Communion is a whole church gathering event.  Not home groups.  Not family groups, not for groups of friends.  To share communion like that is actually a denial of what communion symbolises. But we also need to guard against becoming too familiar with this meal and its symbolism. There’s a danger of that happening for us... Continue Reading

In a subsistence society, no large fields, no mega farms, but family sized plots, this was radical trust in God, a celebration of the future faithfulness of God in the first fruits of a harvest the he will provide. It’s a helpful reminder that God provides.     How do we avoid entitlement and its... Continue Reading

Pernicious entitlement is also a danger for us spiritually.  It leads us to a life of thankless grumbling that refuses to acknowledge God’s good gifts, instead taking them, and his goodness for granted.  Spiritual pernicious entitlement saps faith like a mosquito drawing blood and replacing it with it’s viral load.   We have a problem... Continue Reading