Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 43 Q & A 96 Q What is the Lord’s Supper? A The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ’s appointment, his death is showed forth;*1 and the worthy receivers are, not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by …

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Having bought Zac Hick’s latest album, Without Our Aid, I’ve been nosing around his website, which contains posts on various aspects of corporate worship, detailed album reviews and other resources. Here’s a recent post on the difference between worshipping God and worshipping worship: “Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things.”  …

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Brian Chapell is a skilled Bible teacher and preacher, author and president of Covenant Theological Seminary. The link on his daily devotional page, Living Christ Today now works in my Google Reader, a recent and welcome development. I hope it continues. The devotions are short excerpts from various books by Chapell, but each features a …

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Without knowledge of church history and biography our doctrinal understanding will lack depth and context. From Mark Rogers on Andy Naselli’s blog. 1. Theological Millard Erickson is right, “History is theology’s laboratory, in which it can assess the ideas that it espouses or considers espousing.” (Christian Theology, 28). Church history shows us our theological blind …

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