Christmas is past. For most, that means the holiday season will begin to wind down. Yes, one more less than routine week remains between Christmas and New Year’s Day, but the gift returns and exchanges are already planned, the decor will soon come down to be stored for another year, and life will return to …
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It’s Sunday Again: Approved!
Today the people of God around the world assemble as a grand Christian community and declare His praise and virtue. God is acknowledged and recognized–songs of praise exalt him, his purpose, his wisdom, his compassion, and his love demonstrated in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. The church speaks to God and listens to …
It’s Sunday Again: Remembering
It’s Sunday again. We are traveling again. Another Sunday away from our home church family. Another Sunday away from normal routines, worshiping with part of our extended spiritual family. We love meeting and knowing other Christians, but it is not the same as being “at home.” It’s Sunday again–a good time to reflect upon why …
It’s Sunday Again: Remembering Forward
Sometimes we remember our past and relish the experiences, relationships, and emotions as they were–a part of the fabric of our lives, but something locked in the past. Sometimes we remember and celebrate the past because of its continuing impact in the present and future. These two kinds of remembering, remembering back and remembering forward, …
It’s Sunday Again: The Communion We Share….
For me, Sundays provide time for reflection. What is the nature of the fellowship Christians share? What does it mean that we assemble, that in fact the Greek word for church can also be translated assembly when referring to secular meetings? Is assembly something we do or something we are? How do the shared activities …
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It’s Sunday Again: Eat the Word, Drink the Covenant
Jesus took break, broke it, and gave it to his disciples: “This is my body.” The contemporary church has at times struggled with that concept. We have felt compelled to explain that the bread was not his literal body, or to explain how and when the statement is true. In the history of the church, we can study …
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It’s Sunday Again: Remember What?
We take the phrase often repeated in the Lord’s Supper for granted: Do this in remembrance…. We so often read or quote 1 Cor. 11:23ff that we do not feel the disconnection. Do you know that the phrase also appears in Luke’s gospel? Jesus says to his disciples—before his death!—do this in my remembrance. What …
It’s Sunday Again: He Came, He is Coming
The Hebrew writer summarizes it well at the conclusion of Hebrews 9: He (Christ) has appeared once for all at the end of the ages, so that he might do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Some events are once for all events–like death and the subsequent judgment. So also was Christ’s sacrifice …
It’s Sunday Again: Eucharist
Today it falls my responsibility to share some thoughts as the church surrounds the Table and shares communion. Some churches call the occasion the Eucharist. In churches of Christ (and most Protestant groups), We do not use the term Eucharist frequently, perhaps not at all formally. What is the Eucharist? What does the term mean? …
It’s Sunday Again: The Best Is Yet To Be
Each Lord’s Day, the church assembles to partake of the bread and to drink the fruit of the vine. We do this because of what Jesus taught his disciples just prior to his death. We do it because Jesus participates in the feast in his kingdom. We do this because the early church did it. …