When you are discouraged, as one of God’s saints, you should strengthen your hands and weak knees. Whatever your circumstances, God has received you. See? you are here at this Table. You are welcome. This is the opposite of the condition of a man outside of Christ. Whatever encouragements he might have, day to day, …
You Already Have a Savior
When we turn away into various forms of idolatry, we are asking other gods to do what only God can do. As we will consider in the message this morning, fathers provide and protect. False fathers promise to provide and protect, and then fail to deliver. This is the history of idolatry—they over promise and …
Receiving Your Token
Are you discouraged? Do you have troubles pressing in on you? Are some of your troubles of such a nature that you can see no possible way out? God is still your Father, and God wants you to learn how to remember in the dark what you knew in the light. God wants you to …
The Promise Comes First
One of the things we should gather from this Table is a right grasp of the relationship between promise and trouble. God’s saints do go through troubles, but they are like a cloud that passes over the sun. Nonbelievers have their troubles as well, but theirs are like the pitch of night that is a …
Glory is Not Wispy
Music is a form of glory. There are many forms of glory, but all of them have this in common — they are weighty. Glory is not wispy. We know that fighting the acoustics in this space is difficult, and we want figure out whatever means of dealing with that as we can — that’s …
Decorated Damnation
The apostle Paul speaks of how the Corinthians came together at the Table in such a fashion as to do more harm than good (1 Cor. 11:17). How are we to understand this? How may we prevent falling into this sin ourselves? God has created us as material creatures, and so we cannot worship Him …
For the Fire to Fall
The exhortation this morning will be half announcement and half exhortation. But it is no less spiritual for being practical, and so here goes. You all should recall that beginning next Lord’s Day we will be addressing the topic of Father Hunger, and we will be focused on that for 8 weeks. The HOH meeting …
God Tamers
The difference between Heaven and Hell is not a subtle one. When the Almighty God separates the sheep and the goats, at the end of the day, that judgment day, there will be no nuance. Light and darkness are too entirely different sorts of things—and children of light and children of darkness have entirely different …
Not aTier of Loose Knots
This is a Table of promise, and because it is a gospel Table, this means that the promise is what God promises to us. The initiative is entirely His. Now if we receive what God promises us, then we must necessarily have it. We cannot receive His promise without having His promise. We are bound …
Common Grace and a Calculator
Some of you may have wondered what kind of economic disaster I have been warning you about. I have been urging you to set aside resources to share in hard times, and to practice a real koinonia kind of love now. What am I talking about? In the words of Amos, I am not a …