#epiphany 1c

This Week: Epiphany 1C Gospel: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 This week’s gospel is as straightforward as it gets. John the Baptist is baptizing people in the wilderness and Jesus comes to him to be baptized. Of course. And the Holy Spirit comes down like a dove. The voice of God booms, calling him beloved. Along with the straightforwardness comes the theological implications and questions about Jesus…

For Sunday  Epiphany 1C Collect Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into his Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, in glory…

Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. Why was this? How does it connect to John’s ministry of baptism? What does it reveal about God’s actions in Jesus towards us who are sinners? Father Jeremiah reflects on these things in his sermon from Baptism of Our Lord Sunday.

Image: Christ’s Baptism (San Marco), from the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice. Photo taken by Jim Forest, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, no changes made. Image location: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/3473212604

New Life in an Old World

The Baptism of Jesus is the beginning of the story. And it reminds us of the central theme of the gospel is new life. Baptism as BeginningEpiphany 1C  |  Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 drewdowns · New Life in an Old World (Epiphany 1C) listen to the audio right here The First Epiphany A long, long time ago, before the followers of Jesus accepted the term Christian to describe themselves, three…

This is huge! And I honestly don’t understand why we don’t get this time off of school and aren’t making a bigger deal of it.

Putting Jesus’s baptism at the center of faith Epiphany 1C |  Luke 3:15-22

The big deal

There are three ways we know that Jesus’s baptism was about as important to the early church as anything. I mean it. As in, up there with the crucifixion and the resurrection. This is…