What is your most vivid food memory? What is the taste or aroma that you experience and it’s like “ah, that takes me back…”

Food has an amazing ability to transport us across lands and through time, evoking memories that take us back to a particular place; a holiday; specific meal; a moment in time. The moment we taste it, it can feel so vivid, it’s almost as if we were there.

On Sunday I spoke on communion at Oxford Community Church, and I argued that this meal more than any other has the remarkable ability to engage our imaginations and our spirits in a way that transports us through time, and places us into a story that brings meaning to everything and changes our lives.

In this sermon we looked at the Last Supper in Luke 22, considering how Jesus’ death brings about the New Exodus.

If you want to give it a watch/listen you can do so here. The talk starts at about (1:04:30) on the video.

Enjoy!

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