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The Excommunication of Ronald Reagan

The Excommunication of Ronald Reagan

Jun 9, 2011

Can a person with Alzheimer's receive Communion? What role does understanding play in the action of grace?

A Baptist asks a good question

A Baptist asks a good question

Sep 21, 2009

What are the actual historical evidences, before Zwingli, for the Baptist view of the Lord’s Supper? Long story short: No answer. If there are evidences, then someone needs to write a book, asap. It’s long overdue.

On “the communion of saints”

On “the communion of saints”

Sep 8, 2009

“All the company of heaven” means everybody we ever loved and lost, including the ones we didn’t know we loved until we lost them or didn’t love at all. It means people we never heard of. It means everybody who ever did – or at some unimaginable time in the future ever will – come together at something like this table in search of something like what is offered at it...

Rob Bell and Don Golden on eucharist and the new humanity

Rob Bell and Don Golden on eucharist and the new humanity

Sep 7, 2009

A church is not a center for religious goods and services, where people pay a fee and receive a product in return. A church is not an organization that surveys its demographic to find out what the market is demanding at this particular moment and then adjusts its strategy to meet that consumer niche. The way of Jesus is the path of descent.

The body of Christ

The body of Christ

Aug 26, 2008

The body which was born of the Virgin Mary, without any stain, without destruction of her virginity, without opening of the womb, without presence of man, and which was crucified and which arose after three days from death...

Justin Martyr describes Christian worship (c.150 AD)

Justin Martyr describes Christian worship (c.150 AD)

May 26, 2008

I will relate the manner in which we dedicated ourselves to God when we had been made new through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair in the explanation we are making. As many as are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, are instructed to pray and to entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins that are past, we praying and fasting with them...