The Feasts Of The Kingdom
Sermons On Holy Communion And Other Sacred Meals
Compared to the Palestine of Jesus' day, America is a veritable paradise of physical comfort and a bountiful land overflowing with milk and honey. If a first century Galilean peasant farmer could see the amber fields of waving grain on America's Great Plains, he surely would think he had died and gone to heaven, or that the Messianic Age had arrived in all its glory and splendour. Or if he could watch the huge freighters at Duluth, Minnesota, being loaded with ton after ton of golden grain, he would rightly think he would never again have to worry about his daily bread.