Welcome to Edible Words! This site aims to enable expository preachers to teach and apply the whole Word of God to Baptism and the Lord's Supper within their congregations.

The bible is full of patterns and principles of God's dealings with his people through covenant rituals. Good biblical exposition should, therefore, define our participation in Baptism and the Lord's Supper. These biblical meditations and exhortations are not like sermons where application is always in the context of a local congregation. The application of biblical truths with respect to the sacraments and proclaimed in the context of the gathered congregation is universal and so can be shared.

As time-poor preachers we can, therefore, work together to produce a catalogue of meditations to be used, either as stand alone exhortations or which can be incorporated into the sermon, as a preface to communion or a baptism. By sharing this work on Edible Words, a living, peer-reviewed resource will grow and develop.

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Here is the start of one of the meditations on this site to get you started...

 

Passover: Exodus 12-13

Sat, 2006-12-16 17:28 — James Oakley

Those of you who have had children, or who know children, will know that they go through various stages in their early years. There's learning to crawl. Then learning to walk. Learning to talk comes some time around then, although that doesn't happen all at once. First, there are noises that vaguely resemble certain words we use every day, but you can't be sure if you've heard correctly. Then there are single words: mummy, daddy, pudding, bath. Then those words get strung together in twos and threes: more pudding. Then you get short sentences. And at some point, most children go through the stage of asking: "Why?" To everything. And the chances are that your answers will be replied to with another why, and another one, until you get pushed back so far you just don't know the answers any more.