Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: Godthe second title in The Good Portion series.

The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works. 

                     

Thursday
Jul162009

Recommended for Listening XVI

Romans 5:12-21 is not an easy passage to understand. The argument is complex and hard to follow, but John Piper explains it, carefully, in this series of sermons.

Wednesday
Jul152009

Round the Sphere Again

Strength in Suffering
Tim Challies has posted an interview with Terry Stauffer. Terry Stauffer is the pastor of Edson Baptist Church in Edson, Alberta, whose 14-year-old daughter was murdered last fall.

Church History
More on Calvin from The Crusty Curmudgeon.

Catching Up
With Sherry’s Top 100 Hymn Project.

Book Giveaway
Enter the draw at Here I Blog for Godology: Because Knowing God Changes Everything by Christian George.

Wednesday
Jul152009

How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's supper feed upon the body and blood of Christ therein?

As the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or carnally present in, with, or under the bread and wine in the Lord’s supper,[1] and yet are spiritually present to the faith of the receiver, no less truly and really than the elements themselves are to their outward senses;[2] so they that worthily communicate in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, do therein feed upon the body and blood of Christ, not after a corporal and carnal, but in a spiritual manner; yet truly and really,[3] while by faith they receive and apply unto themselves Christ crucified, and all the benefits of his death.[4]

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