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The Lord’s Supper refuses the rolling pin. It cannot be flattened into something of our own making. In the Lord’s Supper, the Triune God breaks out of the boxes we construct in vain to domesticate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is the message of Gordon Smith’s A Holy Meal. He writes with the conviction that the holy meal instituted by Jesus continues to challenge our assumptions about the...

Christ’s death and resurrection. We fail to live in the light of this ancient event. So easily through neglect the cross and the resurrection no longer penetrate our present, enabling us to live in the light of the gospel. We can understand why this can happen. Our lives are inundated with details, problems, challenges, temptations, and distractions. And when all is well, we are easily distracted by our comfort and ease! When we are bored, we are easily overcome by our own boredom. And so we must
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