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 ...

"The Pilgrims of Emmaus" by Henry Ossawa Tanner Click here to listen to this sermon. “When He was at table with them, He took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened, and they recognized [Jesus]. And He vanished from their sight” (Luke 24:30–31). Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Have you ever frantically looked around for something and not been able to find it? Maybe your car keys, or the TV remote, the book you were just reading, or some other object. You search and search again. Then, after you’ve given up all hope of ever seeing it again, you come across it in the exact place where you’ve been looking. It was there all the time, but for one reason or another, you just didn’t notice it. Somehow it was just hidden in plain sight. The disciples on the road to Emmaus, had a similar experience that first Easter. Like the disciples back in the city, these two were struggling to make sens...