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Communion, Lord’s Supper: Taking it in an Unworthy Manner?

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by Elizabeth Prata

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If you are a believing, regular church goer you more than likely take Communion. This ordinance established by Jesus involves eating the bread and drinking the wine. Some churches use pieces of bread, others use crackers or pre-made wafers for the occasion. Some use wine and others use juice. Some stay in their pews and are passed a large plate from which they pluck the elements, others walk to the front and pick them up themselves.

However you take Communion, it is a meaningful and important ordinance, one of only two the Lord Himself established for believers: the other being baptism.

We read about Communion in 1 Corinthians 11,

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Of Cemeteries and Monuments

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By Elizabeth Prata

I like visiting cemeteries. I always have. I grew up next to a large one. It was beautiful and even had a beautiful name. Stone columns adorned either side of the entry and a babbling brook ran in front and all along the side. Gentle hills were fun to swoop my bike down and were not hard to pedal up. Huge pine trees looking like Christmas trees allowed a solitude-seeking girl to part the boughs and lay inside the greenery on a bed of pine needles, reading Nancy Drew, at once protected and apart from the world. I liked that cemetery for its quietude, but I was not yet old enough to really ponder the eternality of those residing in it, under the ground.

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Devotionals

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By Elizabeth Prata

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I post a devotional every day on my social media (Twitter, The End Time blog Facebook page, Instagram, MeWe, and Gab). My favorite devotionals are from The Valley of Vision. I heartily recommend the book!

There are a lot of devotionals out there. Lots. Many people don’t read devotionals, and that’s OK. It’s better to read the Bible and not devotionals than to read devotionals and not the Bible! But if you are of a devotional frame of mind, there are some I recommend.

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Jesus is the door: what do these famous testimonies reveal about their understanding of Christ?

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I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. (John 10:9)

This is one of the famous I AM statements by Jesus. Here they all are.

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The Most Terrifying Thing God Can Do: In which I testify to God’s grace in saving me

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In the past, Tim Challies posted an article titled The Most Terrifying Thing God Can Do. It’s a terrifying article. It crushed me reading it and apparently it did for many others as well. I saw this article referred to and re-posted numerous times.

The most terrifying thing God can do is to turn an unsaved person over to his sin. Having just gone through Romans 1 in my Sunday School class, I was starkly reminded again of God giving them over to their sin. It’s stated three times at the end of the chapter. This again clutched my heart with terror and grief. Sin is such a powerful drug, a terrifying trap.

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Discernment: Can we be TOO cautious or TOO critical?

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By Elizabeth Prata

Here is a question: Can a person be too critical or too cautious in discernment?

I was asked this recently. I answered: yes. And no. It depends on what the person saying ‘you’re too critical’ or, ‘you’re too cautious’ means by the words cautious and critical.

The Bible says we are to test everything and hold on to the good. but examine everything; hold firmly to that which is good, 22 abstain from every form of evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

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Encouragement in Christ

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By Elizabeth Prata

I was reading Genesis 24. It was about Abraham’s servant Eliezer being charged by Abraham to go to his homeland to get a bride for Isaac. And Eliezer met Rebekah at the well and Eliezer worshiped the LORD and Rebekah agreed to become Isaac’s bride. It was really beautiful how the providential ordination of events played out. It was a comfort to read how God is SOOO in control, since time immemorial to now, even with the seeming chaos of the attacks and natural disasters and politics etc..

The great thing about God’s word is that no matter what you read, the Holy Spirit has a way of energizing our mind with it and comforting our heart. The Word IS living and active and it’s a miracle how He can use God’s word in any situation to instruct, comfort, rebuke, or convict!

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Our Great Shepherd: His care and love are everlasting

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‎By Elizabeth Prata

In biblical times, a shepherd’s main concern was the welfare of the flock. Providing the sheep with food and waters as well as guarding them from predators and thieves were primary responsibilities. Highlighting this relationship, Jesus says in the scripture, “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” (John 10:11). [from Logos Bible Software]

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