The Feast in the Garden

In this opening message of The Feast series, Pastor Caleb invites the church to see eating not as a mundane activity but as a theological act—a daily ritual of dependence that reminds us we are sustained by God’s generous provision. 

Tracing the theme of feasting from Genesis to Jesus, he shows how our origin story begins not in scarcity but in a garden banquet prepared by a hospitable King who commands humanity to “eat” and enjoy his abundance. 

Sin, however, introduces the anxiety of scarcity—the fear that God will not provide—which leads us to grasp, hoard, and exclude. Yet the story does not end there. Throughout Scripture, God calls us back to the table, ultimately providing not only food but himself. In Jesus, the Bread of Life, God answers our deepest fear with radical generosity, inviting us again to trust, to share, and to live as people shaped by abundance rather than anxiety.