Common “wine” is instituted, of indifferent color, undiluted with water because it is called simply the “fruit of the vine” (Mt. 26:29; Mk. 14:25). Thus the Romanists here without reason urge the mixture of water with the wine, which although according to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On Unleavened Bread In Communion

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on July 9, 2025 | 1 Comment

V. Christ used bread because with the divine blessing it is of all the elements the most efficacious for nourishing and strengthening the body; the most common, the most familiar and to be found everywhere, easily prepared and the most pleasant. However, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast For July 6, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (8): The Teaching on the Lord’s Supper of John Calvin

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on July 6, 2025 | Comment

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Ursinus’ Arguments That “This Is My Body” Is A Promise Of Grace Translated With An Introduction

R. Scott Clark

on July 2, 2025 | 4 Comments

The Heidelberg Reformation Association presents the first ever translation of a brief work on the Lord’s Supper by Zacharias Ursinus and translated by Dr Lee Irons. Continue reading →

Categorized Historical Theology, History of Reformed Theology, Lord’s Supper | Tagged Heinrich Bullinger, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Philipp Melanchthon, Theodore Beza, Zacharias Ursinus | 4 Comments

Heidelcast For June 29, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (7): The Teaching on the Lord’s Supper of Peter Martyr Vermigli

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Heidelcast For June 22, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (6): The Teaching On The Lord’s Supper Of Heinrich Bullinger

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Heidelcast For June 15, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (5): Ulrich Zwingli’s Teaching On The Lord’s Supper

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Heidelcast For June 8, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (4): The Medieval Church On The Lord’s Supper

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Heidelcast For June 1, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (3): The Early Church Fathers on the Lord’s Supper

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Heidelcast For May 25, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (2): What Is A Sacrament And What Does It Do?

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Review: The Lord’s Supper As The Sign and Meal of the New Covenant By Guy Prentiss Waters

Scott McDermand II

on May 8, 2025 | Comment

As a minister who has the privilege of serving the Lord’s Supper on a weekly basis, I would love for more Christians to grow in their appreciation and understanding of what it is, what it does, and why we should want it . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Lord’s Supper, Reviews | Comment

An Ordained Method of Ministry?

Wilson Van Hooser

on May 7, 2025 | 3 Comments

I went to church to hear the gospel but that was not what I heard. What I heard was a Q&A session on tips for marriage. This was a Sunday that stood out to me as a young college student in New . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Lord’s Supper, Means of Grace | 3 Comments

O. Palmer Robertson Against Intinction

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on April 17, 2025 | 4 Comments

Dipping the bread into the wine as a method of distributing and receiving the elements of the Lord’s supper is a matter that has recently come into discussion among some churches. This procedure, commonly called “intinction,” has significance in the life of . . . Continue reading →

The Black Rubric And The Creator-Creature Distinction

R. Scott Clark

on January 24, 2025 | 24 Comments

The “Black Rubric” was so-called because it was set in black print in the 1661–1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. It was first inserted into the Second Edwardian Prayer Book in 1552. It was intended to explain that when communicants . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Creator/creature Distinction, Historical Theology, Lord’s Supper, Recovering the Reformed Confession | Tagged circumstances, communion, Creator/creature distinction, idolatry, Lord’s Supper. elements | 24 Comments

What Should We Think About At The Table?

Brad Isbell

on September 14, 2024

At my church, the Lord’s Supper elements are distributed (the bread then the wine), held, and then the congregants partake in unison to demonstrate the communal nature of the meal. I like this way of doing it though it’s certainly not the only way. . . . Continue reading →

Review: Children At The Lord’s Table? By Cornelis P. Venema (Part Three)

R. Scott Clark

on August 15, 2024 | 3 Comments

According to Venema, the “most important and compelling piece of New Testament evidence that bears on the question of paedocommunion is undeniably 1 Corinthians 11:17–34” (101). This is because this passage is “the most extensive and comprehensive New Testament passage on the . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Covenant Moralism, Covenant Theology, Federal Vision, Lord’s Supper, Paedocommunion, Reviews, Sacraments | Tagged Children at the Lord’s Table, Federal Vision, infant communion, paedocommunion, Venema | 3 Comments

Fencing The Table Or The Scandal Of The Church

R. Scott Clark

on August 14, 2024 | 53 Comments

Perhaps nothing so scandalizes the contemporary (i.e., modern) church as the attempt by the visible church to obey the teaching of Jesus and the teaching of the Apostles concerning the Lord’s Table. I say this for three reasons: 1) recently I have . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Church Discipline, Church Life, I Get Questions, Lord’s Supper, Piety and Practice, Recovering the Reformed Confession | Tagged Church Discipline, communion, Ecclesiology, fencing the table, Recovering the Reformed Confession | 53 Comments

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