A Famine Not of Bread

Click here to listen to this sermon. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Dr. John Kleinig begins his book, “Wonderfully Made,” by observing: The slogans on two sweatshirts worn by young women recently caught my attention. The first was ‘My body! My choice!’ The second was, ‘Your body may be a temple, but mine’s an amusement park.’ Both sum up how people now regard their bodies. Since it belongs to them and only to them, they may do as they please with it. Therefore, they use it for their own amusement in pursuit of physical pleasure or themselves apart from God and any higher purpose in life. [i]   From conception to birth, life, death, and resurrection, your bodies are of utmost importance. Through each stage, your bodies matter, as does how you live in them, what you do with them, and how you approach life and death. Today, with our text from 2 Corinthians 5:1-7, we’ll focus on the latter stages—life after death and the resurrection of the bod...

Click here to listen to this sermon. “For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (2 Corinthians 5:1). Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! My wife does not do camping in a tent. She has made that perfectly clear: “Why spend the night on a leaky air mattress in a hot, humid tent when I have a perfectly fine bed in an air-conditioned house?”   To be honest, I can understand where she is coming from. It’s based upon previous experience. One year we went camping for the weekend near Yankton, SD. We borrowed a tent from some friends. The first night it rained 1 ½ inches. The floor of the tent sloshed up and down like a waterbed without baffles. The water found every pinhole in the bottom of the tent, each of which seemed to be strategically placed so as to soak every sleeping bag. The next night it rained over 2 inches in just a little ov...