February 27, 2025
Probably the most beloved and memorized Psalm in the modern world, Psalm 23 is filled with wonderful images and metaphors that function are multiple layers: salvation history, communal stories, and personal testimony. At the center lies the assurance, “You are with me!” Immanuel. God is with us–to protect, guide, nourish, welcome, host, and commune. Bobby […]
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July 13, 2024
This is a communion meditation based on 1 Corinthians 11:27. What does it mean to eat and drink unworthily? To participate in an unworthy manner is to be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. That is a serious concern, and it is worth our meditation and reflection. For more, see this blog. […]
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
June 24, 2024
This communion mediation is based on 1 Corinthians 10:16. It discusses the meaning of “This is my body” through the lens of 1 Corinthians 10:16. What is the meaning of “is”? What is its meaning for the table of the Lord?
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June 20, 2024
A communion meditation based on Matthew 26:30. Jesus and his disciples sang the Egyptian Hallel (Psalm 113-118) or some portion of it.
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Posted by John Mark Hicks
March 30, 2023
J. M. R. Tillard, Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ: At the Source the Ecclesiology of Communion, trans. Madeleine Beaumount (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2001). I have now read the fourth of twelve books suggested by FB friends. This one was recommended by Reece LaBlanc. This is my summary; and this one is […]
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September 29, 2022
Days 2-4 in Around the Bible in Eighty Days Texts: John 17:24-26; Isaiah 66:1-2; Genesis 1:1-2, 31 Why did God create the world? I think it is for the same reason God sent the Son into the world. And it is this: to include humanity in the communion of God’s own love. That perhaps offers […]
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February 28, 2018
For many the Holy Spirit is an impersonal, imperceptible, and indiscernible force. Cloaked in mystery, many find it difficult to “get a handle” on the Spirit. The Spirit has no “face” like Jesus nor any personal metaphors, such as parent, mother, or husband, like Israel’s God. Our desire, of course, is not so much to […]
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