Our gracious heavenly Father, we thank You for all the blessings you pour out upon us, day after day, and week after week. We are so grateful for the food before us, and for the fellowship of family, and for the arrival of yet another Lord’s Day. We pray that our joy would be full, …
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The Future Failure of Peter
As the Lord established the sacrament of the Supper, He did a very interesting thing – He predicted the future failure of Peter. And yet He still administered it to him. We would tend to think that the blessing was wasted on Peter, when we should really be thinking that without it he might have …
Three-Fold Office
Our Lord’s threefold office has been described as that of prophet, priest, and king. But these are not mere titles we assign to Him, without any practical apparent meaning. At the beginning of our service, we confess our sins. We seek a way to approach God through the blood of Jesus Christ. In the forgiveness …
Ezra Nehemiah 15
Introduction: This passage from Nehemiah is a wonderful example of how the work of the kingdom of God goes forward. Dealing the the nature of the work is one thing, and dealing with those who are hostile to the idea of that work is another, and it is often necessary to have a sword in …
Ezra Nehemiah 14
Introduction: We know that all Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for teaching and correcting. This does not mean that we gravitate to Nehemiah 3 as naturally as we do with Psalm 23 or 1 Corinthians 13, but it does mean something. The Text: Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the …
It Horrifies My Heart
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Give Your Word back to Your slave On which You made me hope This is my comfort in my fears, Your quickening Word has made me live, Your resurrecting power is here. The proud have loved to laugh at me, And they …
Anything But Innocence
One of the oldest pagan tricks in the world is the practice of simply assigning guilt. The one to whom it is assigned is not permitted to argue about it, and it is considered very bad manners if he does. To do so is simply heaping additional guilt on top of his designated and assigned …
Enacting Our Agreement
We have said before that in this meal we are being knit together into the body of Christ, muscle and bone, sinew and tendon, joint and marrow. But too many Christians have reversed the order in this, wanting doctrinal assent or understanding to be the thing that knits us together, so that we may then …
The Time of Reformation
The work of Christ on the cross was a work unlike any other in history. One powerful aspect of what He accomplished was the once for all nature of His atonement. He, unlike His shadows in the Old Testament, did not have to repeat His work over and over again. Even that which was a …