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november 2, 2026

Faith Changes Everything

Everything good is bad without faith. The righteous shall live by faith, and we eat and drink at the Lord's Table by faith.

october 19, 2026

Misthology

We come to the Table believing not only that God is, but that He rewards those who seek Him.

earlier posts

2026

  1. Public Execution
  2. Flock Cameras Don't Even Know
  3. Better Than One Day
  4. Subject to the Father
  5. More Has Been Watered Down
  6. Unabashed about His Brothers
  7. You Have Been Served
  8. A New Reproach
  9. The Joy of the Fisherman
  10. The Defining Feature
  11. The Not-Deserving
  12. A Great Fool
  13. No Other Gods Have Eternal Life
  14. The Devil's Loss
  15. Complete or Not?
  16. The Supper Doesn't Starve Faith
  17. Beloved in the Beloved
  18. Not Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth
  19. When Does It Matter?
  20. Jesus Knew Where He Belonged
  21. Gratitude Is a Vibe
  22. Our Savior
  23. Called to Communion
  24. Communicable Giving
  25. Re-birth Mark
  26. Everything Is Changed
  27. A Mind to Condescend
  28. Better Rejoicing Resources
  29. Mercy Is Not Like Property Taxes
  30. The Spirit Makes It Make Sense
  31. Biblical Impossibles
  32. A Defining Sense of Self
  33. A Turned People
  34. Not Even If We Had Eternity
  35. For the Found
  36. Too Cool for Church?
  37. Good for the Group
  38. Trinitarian Communion

2025

  1. The Grace Is Real
  2. Behold, the Days Are Coming
  3. A King Who Conquered Death
  4. Sons of Blessing
  5. Vessels of Blessing
  6. Against Sour Stew
  7. Further Along?
  8. Scheduled Joy
  9. Some Divisions Aren't Dumb
  10. Light Is Right
  11. We Are All Hamans
  12. How Can We Lose?
  13. Shovels to the Enemy
  14. Consecrated Communion
  15. The Turning Point of That First Resurrection Sunday
  16. A Better Calling
  17. The Path to Greatness
  18. A Turn of Events
  19. Bread-sharers
  20. Love and Steadfastness
  21. Re-forming Every Sunday
  22. God's Man, God's Assembly
  23. All Favorites
  24. Communion Let Loose
  25. Identity Doubts
  26. Faith That Is Fed
  27. Love Is on the Board
  28. No Time Like the Present
  29. Remembrance of Anticipation
  30. He Endured for Joy for Our Enduring Joy
  31. Amen, Amen!
  32. The Hour of Glory
  33. Not Unimunion
  34. We Don't Get Wet Again
  35. First of Many
  36. Seven Days
  37. Same Team, No Taunts
  38. What Even Is Community?
  39. Radical Fruit
  40. A Community of the Consecrated
  41. Good Hope
  42. Hole-and-Corner Reformers
  43. Because It's Awesome
  44. A Mega Tone
  45. Over Our Heads
  46. Witnessing to an Invisible Audience
  47. Our Week Doesn't Start on Friday
  48. They Thought It Was

2024

  1. The Order of the Meal
  2. Self-Improvement
  3. Pre- and Post-Gratitude
  4. A Preposterous Descent
  5. The Greatest Gift
  6. Good in More Places Than the Dictionary
  7. Again and Again
  8. Not a Title Game
  9. Not to Tear Down
  10. The Great Peace Offering
  11. The Eternal List
  12. A Good Inventory
  13. You Will Be Joy-kay
  14. Hungry Blessings
  15. Different Not Divided
  16. A Faithful Word
  17. He Died for Our Once
  18. Against Indifferent Lollygagging
  19. Self-control and the Lord's Supper
  20. Remember Love
  21. A Great Exchange
  22. Unburdened Reverence
  23. A Table for Our Health
  24. Thankful Opposites
  25. Obtained by Blood
  26. Communion in the Present Age
  27. Godly Communion
  28. Taking Joy
  29. Remember Mercy
  30. Not a Table of Taunts
  31. Don't Shrink Back
  32. Every Believing Babylonian
  33. Like a Herd of Gerasene Swine
  34. What's More Impossible
  35. Much More
  36. Resurrection Resurrection
  37. Outfitted by Blood
  38. Recommendation Letters
  39. The Good Old News
  40. Blessings with Taste
  41. Mission Communion
  42. What Is Like Our Communion?
  43. Communion-telic
  44. Baptized for Communion
  45. Preach What You Practice
  46. Forgiven and Favored

2023

  1. A Dominion of Gift
  2. The Climactic Crescendo
  3. The Early Stages
  4. Waiting Generationally
  5. Hating the Results
  6. A Communion of Seers
  7. Making Us a Choir
  8. What Peace Can Be Expected?
  9. The Greatest World Dangers
  10. Assurance to All
  11. Any but Not All
  12. A Table of Tension
  13. Jesus and Us
  14. The Essential Cup of Blessing
  15. Louder Than the Law
  16. Doomcommuning
  17. Ordained to Overcome
  18. Not Laissez Faire Fare
  19. No Lazy Zeal
  20. Sharing in the From-Through-To-Him One
  21. No Measure to His Endowments
  22. Pleasing at Present
  23. Quite an Earful
  24. How Our God Is Not
  25. No Holy Hierarchy by Office
  26. Speckled, Spotted, and Strong
  27. Supper Specifics
  28. Reconciled to Life
  29. All the Offerings
  30. Credit to the Teaching
  31. Four Unworthy Ways at the Lord's Supper
  32. Hands Out
  33. The Lamp of the Lamb
  34. Suffering Week
  35. Lordship Style
  36. A Table Call
  37. The Bread Is Live
  38. For All Their Problems
  39. When You Don't Have a Name
  40. Never Put to Shame
  41. Communion Delight
  42. Not New and Improved
  43. Archetypal Deliverance
  44. A Cupboard Full of Vessels
  45. An Invitation Scandal
  46. He Is Ours
  47. Love Practice

2022

  1. Born to Reign
  2. Second Advent Caring
  3. Anticipation Proper
  4. He Didn't Wait
  5. Familiar Trees
  6. Blessed Eyes
  7. On Not Acting Like the Dead
  8. Communionicating
  9. Beware the Phishing of Philosophers
  10. A Dud to Some
  11. Seeking Death
  12. The Right Order
  13. Communion Renewal
  14. Glad That We're Back
  15. Feasting for Strength
  16. Part of Our Protection
  17. The Lord as Host
  18. In His Crosshairs
  19. Renewing amidst Ruining
  20. Nothing Can Stop Him
  21. Life Laid Down
  22. Glory Is Central
  23. One Degree of Sacrifice to Another
  24. Cross Views
  25. Behind the Wall
  26. At His Disposal
  27. Liturgical Scandals
  28. In Uno Multis
  29. Adam's Example
  30. Born This Way
  31. When It Gets Bad
  32. Together in Affection
  33. Out of Bounds
  34. A Forefeast
  35. Triumphal Prophecy
  36. We Must Be Hatched
  37. What is a Christian?
  38. Before We Mess It Up
  39. The Lord of the Table Is One
  40. On Not Fasting from Joy
  41. All My "Russian" Friends
  42. One Little Feast Shall Fell Him
  43. Something Is Odd
  44. Six Presets for Only Two Stations
  45. Distributed Glory
  46. We Are Regulars Here
  47. Our Cup Overflows
  48. Weekly Fellowship

2021

  1. Falling or Rising
  2. Manger Ministries
  3. Following the First
  4. A Contumelious Wall
  5. Communion with Immanuel
  6. Fragrant Feasts
  7. The Cornerstone of Identity
  8. The King's Kindness
  9. Against Indulgences
  10. Blessed Forever
  11. Can't Help It
  12. Without Needing to Google It
  13. Long Hugs and Pirate-Sounding-Song-Singing
  14. Without Remaining Charge
  15. A Gospel Salvo
  16. A Blanket of Porcupine Quills
  17. Something to Miss
  18. What a Friend
  19. More But Not Less Than Mental
  20. Familiarity Breeds
  21. Eat Local
  22. The Owner of the Vineyard
  23. The Taste of a Father
  24. Temple Terminology
  25. A Mathematical Baby Step
  26. Better Than a Thousand Elsewhere
  27. Don't Make Them Pay
  28. It Found Out Me
  29. Fattened Up
  30. Not Safe But Sane
  31. The Beginning and the End
  32. Our Marveling Mechanisms
  33. The Price of Passion
  34. The Beautifying Stage
  35. His Doom Is Sure
  36. Word Then Wine
  37. A Weepless Future
  38. Flaking Out
  39. The Binding Agent
  40. Like a Threadbare Sweater
  41. The Boast of a Fool
  42. More Than Pejoratives

2020

  1. The Great Conjunction of Death and Joy
  2. Downplaying Salvation
  3. Heavenly Food
  4. 40 Miles Uphill
  5. A Feast of Promise
  6. Liars and Outliers
  7. No Good Without His Coming
  8. The Score Is Settled
  9. The Table of His Testimony
  10. Soap, Water, and Anxiousness
  11. Service Options
  12. Deaden or Gladden
  13. Always Baking, Never Buttering
  14. No Comparison
  15. Out of Enmity
  16. A Big As
  17. The Biggest Poser
  18. An Hebdomadal Schedule
  19. Most Apoplectic
  20. Premarital Beautification
  21. Not Losing Our Head
  22. Communion Criticisms
  23. To the Foot of the Cross
  24. Look Around
  25. The Sum
  26. We're Not Alone
  27. What He's Prepared
  28. In the Presence of Our Enemies
  29. He Is Still the Answer
  30. Masks Are Winning
  31. Who Rides Shotgun
  32. How Many Doors
  33. Yet He Doth Sing
  34. Coronapocrisy and a Communion of Conquerors
  35. Seriously Bad
  36. That Is Our Habit
  37. Distance Communion
  38. Relational, Not Just Liturgical
  39. Getting Away from His Face
  40. Not Just Generalizations
  41. Not Easily Peaced
  42. The End of Rage
  43. Hellish Hearts
  44. Celebrated Here but Not Created Here
  45. Lauded by Angels
  46. Fresh Reasons
  47. Liturgy to Lifestyle

2019

  1. Joining the Angels
  2. Christmas Communion
  3. The Spirit of Christmas
  4. A Flesh and Blood Brother
  5. A Father's Christmas
  6. The Point Where We Can Really Get Going
  7. Resurrection and Return
  8. As Good as It's Ever Been
  9. He Knows Your Name
  10. Gospel Odor
  11. Saliva and Plastic as Gifts
  12. Counting Waves
  13. Not the Sanctimonious Sisterhood of Bossy Pants
  14. Keeping the Adjective
  15. No Greater Harbor
  16. False Comforts and Fear of Comforts
  17. Worthy Is the Lamb
  18. Making Eye Contact with the Judge
  19. Praise Among the Nations
  20. Cutting the Cords
  21. The Idea Was More Than Ideas
  22. Thanks in Advance
  23. The Lord Builds
  24. Never the Same Person Twice
  25. Now We Belong
  26. Proclaiming the Lord’s Love Until He Comes
  27. Not a Crumb of a Cardboard Cracker
  28. What a Perishable Seed Can Do
  29. Taunts of the Assembly
  30. So Hard Its Undoing
  31. After the Fact
  32. Foolproof Resurrection
  33. All the Prepositions
  34. We Are Not Pretending
  35. The Witness Proclamation Program
  36. Desire for Communion as Disciples
  37. Comfort from the Dead-raiser
  38. When Receivers Are Received
  39. Good Things from Three Persons
  40. What Other Table?
  41. No Lesser Bread
  42. Open Communion, Closed Membership
  43. All a Pitter-pattering
  44. Communion That Smells
  45. Gaining Weight

2018

  1. O Come Again, Emmanuel
  2. Born with Flesh
  3. Intermittent Feasting
  4. Finished with Discipline
  5. A Spoonful of Flour
  6. Thankful for the Body
  7. Royal Blood
  8. Comparatively Uppity
  9. The Supper Is a Sermon
  10. More Melody Than Misery
  11. The Nature of Bread and Wine
  12. Likeness Sharers
  13. Everything Intended
  14. Substantive Sharing
  15. Lyrics and Harmony
  16. How Grain Gets Memorialized
  17. The Mask Is Off
  18. We Were Tohu va Bohu
  19. What Good Is That
  20. By Faith We Do Stuff
  21. The Most Honorable Lineage
  22. Stomping Out the Rock Juice
  23. A Feast of Self-Control
  24. It’s the Law
  25. Dead at the Cross
  26. The Father’s Generosity
  27. Not by Self-Promotion
  28. The Government of Stability
  29. Where He Starts
  30. The Disconnect of Discontent
  31. Affections in Maternal Tones
  32. So Not Okay
  33. Bitter Would Be a Start
  34. The Valley of the Shadow of Freaking Out
  35. Look for a Second
  36. Drinking the Purchase Price
  37. Limbs and Organs
  38. A Table of Reckoning
  39. Has Beens
  40. Take Him to Dinner
  41. Discipline of a Different Style
  42. We Eat What We Are
  43. Fixed in Mind
  44. Body and Soul
  45. Making a Mess
  46. Hanging up a New Calendar

2017

  1. Still Bringing People Together
  2. The Gluten of Your Family
  3. The Goat that Went Away
  4. To Judge or Not To Judge
  5. The Lesser of All Things
  6. Without the Stickers
  7. We Love His Handouts
  8. Meat to Live Out
  9. A Spirit of Fermentation
  10. Contradicting the Celebrating
  11. Davids and Daniels
  12. Who Wants the Cross?
  13. Not Just Speech Patterns
  14. Remembering How We Are Supposed to Die
  15. First, We Eat
  16. The Place of the Sulk
  17. Differences Are Assumed
  18. A Long Session in the Same Direction
  19. Even More Personal
  20. Brains and Bread
  21. Life in the Body
  22. Get You Out of Bed Truths
  23. No More Intended Evil
  24. The Patriarch’s Prophetic Blessing
  25. Locating Trust
  26. Stamped with New Value
  27. Easter Had to Be Effective
  28. Accounting for Participation
  29. Totus Pravus
  30. All Sorts of Quests
  31. Greatness Under Cover
  32. Not in Me
  33. Exsultamus!
  34. Familiarity Breeds
  35. The Cup in Our Hands
  36. In Remembrance of Where Christ Is
  37. More Suitable for Church People
  38. A Way of Life
  39. Won to His Side
  40. A Principal Ornament
  41. Outright Dependence

2016

  1. What was He doing here?
  2. The Suburbs of Fellowship
  3. Then He Was Washed
  4. Like Esau?
  5. Made Limp in order to Lean
  6. Thanks Not Required (at least in the way we might think)
  7. No Other Bride for Christ
  8. 288 Ways to Judgment
  9. The Problems with Blessings
  10. Big Brother
  11. A Tomb in Canaan
  12. The Top of the Faith Chart
  13. Strong "Ewww" Reflexes
  14. Breaking the Divide
  15. Communion Against Abortion
  16. Chosen Symbols
  17. Not in Remembrance of You
  18. Overactive Victimhood

2015

  1. Delighting in the Saints
  2. Savior of the Nations
  3. The Blood of a New Humanity
  4. Getting Accustomed Again
  5. Enthroned over the Cross
  6. Our Supernatural Squeamishness
  7. A Certain Way
  8. New Soil
  9. It's Happening
  10. Complex Carbohydrates
  11. Two Kinds of Worldlings
  12. Blood Speaks
  13. Offerings That Please God
  14. Sharing in the Symbols
  15. That Sickening Feeling
  16. More Than One Vessel
  17. A Spoiled Supper
  18. Bricks on the Wall
  19. Not the Final Meeting
  20. He Has Us Covered
  21. His Shots Will Backfire
  22. Premeditated Forgiveness
  23. The Fountainhead of Antithesis
  24. Ad Nauseum Wholus Foodus
  25. Before or After?
  26. An Interrogative Shovel
  27. Two Adams
  28. The Day of Resting Revelry
  29. All That He's Provided
  30. More Than Thinking
  31. Image Conscious
  32. A Resurrection Relationship
  33. Not Even the Days Are Figurative
  34. Bread Has Never Sinned
  35. As Reliable as the Sunrise
  36. Let There Be Light
  37. Less Mary Poppins Snapping
  38. Be Cheered!
  39. The Nature of Things

2014

  1. What's Your Problem?
  2. Christmas Counters
  3. We Get Closer
  4. Reached the Quota
  5. Things That Stand Out
  6. Forsaken by God
  7. Most Saturday Nights
  8. Everything in Subjection
  9. The Son and the Psalter
  10. A Zero Ego Party
  11. Making Himself Known
  12. Many Offspring from One Offering
  13. Table Rules
  14. Training and Tasting
  15. This Table Is Reserved
  16. One Table, Two Bodies
  17. The Tone of His Table
  18. Blood That Speaks
  19. We Win in Him

2013

  1. Sympathy and Division
  2. Merry Communion!
  3. A Holiday Challenge
  4. No Pilgrimages to Holy Places
  5. When You're Jealous
  6. For the Last Time
  7. Chasing with A Bigger Rake
  8. All God's Fullness
  9. A Long Thank You Note
  10. Fruit by Derivative
  11. Cooked and Consumed
  12. As If It Is Real
  13. It Can't Be Privatized
  14. A Successful Catastrophe
  15. Glossing the Skids
  16. We Can't Be Silent
  17. Called to a Common Commandment
  18. They Didn't Know
  19. Pair-a-Bowla
  20. A Good Washing
  21. Make It Look Good
  22. Getting up from the Table
  23. The Lard from a Nickel
  24. The Omniscient Forgiver
  25. One Makes the Other
  26. Finishing What He Finished
  27. We Can Die It
  28. The Food We Serve
  29. Honoring the Son of Man
  30. Say Who He Is

2012

  1. Into This World
  2. Stuck in the Driveway
  3. Minor Chord Carols
  4. The Nature of Sacrifice
  5. Our Own Orphan Sunday
  6. The Larger Conflict Arc
  7. Right Behind Isolation
  8. An Accountability Table
  9. His Kids' Table
  10. A Real Mess
  11. A Glorious Certainty
  12. A Great Misunderstanding
  13. More Careful Next Time
  14. No Inside Man
  15. A Spiritual Advantage
  16. That Movie Script We Wrote
  17. The Field of Ego
  18. Not in Their Right Mind
  19. Chosen for Humility
  20. Giving a Rip
  21. Copy and Paste Communion
  22. A Meal of Triumph
  23. Glorious Day
  24. Initiated without Our Interest
  25. The Same God
  26. If Only
  27. Punching Entitlement in the Face
  28. A Meal to Soften Hearts
  29. Communion and Provision
  30. Boasters Welcome
  31. The Path of Life
  32. Not the One They Wanted
  33. The Author of Life
  34. We Shouldn't Be Careless
  35. Display Purposes Only
  36. What It's Good For
  37. Dust Sure Does Have Problems
  38. Better Than a Thousand Elsewhere
  39. On Our Side
  40. Too Close for Some
  41. In a Dining Hall
  42. More Like a Segregation
  43. The Meat of the Meal
  44. Too Much Life

2011

  1. Seasonal Sound Bites
  2. Word and Sacrament
  3. Two Days with Jesus
  4. A Gluten Free Option
  5. Our Particular Sins
  6. 53 Times a Year
  7. Emblems of Both
  8. Toppling by Table
  9. Upsetting Continents
  10. Our Life Meal
  11. Sharing More Than Sentences
  12. Welcome to Watch
  13. Real Love
  14. Our Neighbor's Eating
  15. Using Bad Words
  16. Failing to Breathe
  17. Talking with Our Mouths Full
  18. The Right Banquet Hall
  19. Not an After-Creation Thought
  20. A Faith Increasing Ordinance
  21. Soul-sucking Mastery
  22. Right on Track
  23. A Trinitarian Table
  24. Down the Hill of Grace
  25. A Weekly Refrain
  26. The Other Gutter
  27. No Small Substitute
  28. Better Than a Dead One
  29. The Party Ditch
  30. The Gloomy Ordinance

2010

  1. Sharing What We Got
  2. Communion with God