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, we acknowledge our sin to You, bowing beneath the weight …
No Non-Euclidian Scales
Music can be divided into three general categories—music you should repent of, music you can grow from, and music you can grow into. Music can be repented of for two reasons. The more obvious would be the intellectual musical attempts to declare the world to be a different kind of place than God created it …
Superstition and the Supper
What is superstition? In our secular age, it is common to define it as the religious practices of someone else, practices that you don’t believe in. But this is too easy. Superstition should be best understood as any devoted spiritual practice that is mindlessly conducted and pursued, and yet tenaciously practiced. False faith would be …
No Salvation Without a Savior
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, we have indeed sinned with our fathers, and we have …
Exhilaration and Maturity
As we continue our journey into musical maturity, we have to remember something about all such journeys. The beginning of any worthwhile endeavor is always exciting. Whether it is the first day of school compared to a gray, school day three months later, or falling in love compared to faithfulness in a troubled patch of …
The First Meal
The Lord’s Supper is the first meal and it is the last meal, because it is the meal that memorializes the Lord Jesus, revealed to us as the Alpha and the Omega, the First and Last. The first food available to our parents in Eden was eaten in communion with God, particularly the tree of …
Come Let Us Reason
Confession 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, You have invited us to come and reason together …
Gerizim and Ebal
Lane has moved on to discuss Venema’s treatment of 1 Corinthians 11 in chapter 6. Before I follow him there, I wanted to say at least a couple of things about Venema’s introduction of “New Testament evidence” in his chapter 5, and respond briefly to his argument from John 6. First, it bears repeating that …
Sound of the Chisel
We are a gathered assembly here, gathered in order to worship the Lord. But we have gathered out of a community, a group of people who live together, serving the Lord in various capacities, throughout the rest of the week. What we do there is what we bring here. We see this in everything. The …
Learning to Love
We have gathered at this Table from many different households, and we represent many different eating habits. But once a week, we all gather together in order to eat and drink the same thing, and do so in the same way, according to the same custom. In Christ, this is a meal of shared love, …