A Famine Not of Bread

Click here to listen to this sermon. “We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to Him by the Majestic Glory, ‘This is My beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased,’ we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with Him on the holy mountain. And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts” (2 Peter 1:16-19). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! God has a history of revealing Himself on mountains. Moses came face-to-face with God and heard Him speak from a burning bush on Mount Horeb. The fire indicated the presence of God. God’s presence was confirmed in the Word that God spoke from the ...

Click here to listen to an audio version of this sermon.   "The Morning of the Resurrection" by Edward Burnes-Jones The text for today, The Resurrection of Our Lord, is our Gospel, Luke 24:1-12, which has already been read. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is risen!   He is risen indeed!   Alleluia! There’s something that I noticed about our text this year that I hadn’t thought about before.   That happens to pastors once in a while.   I’m sure it happens to you, too.   Something new jumps out of God’s Word at you that you’ve never seen before.   Well, for me, on this text, it was one question: Where are the men?   I mean the disciples… the Twelve… the ones who followed Jesus and were taught by Him for those three years?   Why are they hiding in the locked room?   I know, hindsight is 20/20, but should all of this really have caught them by surprise? St. Luke tells us of a lea...