New Day Sermon Epiphany 2 Ritual cleansing prepared an individual to participate in something sacred (like worship or a wedding ceremony). Purity’s goal was to open a vertical channel to God, the source of everything sacred. Jesus’ miracle of water to wine created a link between religious practice and the sacredness of horizontal relationships.
Baptism of our Lord Sunday is about identity … Jesus’ identity as Son of God … and our identity as children of God. Baptism is at the heart of both these identities. In Jesus’ day, that identity was shaped through sermons spoken from hillsides and sermons preached from boats. If Jesus’ came to our world…
New Day Sermon the baptism of our lord Why did Jesus need to be baptized? He was sinless. Maybe the answer is more basic than we realize.
New Day Sermon Pentecost 4 Ever wonder how a bit of water can do a great thing?
New Day Sermon Lent 3 Random conversations. We all have them. We often have them with perfect strangers. How can these random conversations be moments of holiness?
