A Famine Not of Bread

Click here to listen to this sermon. Click here to listen to this sermon. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! “ Whoever desires to be saved must, above all, hold the catholic faith… This is the catholic faith; whoever does not believe it faithfully and firmly cannot be saved. A creed (from the Latin credo , “I believe”) is a confession of faith used by individual Christians, congregations, and churches to express what is believed, taught, and confessed about God and, consequently, what is not believed, taught, and confessed about God. Creeds and conflict are not just intertwined; they are inseparable. When disputes over doctrine emerge, creeds are a beacon of clarity, guiding us through the diverse interpretations of God's nature. Some perceive God in one way, others in another. Some view Jesus as a righteous man, others as God incarnate, and a few as a deity with a lowercase' g'. Some argue it is inconsequential, while others assert ...

Click here to listen to this sermon. “And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And He said this plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. But turning and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, ‘Get behind Me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man’” (Mark 9:31-33). Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! I’m sure most of you have heard the saying, “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.” It means that it is often better to deal with someone or something you are familiar with and know, even if they are not ideal, than to take a risk with an unknown person or thing. But the problem with such an approach is that the devil you know is still a devil, and no devil has your good in mind. Certainly, no devil should be taken ...