May 19, 2025
Pausing to Remember
Communion provides a pause each Lord’s Day to refresh us and to encourage us to run our race faithfully for Jesus “until he comes” (1 Corinthians 11:26).
May 19, 2025
Communion provides a pause each Lord’s Day to refresh us and to encourage us to run our race faithfully for Jesus “until he comes” (1 Corinthians 11:26).
May 12, 2025
Before we come to the Lord’s Table, let’s each examine our heart and our life. Now is the time to repent of any sin and ask God’s forgiveness for time and materials we’ve wasted.
May 5, 2025
Eve was granted the privilege of living up to her name, for she became “mother of the Living One,” Christ Jesus, who destroyed the devil’s work (1 John 3:8).
As we partake of the Lord's Supper, we’re reminded that the same Jesus who met fishermen by the sea, who called tax collectors and sinners to follow him, is meeting students in lecture halls and late-night study sessions today.
April 21, 2025
It may renew and encourage us when we take Communion to think back to the day of our baptism into Christ, when we came forth from our own tomb and our own record of sins was wiped clean.
April 14, 2025
As you take Communion, thank God that when the stone was moved, the tomb was empty.
April 7, 2025
Jesus’ body was broken, but by that brokenness the road to the New Jerusalem was completed and the broken bond between God and humanity was repaired.
March 31, 2025
Easter and Christmas are the two most recognized Christian holidays. Consider the different outcomes of Christmas and Easter by reflecting on how Jesus “came out” of, first, the womb of Mary at his birth; and second, the tomb at his resurrection.
March 24, 2025
As we come to the table of the Lord, we come to what we truly need the most—to the only Savior, Sanctifier, Lord, and Giver of Eternal Life. Let’s celebrate him today.
March 17, 2025
When earthly death arrives for Christians—God’s people—God sees they are washed in the blood of the Lamb, and he passes over their sins forever, and they live eternally in Heaven.
March 10, 2025
As we participate in this sacred commemoration of the Lord’s death, may each of us pursue a more intense involvement in the sufferings of Christ.
March 3, 2025
As we come into this sacred time, let us remember that our Savior exhibited the greatest love ever known when he went to the cross to atone for our sins.
February 24, 2025
Communion is a meal that is not really filling to our bodies (we take just a small piece of bread and a small cup of juice). It is, however, ful-filling.
February 17, 2025
This part of our worship was initiated by Jesus’ own hands and mouth. As we partake, let’s remember his death as God’s atonement for our sins.
February 10, 2025
This small act of our obedience is a large step of faith. In eating and drinking we proclaim that Jesus the Son of God loved each of us enough to die for our sins.
February 3, 2025
As we partake of the loaf and the cup, we remember the One who loved us enough to die for us. Let us strive to love as he loved so we can be as close to him as possible.
January 27, 2025
The observance of Communion each Lord’s Day should remind us that the strength of our union, the glue that holds it together, is not in us—far from it. It’s in Jesus and Jesus alone.
January 20, 2025
Because of The Savior's all-sufficient sacrifice, we are set for life—eternal life.
January 13, 2025
Just as the repeating of the presidential oath of office takes only a few seconds, it takes only seconds to take the emblems of Communion and to reaffirm our loyalty to Jesus.
January 6, 2025
Each Lord’s Day we can receive encouragement and spiritual strength through the nourishment provided by Communion as we take these emblems in remembrance of our Savior