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Approaching the Lord Rightly
By Trevor Tolley How should we approach the Lord’s table every week? This seems like a very important question. We do not want to approach the Lord wrongly. Fortunately Scripture offers insight....
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New Steps and a New Gift
By Mark A. Taylor Every year at Christmastime I look for a way to give something to someone who can’t or won’t give me anything in return. Usually this means an extra offering to a favorite mission, a...
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The Best Cleansing Agent
By Trevor Tolley A picture of the Old Testament sacrificial system isn’t pretty. Scripture says blood from the sacrificed animals was to be sprinkled on the altar, on the utensils used for the...
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Make a Christmas Memory
By Diane Stortz Long before digital photos and decorative paper backgrounds, Mary made the first Christmas scrapbook—in her heart. When Bethlehem’s shepherds heard the astounding news that the Messiah...
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Grateful Response
By H. Lynn Gardner Doctors told me I would die of my pulmonary fibrosis if I did not get a lung transplant. On June 15, 2004, I received a double lung transplant and have been blessed with a 10-year...
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Everyone’s Invited
By Diane Stortz Planning Christmas get-togethers, especially family celebrations, can be challenging. Everyone’s busy. Some family and friends live far away. Some don’t get along. So if we invite Aunt...
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Writing a New Ending
By Diane Stortz We rightly associate faith in Christ with new beginnings—but because of Jesus we can have new endings too. Heaven is a new ending, of course. Death won’t be the final chapter! But what...
View ArticleHe Identifies with Us
By H. Lynn Gardner Jesus shared flesh and blood with us. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of...
View ArticleWhat Does This Meal Mean?
By H. Lynn Gardner Modern Jews eat the Passover meal much the same as God instructed through Moses thousands of years ago. At one point in the ceremonial meal the youngest in the company asks, “Why is...
View ArticleThe Lord’s Supper in the Early Church
By H. Lynn Gardner “On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them” (Acts 20:7*). “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the...
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When We Partake
By H. Lynn Gardner Partaking of the Lord’s Supper is not a meaningless routine ritual. We must partake thoughtfully, and with our minds engaged. Communion should be one of the richest and most...
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The Lamb of God
By C. Robert Wetzel “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!” (Revelation 5:12). How strange it must have seemed to pagans...
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The Cup of Blessing
By C. Robert Wetzel “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?” (1 Corinthians 10:16, King James Version). There are so many rich meanings and experiences in...
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March Madness
By David Ray It’s March, when college basketball takes center stage and provokes spirited debate about who will make it into tournament play. Team records wrangle for attention, brackets are set, and...
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Proclaiming the Lord’s Death
By C. Robert Wetzel “We believe that Jesus died and rose again” (1 Thessalonians 4:14). In a very real sense, participating in the Lord’s Supper is preaching. Preaching is proclamation. The apostle...
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‘Wash Your Hands’
By David Ray When you were little and getting ready to take your seat at the family dinner table, did your mom ask, “Have you washed your hands?” If you had, you probably proudly held them up to show...
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Peace Commission
By Robert F. Hull Jr. According to the Gospel of John, it was at his last meal with the disciples that Jesus offered them the gift of his peace and told them not to be afraid (John 14:27). But that was...
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Remember Your Baptism
By Robert F. Hull Jr. Sometimes we do not see the wealth of our own church practices until we worship with people whose practices differ from ours. From Easter to Pentecost you will hear in many...
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Could You Not Watch?
By Robert F. Hull Jr. In a powerful sermon, Fred Craddock points out that only the reader of Mark’s Gospel really sees Jesus in Gethsemane lying prostrate on the ground and hears him praying for the...
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Believing Is Seeing
By Robert F. Hull Jr. “Seeing is believing,” we say, but in the logic of the Gospel of John, it works the other way around: Believing is seeing. It is true Peter and John did not believe Jesus had...
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