#lord'ssupper

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    Paedo-Baptism Answers The Sacraments and the Institutes: 3 Questions on Calvinist Sacramentology

    Blessed Lord's Day, brothers. I have read John Calvin's Institutes on the sacraments, prompting me to more questions of clarification. 1. Dr. Calvin defines a sacrament as: and further, he says on the sacramental status of the laying on of hands: So, is the laying on of hands a sort-of...
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    The Bronze Serpent - A Type of Sacraments?

    Is this a sacrament / sacrament-like rite? The parallels I have noticed are: - It offers grace (everyone who is bitten shall live) - That grace is acquired through faith (when he looks at it) - It is graciously given from God to his people (Then the Lord said to Moses) The main diffrence I...
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    Fencing the table - by dissmising the non-communing?

    Dr. R. Scott Clark writes in the comments of this 2022 Heidelblog article: This is actually a thought I myself had a few times. The practicalities of dissmising the children aside, what do you all think of the idea? Do any Reformed or other Protestant churches practice such a thing?
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    Geneva vs Zurich (vs. Augsburg) on the supper

    I have started reading around a little on the Lord's Supper, and it seems I might have been "Zwinglian by default", but I am still a little confused... Here are some questions: 1. What is the main difference between Zwingli and Calvin on this issue? What are the main biblical arguments for each...
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    Bread Breaking - The Lord’s Supper

    As my family is working through Exodus, we hit the initiation of The Passover Feast in Exodus 12. In explaining and discussing with my family, I also brought up discussion of the Lord’s Supper. As a family, we are also reading through Van Dixhoorn’s Confessing the Faith, which brought us to the...
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