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“When Love is a Challenge”

Rev. William G. Lamont, Pastor

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"On Placing Trust"

Rev. William G. Lamont, pastor

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"Have You Anything Here to Eat?”

by Chuck Webb, Seminary Intern

“While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’  They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost.  He said to them, ‘Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?  Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself.  Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.’  And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.  While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, ‘Have you anything to eat?’  They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.

“Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’  Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem  You are witnesses of these things.’”  Luke 24:36-48  

Prayer for Illumination

Jesus came and stood among the disciples. They thought it was a ghost. He asks them, “Have you anything here to eat?” Let us pray. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, our rock and our Redeemer!  Amen.

Fred Craddock tells the story of a conference on hunger.  Many knowledgeable speakers from around the country spoke on the topic.  Near the end of the conference a young, willowy woman got up to speak.  Her long straight hair fell down her back, almost to her waist.  She carried a legal pad to the podium and began reading.

At first, Craddock says, he couldn’t follow what she was saying.  Eventually it dawned on him, as it did on other listeners.  She was reading the same sentence over and over, each time in a different language.  Finally at the very end she spoke the sentence in English.  All the time she was saying, “Mommy, I’m hungry.  Mommy, I’m hungry.”

She was the most powerful speaker of the entire conference, Craddock says.  At least she had the most impact upon him. 

As he and his group drove back to Atlanta, alongside the highway he read a billboard he had seen numerous times.  Before, he had hardly noticed it.  This time he did.  It said, “All You Can Eat Buffet, $4.99.”  This time, Craddock says, that message seemed to him to be obscene.

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"Scars"

Rev. William G. Lamont, Pastor

He showed them his hands and his side.  Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.  Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you... if you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven then; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”  John 20: 20b-23

I’ve gathered quite an inventory of scars on my person, and like most guys I got the bulk of them in my childhood years.  When I was a baby my big sister was rocking me in the carriage – she bumped the stove with the carriage and sloshed some boiling water out of the kettle onto my right foot.  I still have the scar from that...and have told her that a lawsuit is pending.  When I was ten I fell on a broken soda bottle and it sliced open my leg.  They took me to the hospital and the doctor gave me about six stitches and a tetanus shot.  When I was eleven I tried to cut my right index finger off with a handsaw and still have the scar from that accident.  Then, when I was 19, I nearly lost that same finger in an accident at work...dropped a 75 lb fitting on it.  I never got any stitches for that one; but I should have, because it took ages to heal.