Jeff Meyers

Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lenten Season) is February 13. The season of Lent lasts for 40 days (not including Sundays). It ends on East...

In his Introduction to Christian Liturgy Senn has a quick, but fascinating summary of the development of lectionary readings: No complet...

I offer some biblical and theological thoughts on the question of what kind of bread to use in the Lord's Supper.  This is not a polishe...

Calvin: "I call it a private mass whenever there is no communion among believers in the Lord's Supper, even if a large crowd of peo...

That we do in truth enter into God’s special presence in the midst of his gathered congregation must never be slighted or forgotten. The re...

Every year I repost these essays because every year I keep hearing the same old tired anti-Christmas rhetoric from a vocal minority of well-...

Today is the first Sunday in Advent.  Not everyone understands what to think about and do during Advent.  There are still plenty of Presbyte...

Amazing video! Closer to the Start - New Creation from Fellowship Church on Vimeo . When I get back from sabbatical we're gonna start ...

How many times to I have to say this? Who's listening? Anyone? Don't preach another sermon at the Table before Communion. We...

Only men are called to be Pastors. Pastors are called to lead the worship service. Women should have no liturgical leadership role in Chr...

Don't use flat crackers or hard tasteless little cubes or styrofoam-like, melt-in-your-mouth wafers for communion. Use bread—a normal, ...

This is the first installment of a little series I'd like to do for the next three months or so. I didn't write the book on liturgy...

Yeah. The election season ought to be part of the new four-year church calendar. Yep. No doubt. Tomorrow I fall off the face of the earth...

This is pretty cool. Eduardo Chagas, a choirmaster at a Brazilian Presbyterian Church, has translated my old essay Why Presbyterians Don...

In my presentation at the GA Colloquium on the Sacraments I argued for a more joyful, communal experience at the Lord's Table. Will Ba...

I finished my presentation on sacramental efficacy for the General Assembly Colloquium this year. I need to get it to the convener tomorro...

This is the conclusion to my discussion of John 2:24 and the regulative principle of worship. Jesus’ words—“worship in Spirit and truth”—mu...

This post is actually the next installment for my series on the "regulative principle of worship." But since it's all about J...

Marcionite RPW? The third problem with some formulations of the regulative principle is when it is applied in a dispensational, semi-Marcion...

Not Commanded – Not Allowed? The second problem with some ways of explaining the regulative principle of worship concerns a too narrowly def...