Pathlight Studies

We're going to take a look at the Communion, what it means to be a part of it, its significance, and its overall importance in the life of the believer. We will look at several instances throughout the New Testament where it is referenced, first at its institution, and then at the ways in which it was used, and misused, in the first-century church, and how we, as followers of Christ, are to use it today. We'll begin with the institution of the Communion, the very night in which Jesus was betrayed. We read in Matthew 26:26-28..." And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. "  Jesus told his disciples in John 6:35..." I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; a...

Have you ever felt as though you were under attack? Like you were at war with forces beyond your control?  Those of us who love God, and who would strive to keep His commandments, to do His will, who would try to live in a way which would be pleasing to Him, are under constant attack. Many times, the onslaught is straightforward, blatant, and even blasphemous, in its heinous barrage on our senses, on the very fiber of our faith and on its origins. We are bombarded on every turn with unabashed and shameless sin, paraded before us in an ever more flagrant nature, almost flaunted, in front of us. The values that we as Christians hold dear, and cling to, are being minimized, ridiculed, and pushed aside. Television, the internet, society in general, are almost mocking Christianity in the ways in which sin is portrayed as the norm, and accepted, and dare not be spoken out against for fear of "offending someone" or "appearing to be intolerant". But more often than not, ...