Waiting for Him
We all wait. Sometimes we wait for others impatiently. Sometimes we wait for changes discontentedly. Sometimes we wait for ourselves …
Kenneth Wieting
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth W. Wieting is a retired pastor and author of The Blessings of Weekly Communion and Lutheranism 101 - The Lord's Supper, both available from Concordia Publishing House.
As You Proclaim Him
We need the protection Jesus provides in Holy Communion. After the Last Supper, Jesus warned Peter that Satan would sift him like wheat.
We Have the Time
The second most common objection to recovering weekly communion in the 1999 survey was that it takes too much time.
Weekly Communion Too Common?
In Easter season 1999, I surveyed all LCMS pastors regarding weekly communion. Their members largely feared …
Jesus’ Medicine
It is not fanatical for pastors and members to desire the weekly opportunity to commune.
Do You Always Need it?
This marvelous truth is foundational for Holy Communion: The living Christ, here and now, in the flesh, does this.
Are You Fanatical about the Lord’s Supper?
Weekly communion was not widely practiced for a significant part of the twentieth century in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS).