
Jephthah of Gilead
First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Evening Service
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First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Evening Service

First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Evening Service

Please turn with me in your Bibles to the Old Testament book of Judges, Judges chapter 8. This summer on Sunday nights we're in a sermon ser...

Judges chapter 7 is about weakness, and the truth is, whether we feel it or not, we are all weak. All of us. We sometimes fool ourselves int...

Well we're carrying on in the book of Judges tonight as we've been marching through it all of these Sunday nights lately and we've come up t...

And tonight, we're going to look at Judges chapters 4 and 5 and I want to do it in two acts. So first, act one, Judges 4, which gives us the...

There is some graphic and potentially offensive material in Judges chapter 3, but do you know what is the most offensive part of this chapte...

What we just read, commentators typically call the cycle of the Judges, and this pattern, it's a pattern or a cycle that makes Judges really...

So we're looking tonight at a half-hearted people and a whole-hearted God. And because starting a sermon series in the book of Judges is kin...

We're going to look in our Bibles tonight at Jeremiah chapter 9, and we're going to look at verses 23 and 24 together tonight. And when I wa...

So I want to come back to Proverbs tonight and look again, because we didn't cover in that series something that's treated pretty regularly...

Friends, if ever there was a day that reminds us and gives us hope it's Resurrection Sunday, isn't it? It's a celebration that Jesus is aliv...

We're going to focus on the three crosses that we see in the passage, these three figures on Calvary, because each of them shows something t...

Well tonight we're doing something a little different from the usual sermon that we have. It is going to be a message, a sermon from God's W...

Well we're going to look at another miracle that Jesus performs in Matthew chapter 8. Five short verses in 23-27. It's a short story, it's a...

The psalm is organized around these two interlocking illustrations. The first, and the most famous, and really the governing illustration, i...

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 93 as we face a unique time in our country and our culture; a time in which...

You understand, of course, Paul says "if Christ is not raised from the dead, we are of all men most to be pitied." Over and over again, the...

The same God who condescended to redeem us in Christ, the One who has promised and told us in Scripture that He prepares a home for us, He i...

We have been working down the Beatitudes on Sunday nights. And the Beatitudes, we said the very first week, is the description of the blesse...

And so we'll work this evening just section by section looking at this single verse, verse 6, and we'll look first at our appetites, our spi...

In terms of the Beatitudes themselves, they are the character qualities of those who are part of the kingdom of God. These are the virtues t...

We're starting a new series tonight for the next several weeks on the Beatitudes. And you can find the Beatitudes at the beginning of the Se...

So I want to turn us to a passage, to a verse tonight that deals with the topic of patience, wisdom in the area of patience, from the book o...

If Psalm 90 is for pilgrims - they don't have a home but God is their home. If Psalm 91 is for danger - you're in danger but God is your she...

Are you sad or lonely or lacking in hope? Then this is a psalm for you. Are you so content with this life that you have not learned to count...

The title of our brief meditation is at bare minimum a paradox - weeping in heaven. How can that be? Weeping in heaven? Is it possible that...

So we are in a little series on Christmas in the mind-bending book of Revelation. This is the vision of the apostle John at the end of his l...

And so I'd like us to think about the victory of Christmas this evening, and to do that, we really need to think about that victory from the...

Well we're going to look at Christmas from that same perspective over the next few weeks. To view Christmas, to view Christ's birth not as i...

Please turn with me in your Bible to Luke chapter 18; Luke chapter 18. Tonight we are concluding a Sunday night mini-series looking at the p...

Let me invite you to take up God's Word and to turn with me to the gospel of Matthew this evening as we read from Matthew 25:14-30. In our e...

And I wish we had the time this passage really deserves to dwell on those details, but we simply don't. All we can really do is pick out a f...

Well tonight I want to address a subject with you of following God fully. Following God fully. I want to look at the meaning of it - by grac...

Luke 12:35-48 really is not just one parable; it's three mini-parables. And there's one unifying theme. Each one of these mini-parables poin...

What does Jesus give us here that might actually change us, that might wake us up and motivate us to pray? Well He gives us in verses 5 to 1...

And we're looking at another one of Jesus' parables tonight. This is not a dramatic parable. There's no joyful embrace at the reunion of a f...

We're starting a new series at nighttime in October looking at some of the parables in the gospels, and we'll look tonight at Matthew 13:44-...

We really want to look at two things tonight. We want to look at Timothy's charge and we want to look at the something better. Not a very pr...

So what I want us to look at this evening is three things from the passage; three things. Three things that Paul gives thanks for. The first...

We're continuing in our study of the three primary Christian virtues - faith, hope and love - looking at how they work together, how they ar...

And we hear about love a lot. "All you need is love." "What the world needs now is love." "In the name of love." "What's love got to do with...

This evening we begin a short series looking at various texts that speak to us about the familiar New Testament triad of Christian virtues t...

So we're finishing our mini-series tonight on the story of Abram and we're in Genesis 14. And at the center of Genesis 14 is the story of Me...

We are in a mini-series on the life of Abraham and tonight we will be in Genesis chapter 13. Well what do we have here? What's going on in t...

So this story is about Abraham going down to Egypt at the beginning and then getting kicked out of Egypt at the end. And in the middle, God...

There are times, there are times for all of us aren't there, when what gets out, where what gets found out, where what you were hiding that...

Charles Spurgeon called Psalm 23, "the pearl of the Psalms." And so long before Michael Jordan, long before LeBron James and long before Dav...

That's the beginning of the book, Lament for a Son, written by Nicholas Wolterstorff who was a former philosophy professor at Yale Universit...

And before we jump in and read, something to orient us to our text tonight. The New York Times bestseller, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Ja...

This past year at First Presbyterian Church we have been immersed in our theme of "Rooted." What does it mean to be in union with Jesus Chri...