a radical hymn [Take My Life and Let It Be]. Many of us have sung that...
View ArticleTrue Religion, Part 4: Fasting
May all our hearts be drawn to God as we meditate on that vision of the glory of the new heavens and the new earth. If you have your Bibles, I would invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 6. We...
View ArticleAnd Lead Us Not into Temptation but Deliver Us from Evil
Matthew 6:13"Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one" This text brings us to the end of the series on the Lords Prayer. It is a passage, as we have seen, that contains much more...
View ArticleAnd Forgive Us Our Debts as We Forgive Our Debtors
Matthew 6:12 "Forgive us our debts " Bishop Ryles book, Holiness was first published in last quarter of the nineteenth century, reprinted in 1956 and has remained in print ever since. Surprisingly,...
View ArticleGive Us this Day Our Daily Bread
Matthew 6:11 "Give us today our daily bread" When I was first converted, almost 30 years ago now, ѕ I was, as you say, a college freshman ѕ my great consuming need, or so I thought, was a car. And I...
View ArticleThy Kingdom Come
Matthew 6:10 Thy Kingdom Come Folk discovering the Lords Prayer for the first time may be excused in thinking that some of its petitions do not say a great deal. This one, for example: "Thy Kingdom...
View ArticleThy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven
The Lord's Prayer - 7Matthew 6:10 Thy Will be Done Dr. Thomas The third petition of the Lords Prayer, "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt 6:10), brings into sharp focus that God is...
View ArticleForms and Prayer Books
SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER - 3 THE LORDS PRAYER Forms and Prayer Books "Pray, then, in this way " (Matt. 6:9)
View ArticleHollowed be Thy Name
The Lord's Prayer - 5 Hallowed be Thy name Even a cursory reading of the Bible will reveal that names are important to the biblical writers. Some will recall recent expositions of Genesis where the...
View ArticleTrue Religion, Part 3: Prayer and Forgiveness
Turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6 as we continue our study in the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. The last time we were together in this passage, we were looking at our Lord’s teaching,...
View ArticleThe Lord's Purpose & Provision in the Lord's Prayer
Let’s pray! Almighty, all gracious, all loving, all knowing God, unless You had given to us of the Holy Spirit, unless the Holy Spirit so works in power and glory and mercy and grace, we live and...
View ArticlePray Then Like This
If you would, turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6. I have been teaching through the Sermon on the Mount in the Young Seekers Sunday School class this quarter, and I didn’t feel like I...
View ArticleTrue Religion, Part 2: Praying
If you have your Bibles, please turn with me to Matthew chapter 6, as we continue our study of this great Gospel of Matthew and of the Sermon on the Mount. Last time we were together in this passage,...
View ArticleTrue Religion, Part 1: Giving
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 6. We have been studying the Gospel of Matthew and in particular the Sermon on the Mount for the past few weeks. Concentrating on chapter 5 and...
View ArticleGod's Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 6
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5 verse 43 as we continue our study of the Sermon on the Mount. We’ve said that throughout chapter 5 from verse 17 all the way down to the end of...
View ArticleGod's Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 5
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5. We have been studying the Sermon on the Mount for the past few weeks, and specifically, since we began our study of Matthew 5 verses 21 and...
View ArticleGod's Law vs. Human Tradition: Part 4
Please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew 5, verse 33. 5:33. We have been studying the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. We saw in verses 17-20 that Lord set forth the principle of the righteousness of...
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Beginning last Sunday evening and running over the course of five Sundays as Gary said earlier, we are looking at some of the big barriers to faith in Jesus Christ in our culture and our context. Last...
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