Feast: Savor and Share
A Feast of Refreshment
January 28, 2024 • Joe Parker • 1 Kings 19:1–8
Elijah was considered the greatest of all the prophets. But despite all his victories, he still runs in fear into the wilderness to escape death, falling into a state of depression, and asking the LORD to take his life. Instead, God sent an angel to comfort and provide for him. This experience taught Elijah that God does not always show up in powerful events. Sometimes, it's in the small whispers.
A Feast of Releasing
January 21, 2024 • Walter Henegar • Deuteronomy 14:22–29
The Old Testament law of tithing does not carry over neatly into tithing our income today—but it does illustrate that the heart of God is to include us in his generous feast of grace. The more we grasp his heart, the more we give away with more freedom and more joy. God's priorities for our giving start with ministries that support the worship of God's people, especially local churches, and also the poor and marginalized.
A Feast of Every Word
January 14, 2024 • Walter Henegar • Deuteronomy 8
To live ”not by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord” includes obeying God’s moral laws, but it never stops there. It also means trusting his commitment to bless us abundantly with literal food and every other material thing we need. Scripture is a feast that orients us to all of life: Who God is, who we are, why we are here, and where it’s all going. Above all, it means trusting in The Word, Jesus, whose life, death and resurrection is the interpretive key to understanding every other word from God. When the fulness of God’s Word “dwells richly in us” (Colossians 3:16), we lack no good thing.
A Feast of Reckoning
January 7, 2024 • Walter Henegar • Genesis 43:16–34
Joseph's dramatic meal with his brothers illustrates the complex currents flowing around all of our tables. In different relationships, we find ourselves in the Guarded role like Joseph, the Guilty role like his older brothers, or the Graced role like Benjamin. Only the sovereign hand of God can steer these stories toward redemption, and that's exactly what God does. Jesus is the true and better Joseph, the Bible's only hero, whose death on the cross makes us graced, and whose Holy Spirit makes us agents of grace to others.