Today, as never before, the practice of the Lord’s Supper stands in jeopardy. There are many who are questioning its significance. Others are trivializing its importance. Some, who tell us that “new wineskins” are needed, are now celebrating the Lord’s Supper on Wednesday evenings, or at birthday parties and wedding anniversaries.1 Others allege that the […]
The Lord Jesus, when here on the earth, was the only perfect Man this world has ever seen. He was all and always perfect, under the eye of God and before men–perfect in thought, perfect in word, and perfect in action. In Him every moral quality met, and this in perfect proportion and manifestation. No […]
When I was a boy, we always sat in a circle to remember the Lord. Or at least they sat in the circle–I was not in fellowship so I sat “at the back” with those who had not been received by the assembly. There was a definite “in” and “out” to the assembly in those […]
“The Lord’s Supper”–these words occur at the conclusion of 1 Corinthians 11:20, and refer to one of the three symbolic ordinances given to the Church in the New Testament. I would like to ask you to consider what I believe to be an accurate translation (not a paraphrase, but a translation) of these words, which […]
It is God the Father of whom the Lord speaks to the Samaritan woman–the One who is God in nature and Father in relationship. The name Father seldom occurs in the Old Testament and is never there in the New Testament sense. As used in the Old Testament, The Triune God is spoken of as […]
I have never read Looking Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, but there is a line from it in one of my books of quotations. Harry Tugman (whoever he is) is asking Luke where he is presently stationed. The response goes like this: “At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base,” Luke answered, “m-m-making […]
Ephesians 4 could be called The Peacekeeping Treatise where we have the four essentials regarding peace. The first is the essential command to peace (vv. 1-3): “I…beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavoring to keep the […]
The premiere issue of The Barley Cake (Jan. 1881), the first North American assembly magazine, announced the fifth Hamilton, ON, conference. By inference the first was held in 1877. Assessment of the conference, in the direct style of the editor, Donald Ross, followed in the February issue: “A considerable number of Christians from the province […]
The importance and value of biblical preaching is illustrated in the experience of Ezra: “Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel” (Ezra 7:10). These three activities are most important, and so is the sequence in which they occur. […]