Book 4/Chapter 17 The presence known (section 18) 1. When is the presence of Christ known? 2. What logical problem is caused by transubstantiation? 3. How does Christ feed us with the communion of His body? Two essential things (section 19) 1. What are the two essential things that must be maintained in the Supper? …
The NSA Fight Song
So here is Psalm 122, one that we found on a CD of early American sacred music, a CD entitled Goostly Psalmes. Goostly is a great synonym for spiritual, is it not? Let’s try to bring that one back. Another name that we have for this psalm is the NSA Fight Song. The way we …
Four Years to Go
I have recently posted on the revolutionary nature of industrialized education. The modern university system was born in the revolutionary era, and was a function of people abandoning the historic Christian forms of higher education, and trading them in for a style more in keeping with what they thought was promised by the Industrial Revolution. …
Ascent or Descent?
Book 4/Chapter 17 The basis of transubstantiation (section 15) 1. What was the cause of the “crude imagination” involved in the doctrine of transubstantiation? 2. The bread is a sacrament only to whom? Ascending and descending (section 16) 1. What mistake do those make who say the body of Christ descends to the bread? The …
And Now for Something Completely Different
HT: Frank Turk
O Love How Deep, How Broad, How High
We sing a lot of psalms, but not exclusively. Call the practice dominant psalmnody. At any rate, here is an example of one of the hymns we sing. I believe the melody was composed after the English victory at Agincourt. Psalm Sing – Christ Church, Moscow, ID from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.
Through Composed
Okay, now it is time for a different kind of psalm. The previous two were metrical psalms, and the tunes were fuguing tunes — very popular in early American music. But there is another way to sing psalms as well, one which enables your people to get closer to the text, and to store up …
Jesus Under the Word
When our Lord was tempted by the devil in the wilderness, He answered with Scripture, as we all know. Three times He was tested, and each time He replied in the words of Deuteronomy. But this is sometimes misunderstood. We tend to think that Jesus was quoting Scripture at the devil, as though the devil …
The Spirit’s Work
You have often been reminded that in this meal we partake of the body and blood of Jesus Christ. We do not do this because He is somehow locally present on this Table—for He is at the right hand of the Father, and not here. But Paul is very clear that we are made partakers …
Banish the Gods, Summon the Demons
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, as a nation we have sought to be governed by …