[This is Week 3 of a 4-week preaching series on Sacraments.]

The Lord’s Supper
The Lord’s table, with its supper of bready body and blood-red wine, is a place where we are invited, as the old table-song-summons sings it, “to come and dine, the Master calls us.”

Here again the celebration of the Lord’s Supper creates what is sometimes called “liminal space,” space which God creates using the concrete elements with a word of Promise, in order to meet us, feed us, forgive us, bring us together. And, just as importantly, this space, this place, is where we can encounter the living God -- to meet, and know, be transformed by Christ Jesus.

Week 3: Aug. 27, 2017 [Lord's Supper]

Preaching text: Psalm 65; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Psalm 65 praises God, and in so doing tells us -- by telling God -- that “Happy are those whom you choose and bring near to live in your courts.” Here again place is in play. And in God’s place, in God’s courts, house, temple, the promise is that “we ...