Sermon Preached By: Dr. Wesley Avram Scripture: Luke 5:1–11 Now I know that each one of you is an expert at something. You’ve got skills that others don’t have, and you can smell out an amateur when you see one. Maybe you can bake a soufflé. Maybe it’s brain surgery or building a shopping mall. Maybe it’s getting the sale, or getting an eight–year–old to go to bed on time. Maybe it’s high finance, or getting the church budget right. You name the thing. For Peter, James, and John, it was...

Sermon Preached By: Dr. Wesley Avram Scripture: Leviticus 25:1–7 ; Mark 6: 30–46 Robert Farrer Capon is a theologian and a cook. Alongside books on the New Testament and theology, he’s also written a couple of cookbooks, with musings on how God and entertaining intersect. One of those cookbooks is called The Party Spirit. In that book, Capon makes a recommendation that helps us understand the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 – though he makes no mention of the story at all. What he says is this: If you are throwing a party...