Posts from January 2026
Sunday (1/25) Service Cancelled
Dear church, This is now the second week in a row we are having to cancel our worship service due to snow. Lord willing, next week we will be able to gather and worship in person. Our annual business meeting will be on 2/1, with a snow date set for 2/8. Times like these are frustrating, but they also provide us an occasion to reflect, and so I would like to offer a few reflections, encouragements, and exhortations for us…
Is weekly communion a Catholic thing?
Is weekly communion a Catholic thing? That is a question some of you may have, and it is a justified one. After all, for some of you that may be the only context in which you have experienced weekly communion. The contemporary Roman Catholic church does indeed celebrate their mass weekly. But in this brief article I want to make the case that weekly communion is not a Roman Catholic thing. We are not interested in becoming more Roman Catholic…
Who is the Lord’s Supper for?
This week, we will consider the question – who is the Lord’s Supper for? Last week, we saw that the Lord’s Supper is the ordinance or sacrament of ongoing fellowship in the New Covenant assembly, the church. It follows, then, that the Lord’s Supper is for those who have fellowship in the New Covenant, that is, who are members of Christ’s body, the church. The ordinary order then, is baptism (ordinance of entrance into the New Covenant assembly) followed by…
What is the Lord’s Supper?
Simply put, the Lord’s Supper is the ordinance or sacrament of ongoing fellowship in the New Covenant assembly, the church. But what do we mean by sacrament or ordinance? John Calvin helpfully describes a sacrament as “A testimony of divine grace toward us, confirmed by an outward sign, with mutual attestation of our piety toward him.”[1] An ordinance is another term for the same reality, highlighting that it was ordained by Christ during His earthly ministry. Jesus Christ instituted the…