S2E35: God’s Son, the Beloved (Baptism of the Lord 2015)

This Sunday is Baptism of the Lord Sunday on the Church calendar, a day when we usher in the ordinary time after Epiphany with the story of Jesus' baptism.  It's an interesting bookend to the Advent season, which we brought in with Isaiah's plea for God to tear open the heavens.  Now, at Jesus' baptism in the Jordan river, we see that prayer fulfilled, and we take the opportunity to renew our own baptismal covenant.  So grab your Bible, turn it to Mark chapter one, and prepare your heart and mind as we look at God's Son, the Beloved.

Mark 1:4-11

Recorded at Hudson UMC on January 11, 2015 (Originally published February 5, 2015)

S.D.G.