Avoiding Extremes at Communion

Avoiding Extremes at Communion

Let us take heed to ourselves in the matter of the Lord’s supper. It is easy to err about it on either side. On the one hand, we are not to be content with staying away from the Lord’s table under the vague plea of unfitness. As long as we so stay away, we are...
Calvin on Lay Baptism

Calvin on Lay Baptism

… It is improper for private individuals to take upon themselves the administration of baptism; for it, as well as the dispensation of the Supper, is part of the ministerial office. For Christ did not give command to any men or women whatever to baptize  but to...
Basics of the Lord’s Supper

Basics of the Lord’s Supper

1. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord’s Supper, to be observed in his church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death; the...
Preparing for Communion

Preparing for Communion

How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper to prepare themselves before they come unto it? They that receive the sacrament of the Lord’s supper are, before they come, to prepare themselves thereunto, by examining themselves [1] of their being in...
A Better Case for “Infant Baptism”

A Better Case for “Infant Baptism”

By OPC Minister William Shishko October 19, 2006, brought a long-awaited “great debate” between Dr. James White and myself on the topic, “Resolved: The subjects of Christian baptism are only those who have personally repented and believed in Jesus...