Most Sunday mornings I am, by God’s grace, to be found wobbling up to the rail with other sinners. Any doctrine of the Supper that requires I ascend into the heavenlies to feed there with Jesus is entirely too much to ask of me.
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Reflection on Eucharist Tradition
It remains unclear if Luther returned to the doctrine of the early church or truly added to it as the Orthodox theologians claim.
The Empty Spot At The Rail
People in our churches need to know that they would be missed at the Lord’s Table.
Parenting on the Supper
Every single week I am encouraged to renew the instruction with my children because with each week's consumption the benefits of faith are renewed.
The Great Divide: The Lord's Supper
"The flesh and blood of Christ are not less truly given to the unworthy into the elect believers of God." - John Calvin
His Body Offered and Broken
Kenzie isn't the only person who needs to hear this weekly.
Finding Our Place in God's Story Through Liturgy
Rather, than zooming
A Morbid Form of Self-Analysis
As moderns, we tend to believe that we are capable of objectively removing ourselves from our relationship with Christ and stand outside of it and judge it properly. Not only is this impossible, it would be a sinful approach to things even if we were capable of doing it.
In Which The Means of Grace Kick Ass
But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.” For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silas and Timothy—was not “Yes” and “No,” but in him it has always been “Yes.” For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through
This is My Body Broken For You
Perhaps the reason there is so much strife in the church nowadays is because we are not communing with one another as we ought. Our ultimate allegiances need to be formed not by who we would invite to our tables but by whom Jesus, weekly, invites to his.
Church as Family
The confession-oriented churches (credobaptism) have dispensed with this unity for a modernist community of convenience and exclusion.
Salvation by Eating and Drinking
"The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'" (Luke 7:43, NASB)
Liturgy Series: Part 10 — The Lord's Supper
In the Lord's
God's promises to Israel was to establish a mountain (Isa 2) and provide wine (Isa 25:6). With both of these things done in Christ we now worship in the "temple of Jesus" which is the body of Christ.
The second important lesson is that evil is specific. The devil is the adversary of God. And thus the devil is the adversary of God’s people. He looks to destroy us but our faith in Christ delivers us (1 Pet 5:8-9).