Category Archives: communion

It is not because we are deserving but because of His righteousness that we can expect Him to answer when we call. But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself; the Lord hears when I call to Him. (Psalm 4:3) We can identify with the desperation and plea of theContinue reading “Breaking the Bread of Christ”

The Struggle Ephesians 6:11 Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. Our experience confirms the suggestion of this passage—that life is basically a struggle. Life never conforms to the rosy idealism of our dreams or to the romanticism of our songs. The explanation ofContinue reading “Breaking the Bread”

Paul’s letter to the Ephesians gives an amazing summary of God’s work of salvation. It begins with the awesome affirmation that God loved us even before the universe was created, and that God had planned from the start to fulfill God’s purpose for us and for the created order. This plan is for the entireContinue reading “Breaking the Bread”

Throughout Christmas, we have been celebrating the incarnation – God becoming human. It’s one thing to proclaim that God has been embodied in human flesh, but it’s a completely different thing to understand what that means for us today. If the incarnation is nothing more than an interesting quirk of history, it really makes noContinue reading “At His Table”

John 20:2-9 (Luke 24:9-12) She ran and found Simon Peter and me and said, “They have taken the Lord’s body out of the tomb, and I don’t know where they have put him!” We ran to the tomb to see; I outran Peter and got there first, and stooped and looked in and saw theContinue reading “Up From the Grave”

It sounds strange read the words “warnings” and “Good News” in the same sentence. For John the Baptizer there was no contradiction between warning people about their injustice and proclaiming the Good News of the coming One. Preparing for God’s coming was not just about having some nice feeling in the heart or agreeing withContinue reading “The Breaking of the Bread”

There is no one like you. You are unique. No one has a fingerprint like yours, a DNA that exactly matches yours. Roots are important, and not just to your plants. Your DNA shows what proclivities you may have regarding disease, intellect, temperament, and so much more. There are 47 names listed in Matthew 1,Continue reading “Breaking the Bread”

Through the Scriptures we see a growing awareness of what it means to call Christ “King”. In the early parts of the Old Testament, God’s Rule was seen as very much like human empires, but bigger and more powerful. The dominant idea in these passages is that God destroys God’s enemies and crushes all oppositionContinue reading “The Breaking of the Bread”

How do we respond to the ways of power and dominance in our world? The most natural response is to retaliate, using force to overcome force and violence to deal with violence. It’s tempting to place our faith in bigger guns, more money, and better power plays, but there is no peace or security toContinue reading “The Breaking of Bread”