Communion Meditation
God with Us
By J. Randal Matheny (June 29, 2008)
At his birth, Jesus was announced by the angel as Emmanuel, "God with us," quoting Isaiah 7:14. With his dying breath, our Lord cried in agony, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?", his excruciating question directly from Psalm 22:1.
We Get Over Things
By J. Randal Matheny (June 15, 2008)
The New Zealander Frank Boreham wrote, "We get over things." He's right. In fact, we do get over things. At least, the majority of us. Most of the time. ...
Appeasement
By J. Randal Matheny (May 18, 2008)
Politics is astir with the word "appeasement." President George W. Bush used it last Thursday when he addressed the Israeli Knessit on the sixtieth anniversary of that country. He said to the members of that parliament, ...
I Come to Communion
By Guest Writer (April 20, 2008)
I come to communion not because I am worthy, not for any righteousness of my own, for I have grievously sinned and fallen short of what by God's help I might have been. I come not because there is any magic in partaking of the symbols of Christ's body and blood. ...
The God of All Comfort
By J. Randal Matheny (April 13, 2008)
Five times. In one long sentence of the opening of 2 Corinthians, Paul uses the noun or verb form of "comfort" five times. Perhaps in the previous letter he had written, which may not have been preserved and would be the "sorrowful letter" he mentions in 2:4, great pain had been caused among the Corinthian saints. ...
The True Beauty of the Cross
By J. Randal Matheny (April 13, 2008)
As I look at the crosses on our communionware I'm struck by their beauty. They are smooth and polished. The metal on ours is intended to look like silver but in some cases they are intended to look like gold. Some have little decorations. ...
WE'RE GOING TO HEAVEN!
By Guest Writer (April 6, 2008)
While the family and I were in Dallas visiting family, I took my children to Six Flags. It's an amusement park, like Elitch Gardens. And I remember the anticipation my children had just thinking about how much fun it was going to be. We went and had a great day at the park. So much so, that we bought season passes so they could go to Six Flags for free every time we went to Dallas for the rest of this year. ...