Category Archives: Worship

18
Jul

A Scripture Reading and a Brief Exposition, and then a Baptism

Your browser does not support the audio element. Podcast Powered By Podbean Exodus 10:7-11 Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their … Continue reading →

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16
Jun

Did the boy get to enjoy his own donation of loaves and fishes?

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus … Continue reading →

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22
Dec

Alastair blogs the intro to Chauvet’s ‘Symbol and Sacrament’

Chauvet begins by remarking upon the fact that an appreciation of the diversity of the sacraments and the heterogeneity of the elements comprising the realm of ‘sacramentality’ has led to a movement away from the traditional preoccupation with the question … Continue reading →

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21
Dec

Celebrating a Calvinist Christmas with a Clear Conscience

‘Tis the season to be informed–sometimes in gentleness, often with vigor–by a variety of Christians claiming that it is wrong to celebrate Christmas. I have no desire to force anyone to celebrate Christmas against their will. Indeed, it would be … Continue reading →

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21
Dec

Psalm 87 applied to this Christmas (2011)

A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song. On the holy mount stands the city he founded; the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things of you are spoken, O … Continue reading →

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15
Dec

Is your Lord’s Supper pagan enough to be Christian? Is it Jewish enough?

It is not uncommon for one Christian teacher or group to accuse another professing Christian teacher or group of holding ideas about worship and communion that are “really just pagan.” Or perhaps it someone will attack a theory of being … Continue reading →

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7
Dec

Getting God’s attention

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp. And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather … Continue reading →

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28
Nov

The Real Presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper — Why it matters

Why it matters will depend on a host of inferences. Not everyone makes the same inferences from the same principles. Systems can go in different directions. I can say everything at once in this brief post. Not going to try. … Continue reading →

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21
Nov

Why Weekly Communion? An outline of an argument

1. Eating God’s special food is a basic way God relates to humanity. Genesis 1 and 2 lay out general and special space (world and garden) as a distinction between general and special food. We go from this And God … Continue reading →

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17
Nov

Alastair on substantiations and other aspects of the Lord’s Supper in Protestantism

It is popularly supposed in certain quarters that the general denial of transubstantiation among Protestants and particularly by the Reformers was occasioned by a resistance to the ideas of the ‘Real Presence’ of Christ in the Eucharist, or to the … Continue reading →

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