The Unseen Battle
First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Morning Service
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First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Morning Service
First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi Morning Service
Our passage today, Romans 8:17-25, is all about that. It's all about suffering and finding hope. It's about understanding the design of God...
If you look at the text with me for just a moment, I want you to see Paul highlighting three aspects of our adoption in particular. Verses 1...
And as we turn our attention this morning to verses 12 and 13, I want you to see that Paul is beginning now to draw some preliminary conclus...
This time, we're going to focus on verses 9 through 11 where Paul elaborates on what it means to have the Holy Spirit come into our lives. A...
This week, in verses 5 through 8 where our attention will fall, Paul is unpacking the basic contrast with which he has been working - the co...
This week, we turn our attention to verses 3 and 4 which are really a continuation of Paul's argument about our transformed lives, about how...
Today, as we turn to the second verse of Romans chapter 8 the metaphor changes. We're no longer thinking about a judicial sentence pronounce...
Well let me invite you now please to take a Bible in hand and turn to Romans chapter 8; Romans chapter 8. We are beginning a new series work...
But into that situation of weakness and neediness, God speaks a word of grace through the lips of the apostle Paul to needy Christians in Ph...
The Corinthians were asking, "What if the dead are not raised? Would it really make that much of a difference to us?" So Paul teases out the...
Would you look at the passage with me again for a moment? First of all, Peter reminds us there is grace in the Word of God, verse 12. There'...
Well do please take your copy of God's Word in hand and turn with me to 1 Peter. We're working our way through 1 Peter on Sunday mornings. T...
We're going to think about it under four headings. We'll think first about the elder's office. In our contemporary scene, not every church h...
We could sum up the themes of our passage this way then. We could say it is first of all about responding to suffering. Responding to suffer...
Well would you take your hymnals out and we're going to turn to page 835 in our hymnals this morning. The Psalms are found in the back of ou...
But McQuilken asks, "How do you measure how you're doing in mission?" And his answer is - here are the metrics - "100, 50, 10 and 5." They'r...
We're going to read this morning from Exodus chapter 3, and this is the story of the burning bush. It's one of the great stories of the enti...
Peter is offering a final word on a series of reflections we've been examining together for some time now on the reality of suffering in the...
Last time, in the first six verses, we noticed that Peter gives some instruction on how the church, Christians, are to relate to the world....
There simply is no way to live in obedience to Christ and in conformity to the world at the same time. And that one hard reality is very muc...
We've been working our way steadily through 1 Peter together here at First Church on Sunday mornings, and one of the major themes we've been...
Now if you would take a Bible in hand and turn with me to 1 Peter chapter 3 on page 1016 of the church Bibles. We have been working our way...
And if you look at the passage, verses 8 through 12, you'll see it focuses on Christian behavior in three directions. First, Peter has couns...
The reality of time as God has created it will propel us forward into 2020, whether we want it to or not. Both, they and we, are bounded by...
And that means of course that we are, today, at verse 8 where we'll think together now about "The Cost of Christmas." "The Cost of Christmas...
And now this week as we turn our attention to verse 7, we're going to look at the very heart of Christmas. The words of verse 7 take us into...
Well this morning we continue in our Advent series looking at Paul's use of Philippians 2:5-11. We began looking at this together last time....
And to guide our thinking, we'll be working our way line by line through Philippians 2:5-11. It's a famous passage, sometimes known as the "...
This morning we're turning to Leviticus chapter 7. Leviticus is unfamiliar territory for many of us. We are thousands of years away from the...
We have been working through 1 Peter together as a church on Sunday mornings and we come to one of those passages that preachers often dread...
And I want us to think through Peter's answer under three headings. He essentially says three things about how to live for Christ in difficu...
But 1 Peter 4:10-11 do have something to say to us about our stewardship. We're going to think about the teaching of the passage under five...
And here in chapter 4, we join the laborers in the city on the building site as they work on the walls. And they are surrounded, as we are g...
Through verse 12 of chapter 2, we've seen Peter give us, you might say, general theological and practical principles. And now, beginning in...
We have a really great story from the Old Testament this morning and 2 Kings chapter 5. It's one of the great stories of the whole Old Testa...
Look at verses 11 and 12 with me just a moment before we begin and notice the central concern of the apostle Peter in these two verses. He w...
First of all, the passage before us is going to call us to come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. Secondly, come to Jesus by faith. Third, come to Je...
And if you'll look at verses 1 through 3, I want you to notice that Peter says essentially two things. If you're going to live for Christ in...
So there are five stages to this journey back to the source of the river that we need to follow. First is brotherly love. Second is the ques...
And so, Peter, in verses 18 through 21, our passage for this morning, is turning the diamond of the ransom, of the redemption, of the price...
And as we consider Peter's "therefore" and these implications of the grace of God in verses 13 through 17, I want you to notice with me that...
We're going to consider verses 10 through 12 by noticing there are three groups of people engaging with God's Word, responding to the Gospel...
Verses 3 through 9 rehearse for us our great Gospel privileges. In 3 through 5, the apostle Peter lists those privileges; he outlines them f...
We are only going to look at verses 1 and 2 today by way of introduction to the letter, but I want you to notice in these two introductory v...
First, in verse 1, we'll spend some time thinking together about the crisis of mercy ministry; the circumstances that gave rise to the insti...
As we finish our series on the means of grace this morning by looking at the Church, there are three key areas that I want us to be thinking...
And you know, that makes sense on this side of eternity because the Bible says a whole lot about baptism and the Lord's Supper, both through...
"Taking the Lord's Supper seriously is something that deep down most of us simply do not do." That's the way J.I. Packer begins the last cha...
For the next several Lord's Days, some of our assistant ministers will be examining what we call "the means of grace," that is, the means th...