The Scottish Communion Season
Preparing for the Lord’s Supper
Weekly Communion: One Church's Experiment
How often should communion be celebrated in communal worship? This article reflects on one church's experiment with weekly communion.
Old-Fashioned Innovations: There's More Than One Way to Celebrate the Lord's Supper
Each congregation ought to reflect on how it celebrates communion. The way the elements are distributed should not be out of custom or superstition, but for sound theological and pastoral reasons. This article surveys some of the practices in the time of the Reformation.
Chalice and Loaf or Cups and Cubes
This article reflects on the celebration of communion in the Reformed tradition. Is there something sacred about wine, or is grape juice an acceptable alternative? Are there rules about whether the bread should be leavened or unleavened, store-bought or home-baked, white or wheat? Is a chalice more meaningful than a tray full of small cups? Who should bring the elements to the table—and when?
Let's Put the Communion Back into Christmas
The Church Order of Dort (1618) calls for Christmas Communion. This article reflects on the old tradition of celebrating communion during the Christmas season.
Communing with the Holy Spirit
This article outlines what communion with the Holy Spirit looks like, as well as its result.
Be Still and Know That He Is Good
The heart of Christian meditation is the enjoyment of the presence of God combined with the joy experienced in praising the Lord. Meditation is therefore an act of worship, an act of seeking communion with the living God.
John Owen: Communion with the Triune God
The Golden Key of Prayer
No Christian can dispute the necessity of prayer. Why is prayer so important? Focusing on Jeremiah 33:3, the author shows that prayer has a double effect on the believer. Firstly, prayer is is communion with God, and secondly, prayer is enlightenment for the soul. God uses prayer to strengthen our faith in His faithfulness to fulfill His promises.
The Intermediate State (4)
This is the fourth of six articles about the intermediate state, death, and what happens when Christians die. This article maintains that after death believers have uninterrupted covenant communion with Jesus Christ. Christians must guard this doctrine under the threat of naturalism and modernism.The article also looks at the idea of soul sleep.
Communion Everybody is doing it ... But what exactly is it that we’re doing?
1 Corinthians 10:16 - Communion With Christ
1 Corinthians 10:16 reveals that the heart of the Lord's Supper is communion with Christ as a result of His redemptive work. Understanding Holy Communion in this way has implications for those partaking in it. The Lord's Supper must be viewed as a seal of the covenant of grace.
The Body of Christ
This article looks at the implications of the Lord's Supper on church membership. Through the Lord's Supper we are taught that communion with Christ results in communion with other believers. This is what it means to be the body of Christ, as stated in 1 Corinthians 10:17.
The Sinkhole Syndrome
What Familiarity Must Not Breed
More Frequent Observance of the Lord's Supper
Angels at Church
The Missing Ingredient
Celebration of the Lord’s Supper – How often?
This article is about the frequency with which the Lord's Supper should be celebrated. It also looks at the frequency of the Lord's Supper through church history, and the communion at the love meals.
The Lord's Supper - Part 1
These two articles are about the Lord's Supper as sacrament and the relation of the Passover and the Lord's Supper. The author also discusses the Lord's Supper in the Reformed confessions, the relation of the Last Supper and the Lord's Supper, and communion and table fellowship.