Celebration! (Holy Communion)

Discussions in regard to Holy Communion

The Door She Could Not Shut

Behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon–possessed.”    Matthew 15:22 My dad’s sermon startled me.  I have been scanning files into the computer over the last years and so there are about 30 files […]

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The Best Part

Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk Without money and without price.         Isaiah 55:1 Virginia Burke, a chaplain at the Good Samaritan Society assisted living facilities, once wrote in a devotion on this passage: One Sunday morning, Karl

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Opened All The Scriptures Concerning Himself

But we were hoping that it was He Who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day since these things happened.  Yes, and certain women of our company, who arrived at the tomb early, astonished us.  When they did not find His body, they came saying that they had

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Thomas, Peter, Us – Confronting the Resurrection

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”  So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”                    John 20:25 It seems

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You are There – Maundy Thursday

…”Take, eat; this is My Body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” … “This cup is the New Covenant in My Blood.  This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”                             I Corinthians 11:24-25 So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall

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Temptation and Joy

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.             Genesis 3:6 Alexander MacLaren, in a sermon entitled “Faith Tested

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Transfiguration Contrasts

A Voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased; listen to Him.”  When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces, and were terribly afraid.  But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.”              Matthew 17:5-7 (1-9) Three disciples went up a

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I have labored in vain, for nothing and vanity

He said to me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in Whom I will be glorified.” But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely My cause is with the LORD, and My reward with My God.”              Isaiah 49:3-4  [1-6] The author, A.J. Cronin, once told

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