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A Table That Opens to the Kingdom of Heaven

In a day and age when many do not know who they are or whose they are, we come to a table that reminds us of both. This is the table of the Lord. And those who eat and drink here are members of his body and belong to him. 

The Heidelberg Catechism says that by church discipline the kingdom of heaven is opened to believers and shut to unbelievers. It goes on to explain that this church discipline involves the sacraments, particularly withholding the sacraments from those who rebel against our Lord.

It follows that those of you who come to partake of this table are members of the kingdom of heaven. As the wardrobe opened Narnia to the Pevensie children so this table opens the kingdom of heaven to you. 

So come joyfully. Be done with your doubts and fears about who you are and whose you are. Be done with your laughable worries about whether you are in or out. You’re a blood-bought child of the King. You are in. That is why Jesus says to you at this table, “This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

Since you are in the kingdom of heaven, you all must live as members of the kingdom of heaven. So as you come to this table, putting away your doubts and fears, put away your sins as well, your pride, self-confidence, lusts, envy, bitterness, slander, money-loving, and selfishness. You are not coming to a natural table. You’re coming to the table that opens the kingdom of heaven to believers and closes that kingdom to unbelievers. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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Parental Horse Sense: Lesson 4 – Feast! Feast! Feast! I Say.

I should begin by telling you that I am a firm believer in the fact that a good coach delivering a good pep talk before the game can change the course of the contest. His team may just win if his pre-game rouser is on key. The same goes for kings as they ride before their men on horseback before battle. The flip-side is also true. If these moments are botched, if coach goes to telling long stories about how he comported himself in his championship days, then all of a sudden, the boys are drained; the spirit is quenched, the gusto is zapped. 

Spurgeon said somewhere, while renouncing lengthy prayers, that he once knew a minister who could pray him right into a good frame of mind, and then pray him right out of it. Many a coach has erred in this fashion. But I don’t have the time to decry the parental problem of rambling on, I myself am now drifting down a side road. Back to the main line.

The spirit (and the matter) of your dinner table is far more important than you think it is. That blessed and highly favored meal at the end of the day can be your best parental friend or your worst parental enemy. Whatever it is, it is a time of discovery. You need only be a fly on the wall for a few minutes at dinner hour to know how a family is doing. 

Is dad spaced out at the table? Is he busy returning missed text messages from earlier in the day? Or is his face turned toward his children? Did mom burn the biscuits? Or did she get the biscuits just right and snuff out all of the children’s joy in the process by snapping at them like a prodded lobster? — “Serves the little devils right for coming in Michelin-mom’s kitchen while I’m making Cordon Bleu!” 

Are the children happy to be at this table? Do they like their food? Do they eat their food even if it is not their favorite? How does everyone respond when the toddler drops her fork for the fifth time? Then there is the conversation. Does it roll along well enough or drag? Are there any laughs at this dinner table? Are these eaters genuinely interested in the conversation? Is there a lively debate? 

If you’re out of fellowship, dinner shows it. If you talk too much, your fellow diners will know. If you’re a grumpy muffin, there’s no chance of getting through this bread-breaking fellowship while keeping that attitude concealed. Ah, dinner, the revealer of mysteries.

So, parents should take advantage of this evening scouting report. But there’s much more to be said. You have to do more than just observe at this table. I titled this post, “Feast, Feast, Feast, I Say.” And that is just what you should do. Make your dinner table a place where the children want to be, a place where you want to be. The work involved is not small. 

It starts with a mom (and dad) who knows that kitchen knives are not in vain, and neither is the grocery list. The goal is not to make your family dinner look like a five star restaurant every night. But neither is the goal to make it look like whatever is under those heat lamps at the 7/11. You don’t need to break the bank. But parents do have to know that the food a mother puts on the table for her family matters. That is why the cooking of that food is fraught with temptation to idolatry and despair. God has called mothers to walk that glorious road and it is walked by the Spirit’s power. There are not high enough words to honor mother in the kitchen. The woman fed these children in her womb for months. She nursed them for months after that. And for a remarkable amount of years following, God sees fit to answer our prayer for daily bread by delivering it to us through her hands. Mothers, your cooking is not in vain. 

While mom is the head chef, dad shouldn’t be ignorant of the kitchen. There are not many things more glorious than getting the whole family in there on a weekend, preparing dinner together. Turn some music on. Feed the kids bits and pieces as you prepare the feast. Investigate the ingredients. Talk about where they came from. God made this world that you’re enjoying. One of the duties parents have is that of teaching their children how to enjoy God’s good world. And as Robert Capon has said, don’t forget the candy—”The child’s preference for sweets over spinach, mankind’s universal love of the toothsome rather than the nutritious is the mark of our greatness . . . The world is no disposable ladder to heaven. Earth is not convenient, it is good; it is, by God’s design, our lawful love.”

Once you’re around the table, aim for a conversation that is pleasing to the Lord. Now is not a time to coast in the parenting department. Your dinner dates with your children are not altogether different from your hospitality dinners when hosting guests. You are dad and mom. If you’re not interested and interesting, then how can you expect the kiddos to be? If you’re slumpy, disconnected, gloomy, and selfish at this meal, then you will likely reap what you sow. 

But, by the same token, if you love the family through this time of eating and drinking, if you enjoy yourself as you spend yourself for them, then you will find this same sowing and reaping principle turned in your favor.

I’ll close with by commending this simple rule to fathers: Make your wife and children laugh wholesomely at dinner. Be interested enough in them and the world around you to see the silly things and say them for the enjoyment of your family. Yes, yes, you are weighed down with a load of responsibilities. But that is why God gave you the widest shoulders at the table. It is likely that your wife has taken your hard earned money and turned it into this very nice meal. There she is, getting your body and soul through another day, and your children to boot. That is a thought that lifts the spirits. So lift the spirits of the table in turn. Not with slander, worry, or a domineering hand. But with a spring in your step, a twinkle in your eye that can only come from the life-giving spirit.

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If You Do Not Go Up With Us

Our Christian growth often stalls because we forget that the power of Christ rest upon us. We know which direction we want to go. We have counted the cost involved in order to get there. But our progress is not what it ought to be because we have forgotten what Moses remembered in the wilderness. God told Moses to go up with Israel to the Promised Land. Moses replied, “If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence” (Exodus 33:15). 

Moses’ sentiment was, “Lord, your power and glory is upon me here. You meet with me face to face like a man speaks to his friend. I enter this tabernacle to meet with you, the cloud descends, and my face shines with your glory. Quite frankly, Lord, as eager as I am to see all of your promises come to pass, if your presence will not go up with us into Canaan’s Land, we simply can’t go.” Moses was a wise man. And God’s response was not, “Moses you just do what I tell you when I tell you.” God was not upset with Moses’ insistence that God’s presence rest upon him. He was happy to say, “I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name” Exodus 33:17).

If you want things set right (your family, mind, business, attitude), if you want to slay giants in the Promised Land and eat the swollen fruit in those parts, then you have to know more than the directions; you must have more than a really well thought-out game plan, several good examples, and a history of making pretty good decisions.

You need the power of Christ to rest upon you. We have not because we ask not. And just what might happen if we do ask? 

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Far Better Than a Fenced Table

It is common for Christians to talk about ministers fencing the Lord’s Table. And we really can do better with our word pictures. It is easy for this image to become quite displeasing. One imagines a high chain link fence running right along the edges of a table, forbidding anyone from enjoying the meal. The minister is tying off the last of this chain link with some barbed wire on top as if the Table is a prisoner and you’ve got little to no chance of obtaining visiting rights.

How different the picture is when Christ first instituted this meal. For he was not inside a fence. He was inside a room, reclined, eating and drinking with those He loved. 

We are not opposed to a boarder around this table, but that boarder is the Living Stones of the Temple of God. The Heidelberg Catechism we recited earlier says that this table is not for the enemies of God and we could not agree more. The reason the enemies of God are not to eat and drink is because “then the covenant of God would be profaned and his wrath provoked against the whole congregation.” 

That “whole congregation” is in the room. That “whole congregation” is at table with the Lord. That “whole congregation” is sanctified by the blood of the covenant. How then could they be excluded from the blood of the covenant which is found in this cup? If the cup has sanctified them, why can it not touch their lips?

All of you baptized Christians are loved by God from the littlest of you to the greatest. And this table is for you. You are in the house of God and that is the boundary of this table. It is a beautiful house, far better than a fence. And the table right here at the center of it is furnished with the Bread of Life Himself. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ. 

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Parental Horse Sense: Lesson 3 — Raise Them as Insiders (Even When They Botch It)

In his work The City of God, Augustine explains that all mankind falls into one of two categories: the city of God or the city of man. To be in the city of God is to have God as Father and Christ as Savior. A citizen of this city shares in the Holy Spirit. But to be in the city of man is to be an enemy of God, a stranger and an exile without hope and without God in the world (Ephesians 2:12). In a time when the spirit of the age wants to chop up humanity into an endless array of intersectional divisions, it is refreshing to return to the fundamental division, the division of all divisions: the city of God and the city of man. 

Now this series of posts is on parental horse sense so the paragraph above is simply setting the stage for the question: Which city are your kids in? You are in the city of God. Are they? You have God as Father. Do they? When you’re holding your little newborn, or helping that toddler walk her way across the living room, are they in the same city you are in? The answer to that question is yes, they are with you in the city of God.

Let’s say you’re sitting around the dinner table with the family and you’re singing the old Gaither hymn The Family of God. You’ve got a litter of kids from 14 years old down to the one year old in the high chair. The whole family sings the chorus, 

I’m so glad I’m a part of the family of God, 

I’ve been washed in the fountain cleansed by his blood.

Joint heirs with Jesus as we travel this sod,

For I’m part of the family the family of God.

Now, your fourteen year old blurts out before the song is over, “Hey, dad, is that true? Are we all a part of the family of God, even little Bobby over there in the high chair incoherently babbling along with us?” 

My point is that you have solid biblical warrant to say, “Why yes son, all of us are a part of the family of God, including little Bobby. God is our Father, Christ is our High Priest, the Spirit is our Comforter. God is our God and we are His people.”

I recall reading a Christian parenting book many years ago which addressed how parents should speak to a child who had the wiggles during family prayer. The counsel placed the child thoroughly outside of the city of God. It ran along the lines of, “We understand that you don’t want to pray. And we’re glad you’re not faking it. We will pray that God changes your heart in the future. But for now, you have to sit quietly while we pray.” 

That counsel, quite apparently, puts distance between parent and child. And that counsel flows from thinking that the distance is there. We (the parents) are in the city of God, while you (the child) are outside of that city, still in the city of man. 

There are many texts that could underscore that our children are insiders. But one of the best ones is Isaiah 65:23 “They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.” God speaks through the prophet saying plainly that his people are the seed of the blessed of the Lord. And then what about the offspring? The text is clear. They too are the seed of the blessed of the Lord. They too are children of God. 

If a child is getting out of sorts, then the response is not to panic, or parent as if he is outside the camp. Rather this is just the time when you remind him who he belongs to, who his Father is, and what Jesus has done for him. You are a part of the family of God kid, and we just don’t do that kind of thing. There is a high calling on your life so let’s get on with repenting and believing. 

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A Poor and Contrite Spirit

One of the temptations that naturally comes with God’s blessing is that of thinking that you got that blessing by your own strength. We imagine that the blessings are just out there for the taking, and, hey, I woke up early, I stayed up late, I used my resources in the right way and that’s how I got where I am. 

The Apostle Paul puts a stick of dynamite in that way of thinking when he says, “For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it” (1 Corinthians 4:7)?

This temptation is strong because we do reap what we sow. Proverbs does say, “the hand of the diligent shall rule.” But, where did you get your seed? Where did you get your diligence? Where did you get your field? 

We who want to work each day for the Lord, we who want to do good works unto him, must pay close attention to what God says through Isaiah. God says, ” Where is the house that ye build unto me? . . . For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word” (Isaiah 66:2). Consider your last week. Have you been poor in spirit? Have you worked knowing that you have absolutely nothing to offer apart from God’s daily active kindness toward you? Have you trembled at His Word?

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Something Greater Than the Temple Is Here

One sabbath, as the disciples walked in a field, they plucked grain to eat. The Pharisees didn’t like this. They charged the disciples with doing what was unlawful on the sabbath. Jesus’ response was to say, “Haven’t you read in the law how the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless” (Matthew 12:5)? After establishing this truth he said to the Pharisees, “But I say to you that something greater than the temple is here.” 

Now you might say, “Oh to be there with Christ on that day. What glory it would have been to walk in those fields with him, the greater temple, how wonderful it would be to eat that grain alongside him.” But I say to you, here you are, and something greater than the temple is here. Here you are and you will eat something greater than what the disciples ate that day.

Paul says “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:16)?

As you come to eat this bread and drink this cup, you will spiritually feed upon Christ crucified. As the priests in the temple would eat their portion of the sacrifice. So you as a royal priesthood today are assembled as the new covenant temple, and you will eat of the sacrifice. 

Imagine how giddy the disciples must have been as they tasted that grain on that sabbath day and heard Jesus vindicate their fellowship with him. And come now with that kind of gratitude and gladness, taste this bread on this sabbath day knowing that something greater than the temple is here. Come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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How to Avoid Developing a Complex

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Not all complexity is bad. Complex wines are enjoyable enough. Complex math problems produce some very helpful tools. But we are not to be consumed with the complex, or taken captive by it as if it were always a good thing. A man enamored with the complex will soon find that he has a complex. He does not enjoy untangling knots, but rather enjoys being tangled up in them.

Take the Gnostics from Irenaeus’ day. They had their supreme god who sat atop a divine hierarchy of other gods, one of these lesser gods goes rogue and out pops a semi-divine ignorant being who forms the material world as we know it, and then goes to calling himself the real and only god. You read of these Gnostics and say, “How did you come up with this heavenly heretical chess board in the first place? The fact is, false doctrine can only get that complex when the guys making it up really want to sin. “Hmmmm,” the say, “if I run the equation that way, then voila! I can sin.” The Gnostics were known for luring away married women from their husbands. Their hearts were all tangled up and their doctrine followed.

So what about you? You may find yourself in relational knots, mental knots, emotional knots, or financial knots. Whatever the knot is, the way out is simple faith and obedience. God untangles the knot. To him belongs the secret things—the diagram of all of the moves that need to be made. Our job is to execute, to do the next good work that God has set in front of us. You can’t solve this math problem in your head. But you can take the step God has prepared for you. Daily, straight-forward obedience. Not easy, but simple enough.

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His Broken Body, Yours

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Many Christians will say that Christ saves in the way that one man delivers another from a ditch by throwing down a rope. There is certainly some truth to the illustration. Hannah told us that our God raises the poor out of the dust (1 Samuel 2:8). But this image is not entirely sufficient. And I don’t merely mean that the image falls short on the sovereignty of God, as if what is needed is simply to add that Christ ties the rope around our lifeless bodies, and hauls us up by grace alone. That is true enough. But it still fails to capture an essential message of this table.

As the Heidelberg Catechism says, “[God] wishes to assure us by this visible sign that we come to share in his true body and blood through the working of the Holy Spirit as surely as we receive with our mouth these holy tokens.” Do we receive this bread? Does this wine enter us? In the same way, we actually participate in Christ’s true body and blood. Again the catechism says, “all his sufferings and his death are our own as certainly as if we had ourselves suffered and rendered satisfaction in our own persons.”

Is this bread yours? Well, yes it is. It is quite clearly yours. After you eat, there is no doubt it is yours. It is in you. And likewise, are Christ’s sufferings and death yours? Is the payment and satisfaction of Christ’s shed blood truly yours? Indeed. As much as this wine which you will drink is yours, so is the blood of Christ and all his benefits yours. His broken body: yours. His blood: yours. His death: yours. His justification: yours. So come in faith and welcome to Jesus Christ.

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Parental Horse Sense: Lesson 2 — A Living Liturgy

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For our second installment of parental horse sense, I’d like to talk about a living liturgy. Not a monotonous one. Not a dead one. Not one that everyone in the home hates. It will require energy, of course. And therein lies the rub. This home marked by a living liturgy banishes laziness so the lazy will be more than little uncomfortable with it. But a living liturgy mustn’t be like the first day at boot camp with Sargent steel-face scowling down at you. 

Fathers and mothers must follow the liturgical gladness of their Father in heaven which G. K. channels here in his typical Chestertonian fashion—

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

Now, we all know that this bar is set quite high. You’re already tired and you want to hasten to remind me that you are no child with “abounding vitality.” Ah, yes, but your Father is younger than you. And the same power that conquered the grave now resides in you. And I didn’t title this series of posts “7 quick and easy fixes to your parenting challenges” so I manifestly cannot be charged with click bait. That said, where do we begin to implement this liturgy that aims to be a light yoke like our Master’s?

Start with family worship. Do it when it works for you family. With several children in the house, I have found right after a meal to work well. The table is still full of plates and lasagna smears. Often the children are still eating. Baths are in our future and there’s only 45 minutes until heads in beds, so I’m killing two birds (the finish up what’s on your plate bird and the let’s sing a psalm together bird) with one stone. Nothing in the Bible against that. I dare say it has a ring of wisdom to it. 

Don’t be long-winded if you’re leading this family worship. Read a short passage of Scripture, sing a psalm or hymn (two if the kids and momma are enjoying themselves), ask a catechism question (and if you have one set to music this part goes much better), and pray. Often, we go around the table with each child praying a one or two sentence prayer of thanksgiving. We know how easy it is to get out of sorts after a long day. Nothing like being reminded that God has given us all sorts of undeserved gifts. The thanksgiving prayers are often blessed by God to increase thanksgiving—remember this is a living liturgy.

Add to your family worship times, a solid bed time routine. In general, make it a practice that the kids hit the hay at the same time every night. Read them a book. Pray for them. And bless them. Our children go to bed with father’s hand on their head and something like “The Lord bless you and keep you and make his face shine upon you” or “The Lord crush Satan under your feet” or “May your children possess the gates of their enemies.” 

Work an education and sports liturgy. It is your God-given duty to educate your children. This responsibility is yours and not the state’s. So we must not begrudge sitting down after dinner and helping with homework. Make it a comfy chair if that helps. Go all the way and make it a comfy recliner. But be there for the kids when they’re not sure what the next step is on that math problem. 

Sports is a world of training hard work, self-control (especially emotional self-control), teamwork, physical strength (and mental), and overall character. Sport takes time. Some families certainly make sports an idol. Don’t do that. But do step back and notice all that your children are getting if the athletics are done right. For one, they learn authority and how to respect coaches. They also learn how to lose and not chunk their Gatorade like a fitsy toddler. They learn how to crucify their pride when they are the best on the court. The list of lessons could go on. Don’t let the sports control your liturgy. You will need to be flexible with your family rhythm of course. But if you’re home liturgy is going haywire and looking like some hit and miss wild Methodist revival camp meetings with you as a traveling itinerant minister missing church for travel baseball tournaments, then just pull the plug and get back to the family fundamentals.

Sabbath well. God has given us one day in seven to keep holy to the Lord. That means call the sabbath a delight. Create a culture in the home where everyone is looking forward to Sunday. It is the day, let the earth rejoice(!), when no one may do laundry or school work. It is the day we appear before the Lord as a family to rejoice with the saints. 

As you establish and maintain a living liturgy in the home, make small tweaks as necessary, not large ones. If you know that things have gotten away from you in the home, don’t institute 17 laws of the Medes and the Persians right away. Don’t make the mistake of Rehoboam and go to talking about your thighs being as thick as your father’s finger and what not. Nobody wants it. You’re in the new covenant. The family has been set free. The family has be Pentecosted.

The Apostle Paul is very clear that fathers must bring up their children. But notice that is the nurture and admonition of the Lord, not of that schoolmaster that ruled the church in the wilderness. You are to raise up your children through this happy and vibrant liturgy without provoking them to wrath. 

The secret to the whole thing is that your soul be right before the Lord. If father and mother have the joy of the Lord, if they are trusting God for their children, then that gladness spills over. It is just down right hard to remain a grump when others in the family are having a wholesome and good time. Laughter feeds laughter. Self-control nurtures self-control. Gloom and laziness breed themselves as well. 

So make a plan, a liturgy of grace, rooted in the forgiveness of Christ’s cross, a plan that is full of good things that doesn’t ride anyone into the ground; then execute that plan by grace through faith looking for energy from the God who says to the sun every morning, “Do it again.”

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