A Famine Not of Bread

"Building the Tower of Babel" by James Tissot Click here to listen to this sermon. "Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.’ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So, the Lord dis...

Click here to listen to this sermon. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ ! What a day!   The Day of Pentecost.   The day of the baptism of Andersen Theodore Bucher.   The confirmation of his dad, Derek.   And the reception of Andersen’s family into the body of Christ here at St. John’s.   And it’s very fitting, for like all baptisms, Andersen’s is a mini-Pentecost—a Holy Spirit-filled event.   He received God’s Spirit, not in the rushing wind or in tongues of fire, but in the water and Word.   My grandson is now my brother in the Lord—yours too!   Derek, Marissa, and Abbott are also now part of this congregation, numbered with you, and all Christians throughout the ages and across the world.      This is a day for which I have prayed for some time now.   I prayed for Derek before he even began to date Marissa—not specifically by name, of course, but that God would provide a godly husb...