Tag: Feast of the Baptism of our Lord

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  Into What Then Were You Baptized? – A Sermon on Mark 1:4-11

  January 16, 2015

  I remember someone saying to me many years ago, “I’ve had a bad decade. There are things I wish I could re-do. I’d make different choices. So many words I wish I hadn’t said. Relationships that I’d do differently.” It probably doesn’t take a lot of imagination to know what he means. It may not Read more
• In Whose Name Shall I Baptize You?

  January 9, 2012

  Seeing you, O Christ our God, drawing near to him in the river Jordan, John said Why are You who are without defilement come to your servant, O Lord? In whose name shall I baptize you? Of the Father? But you bear him in yourself. Of the Son? But you are yourself the Son made flesh. Of the Holy Spirit? But Read more
• Immersed in Each Other’s Lives – A Sermon on Matthew 3:13-17, Baptism of our Lord

  January 9, 2011

  Today, the First Sunday after the Epiphany, we celebrate the Baptism of our Lord. The collect and readings may be found here. The appointed gospel is Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by Read more
• “You can’t touch me. I’ve been baptized!”

  January 10, 2010

  Today is the First Sunday after the Epiphany. On this day we always celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord. The collect and readings for today may be found here. Since the readings from Isaiah and Luke seem connected I have included both below. Isaiah 43:1-7 Thus says the Lord, he who created Read more