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A Table That Opens to the Kingdom of Heaven
In a day and age when many do not know who they are or whose they are, we come to a table that reminds us of both. This is the table of the Lord. And those who eat and drink here are members of his body and belong to him. The Heidelberg Catechism says that…
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Far Better Than a Fenced Table
It is common for Christians to talk about ministers fencing the Lord’s Table. And we really can do better with our word pictures. It is easy for this image to become quite displeasing. One imagines a high chain link fence running right along the edges of a table, forbidding anyone from enjoying the meal. The…
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Something Greater Than the Temple Is Here
One sabbath, as the disciples walked in a field, they plucked grain to eat. The Pharisees didn’t like this. They charged the disciples with doing what was unlawful on the sabbath. Jesus’ response was to say, “Haven’t you read in the law how the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless” (Matthew…
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His Broken Body, Yours
Many Christians will say that Christ saves in the way that one man delivers another from a ditch by throwing down a rope. There is certainly some truth to the illustration. Hannah told us that our God raises the poor out of the dust (1 Samuel 2:8). But this image is not entirely sufficient. And…
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Food For Your Faith
It indeed is hard to renounce our faith in the static and fixed nature of the created world. You don’t have to look far to find a man who will say, “There are only so many fish in the sea.” Or, “a loaf of bread can only be cut into so many slices.” But the…
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A Vineyard Which Ye Planted Not
One of the shocking things about grace is how uneven it is. Man can keep his wits about him when observing the soda machine. One dollar in, one soda out. Two dollars in, two sodas out. It seems fair enough. Even if a man doesn’t have a dollar, and subsequently, no soda, he can still…