Novelty communion

Marc Lloyd posts some excerpts from Keith Mathison about the historic novelty of symbolic memorialism.

Temple and worship

Idly thumbing through my mother’s copy of the Church Times while waiting for some bread to defrost, I happened to notice this week’s book reviews. Lester Grabbe’s latest book on the history of ancient Israel looks to be a fairly standard historical study with not much new to offer.
But it was the second volume [...]

Effectual baptism

There’s a very helpful discussion going on at Best of Both Worlds about the effect or otherwise of baptism, infant or otherwise. Do make sure you read all the comments. I enjoyed this contribution from Tapani Simojoki
There once was a man who said, “No!
This physical stuff’s a no-no.
It’s spirit that flies
Right up to [...]

Jokes about sacraments

Somebody arrived at my blog today having searched for ‘jokes about sacraments’.  I don’t think I know any, but perhaps some of my readers could help this anonymous person out?

(Not) thinking about the sacraments

Over the last couple of years I’ve met a small handful of people who are unbaptised believers and regularly receive the supper. When I express shock and horror at this, they seem surprised. Why should this be a problem?
Well, readers, over to you. How would you answer that?

God’s knitting needles

Who could resist a post with this title? Not me, certainly.
Nothing to do with wool or yarn, everything to do with the body of Christ. Here, at Doug Wilson’s wonderfully titled ‘Blog and Mablog.’