Download Audio Download Text “The End in the Beginning” Matthew 2:13-23 December 23, 2018 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn Text Comment v.13 God preserved the life of his son in Egypt as, long before, he had preserved the life of Israel there. Here we are introduced to a theme that is going to […]
Download Audio Download Text “The People of the Nativity” Luke 2:1-20 December 16, 2018 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn I could have chosen any number of paragraphs in Luke 1 and 2 or Matthew 1 and 2 as a text for the sermon I am about to preach. The observation I wish to make […]
Download Audio Download Text “A Time for Angels” Luke 1:5-20 December 9, 2018 The Rev. Dr. Robert S. Rayburn This morning we turn from the Psalms to the Gospel narratives of the birth of the Lord Jesus. Today I want to consider the interesting fact, a fact we take far too much for granted and […]
We began our series of morning sermons on the Gospel of Luke on the 28th of August 2011. We conclude the series this morning with this, the ninety-second sermon. Remember, though we have largely avoided preaching twice on the same paragraph, Luke&…
Last Lord’s Day we read of the Lord’s appearance to his disciples on that first Easter Sunday evening and considered how and why the Lord laid such great emphasis on the fact that he was again a body, that the very body that had died o…
The Lord rose early in the morning of the Sunday following the Friday on which he was crucified and buried. That is, he rose in the Jewish way of calculating on the third day . In the morning he appeared to Mary and some other women; in the after…
We left Luke’s narrative of the Lord’s resurrection last Lord’s Day morning with the fact having been announced by the angel but no one yet having seen the Lord. From the other Gospels we learn that this was to change throughout …
We pick up Luke’s narrative, after Prof. Allen Ross’ sermon on Psalm 73 last Lord’s Day morning, with the narrative of the resurrection that begins in Luke’s history, as it began on that long ago Sunday, quietly, softly, wi…
Two Lord’s Days ago we completed the account of the Lord’s crucifixion, reading to verse 49 of chapter 23. Today we complete that long and immensely important chapter.
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v.51
All the Gospels report that Josep…
In the last sermon in this series, I read and commented on vv. 32-43. I will read those verses again but without comment. I will offer some comment on vv. 44-49 which we are reading for the first time.
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v.44
The sixt…