This is a meal that feeds us spiritually, and we should make a point of understanding how this relates to something we call stress. At this time of year, almost all of us have additional responsibilities, and some of us have quite a few additional responsibilities. This might be a function of Christmas preparations, or …
A Ransom Meal
The Lord has prepared a Table for us, and this Table is like all His other works—beyond marvelous. The Table is set simply—red wine and simple bread. The Lord teaches us that this bread represents His body, broken for us. This wine represents His blood, shed for us. His physical body was broken outside Jerusalem …
Finally Getting In
We come to this meal in grateful anticipation of what God has in store for all those who love Him, and who love His appearing. In this meal, God gives us Himself, but He does it by giving us tokens of what shall be. The marriage supper of the Lamb, at the great consummation of …
What Your Hands Are Holding
We are to avail ourselves of the means of grace that God sets before us, and as we do, we are to wait on God to perform what He intends to perform. We have come to this Table having confessed our sins, having sung our gratitude to God, and having heard His Word proclaimed. We …
He Came Back Without Them
Our task is to gather, to worship, to listen, to take, and to eat and drink. This is how God has determined to give the nations of the world to His Son, and so we should be about His business. The world was conquered in the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. The world …
As New as the Everlasting Hills
As we come to this Table this morning, remember—as you should remember always—that this is the Table of the new covenant. We talk a great deal about what is meant by covenant—a glorious word. But we should also reflect on what is meant by the word new. How can a ritual that we perform every …
Locusts From the Treasury
As we observe the Lord’s Supper every week, you will have noticed that we begin with the presentation of our tithes and offerings. This Table is a table of thanksgiving, and we know of no better way to tangibly express our gratitude to God than by means of our tithes, our offerings, and our gifts. …
Managing the Brand
The Scriptures instruct us about the spiritual condition of the early church in Jerusalem, during the time when great grace was upon them. “And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour …
Sweet Conviction
The Scriptures teach us that we must not automatically assume that affliction is the result of God’s chastisement for sin. The friends of Job made a serious mistake in this matter, and the disciples of the Lord, who wanted to know who had sinned—this man or his parents—such that he was born blind, made the …
And We Sing
One of the great blessings that accompanies coming to this Table every week is the blessing of being able to sing at this Table. One of the names for this meal comes from the Greek word for giving thanks—this is the Eucharist, a true sacrifice of praise. The 22nd Psalm says that God inhabits the …