Lectionary: Series B (54)
  1. Just as God brought life from the chaotic formless waters at creation, so He brought life from the waters of the Jordan for you in Christ.
  2. It was because He wore all our ugliness and mockery on the cross that we have this great exchange.
  3. How would you respond in trust to the God who is with us? This is a perfect line of thinking on Christmas Eve as we behold the coming of Christ the King as the babe of Bethlehem who is our Emmanuel.
  4. The main teaching for our text is: Salvation is something God clothes us with and not something we manufacture.
  5. The message we proclaim will and must always be that Jesus died and rose again. This is the full good news we need.
  6. Verses like this, when kept in the Law, keep the Bible a closed book of condemnation. Without Christ to unlock the scriptures and to open up the Gospel for us, we cannot be saved.