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2021/01/10 By Barry Leave a Comment

Baptized, but why?

The Baptism of the Lord Sunday is one of the recurring Sundays in the church year. I don’t mind recurring Sundays. I feel there is real value in looking again at something familiar . . . but actually looking at it. Regardless of all that I was wondering what I was going to say about […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: baptism, Baptism of the Lord, preaching, water

2018/01/07 By Barry Leave a Comment

Why did Jesus get baptized?

As I have mentioned more than once before, one of the most aggravating things about following the Lectionary is having to go over the same thing every year; also, one of the best things about the Lectionary is going over the same thing every year. Seems I’m a little conflicted. The aggravation comes from the […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: baptism, Baptism of Christ, Baptism of our Lord, Baptism of the Lord, dove, holy spirit, incarnation, Jesus, John the Baptist, preaching

2016/01/10 By Barry Leave a Comment

Jesus’ baptism considered

 We are “required” to consider Jesus’ baptism every year. The first Sunday after Epiphany is called the Baptism of our Lord Sunday, so it is more or less inescapable; but why? Why is this in the church calendar and given its own Sunday? Why do we we need to revisit something like this every year? […]

Filed Under: Epiphany, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: baptism, Baptism of the Lord, John the Baptist, Lectionary, preaching

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