Baptism (163)
  1. The baptized do not celebrate sin—they grieve it.
  2. When you remember your baptism, you're not recalling a ritual. You're standing under a current of divine action that has not ceased to flow since the moment those baptismal waters hit your skin.
  3. There is a “re” involved with baptism, but unlike the Anabaptists, it’s not a “re-do,” but a “re-turn" or a “re-member.”
  4. The name of Jesus holds us fast.
  5. This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Junk Drawer Jesus written by Matt Popovits (1517 Publishing, 2024). Available today!
  6. Jesus came for little children, and that is what we are. We are children of God.
  7. As both law and gospel are proclaimed, judgment and deliverance are miraculously pronounced over the hearer.
  8. A miracle happened right before our very eyes.
  9. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  10. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  11. Bathed in the waters of baptism, you are placed in God's path of totality, a path he won for each and every one of us.
  12. You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
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