Baptism (160)
  1. The name of Jesus holds us fast.
  2. This is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Junk Drawer Jesus written by Matt Popovits (1517 Publishing, 2024). Available today!
  3. Jesus came for little children, and that is what we are. We are children of God.
  4. As both law and gospel are proclaimed, judgment and deliverance are miraculously pronounced over the hearer.
  5. A miracle happened right before our very eyes.
  6. God chose Russell Brand, chose to defy his fast-escaping life and drink up all his swift-running sin in the River Thames.
  7. Like the serpent on the pole, God still puts real-life things up for us to look to for salvation.
  8. 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.
  9. You are the baptized, for in Christ we are all wet. The demographic dividers are washed away.
  10. The seemingly small, the particular, the previously overlooked, magnifies in importance.
  11. It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.
  12. God comes to us through the flesh and blood and spirit of Christ precisely where he promised to be manifest to us and for us.
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