The Lord’s Table contains several well-known symbols. We all know the bread and the cup symbolize the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for us. But these are not the only symbols at the table. In 1 Corinthians 10:17, the Apostle Paul tells us the table also stands for the unity of the church.
17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of …
It’s a great mistake to believe that Jesus Christ died so that we wouldn’t die. In Colossians 3, the Apostle Paul says:
2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Notice, Christ didn’t die so that you wouldn’t die. If you have put your faith in him, then when he died, you died. …
This Communion meditation was inspired by a portion of C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves
We often think that we have chosen our friendships and that we have done so because we’re really good at choosing good friends. In reality, just a few years difference in our births, a different job opening in another state, a different home on the opposite side of town—any of those chances would have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, …
When Christ returns to this earth to judge the nations, these are the words he will speak to his church:
‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, (ESV)
A chief characteristic of the church is hospitality. …
The Lord’s Supper is a foundation of all our political views. Not party platforms, not voting, not supporting candidates with signs in our yards.
All of those things are important, but they are only important as they are an outflow of this table. At this table we sit down together and declare that Jesus Christ is Lord. In this declaration we are at the same time declaring that political leaders are not Lord. The political …
COMMUNION MEDITATION
As we take hold of a piece of bread and a cup of juice, we must never forget that they symbolize a real body that was broken and red blood that was truly spilled.
Christianity is not a religion of religious symbols in hope of a real salvation. It is a real salvation with symbols which embody our hope.
As John Updike said in his Seven Stanzas for Easter:
Make no mistake: if …
All week long, I’ve been helping my son memorize Psalm 23:1 – “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” We’ve been reminding him that God is his shepherd, and God knows all of his sheep. He knows their needs, their fears, their sicknesses and their sufferings.
Verse 5 of Psalm 23 says, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” For us in the church, that table is this …
In Luke’s account of the Last Supper, he tells us that:
And when the hour came, [Jesus] reclined at table, and the apostles with him. And [Jesus] said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
As much as he didn’t want to suffer, he still looked forward with eager expectation to have this meal with his disciples. And I have to tell you that I have earnestly …
We do quite a bit of standing and sitting in our service. And I want you to know that we do it all for a reason.
Earlier in the service we all stood to hear an assurance of pardon. Think about what’s happening at that moment of the service. We’ve just confessed sin. We’ve come, as it were, into the courtroom of the cosmic judge and we’ve pleaded guilty to all the charges of breaking …
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility
Sin divides man from God, and man from man. But, when Christ died for sin, he broke down the walls that divide us from God and one another. From …
