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 live in a generation that rejects Your laws, and …
Dead Silence
Time to reengage with Lane on the question of paedocommunion. First, just a few comments on his post, and then on to Venema’s treatment of the historic Reformed position on all this. Lane uses the example of citizenship and certain privileges like driving or voting. He wants to say that just because covenant children are …
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Music
We have already noted the importance of recognizing the importance of what kind of occasion this is, and therefore what kind of music should be presented to God. We have also noted the need for expertise. We come now to the question of what kind of people are to perform the music. And the biblical …
The Last Shall be First
One of our names for the establishment of this sacramental meal is the Last Supper. We call it this because it was the last meal that Jesus shared with His disciples before His arrest and crucifixion. But the name is more evocative than being just a reference to the chronology of Christ’s life. It was …
The Drought of Summer
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 are tired of living in the drought of summer. …
Welcome to the Covenant
Welcome to the Covenant from Darren Doane on Vimeo.
The Right to An Opinion
We began this series of exhortations by noting that worship is a particular kind of occasion, and so it requires a particular kind of music. Related to this was the point that not all our music has to be church music, but that all of it should be fundamentally consistent with what we sing here. …
Double Gratitude
This is a meal that should be bookended with gratitude. We come to the Table in the first place because we are grateful, and we are looking for a means to overflow, a way to express that gratitude. One of the names for this meal is the Eucharist, which comes from the Greek word for …
Historical Forgetfulness
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 confess that we do not understand our own history. …
Musical Consistency
Music is far more central to our lives than we perhaps assume. We come into contact with music all the time—sometimes explicitly as in worship, and sometimes implicitly as with the background music in restaurants that you scarcely notice, and other times explicitly but still thoughtlessly, as with the music that many have loaded on …