We interrupt this vacation to bring you the sermon I preached at last month’s Higher Things Conference in Scranton (“The Electric City”). The texts were Acts 2 and Luke 24; the conference theme was “Amen.” It is an incredible joy to preach at these conferences – almost as much fun, but not nearly as terrifying, as playing the organ in Kramer Chapel for a service. David Kind, pastor of University Lutheran Chapel, did a phenomenal job as conference chaplain – and also preached a very fine sermon. He also was a pastor to me that week, and I will always be grateful to him for that. — The voice of terror and doom pierces our every hiding place; it is the voice of the…