Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Epiphany 1C

  • The Baptism of Jesus invites us to remember his place among us, with us, rather than the throne upon which we seek to seat him.

  • In the baptism of Jesus, we are invited into old debates about the nature of Jesus and baptism, but a bigger debate is right there.

  • The Baptism of Our Lord connects us to Jesus and Jesus to the divine—a story, not just of theological importance, but of purpose.

  • The Baptism of Jesus is the beginning of the story. And it reminds us of the central theme of the gospel is new life.

  • This is huge! And I honestly don’t understand why we don’t get this time off of school and aren’t making a bigger deal of it. Putting Jesus’s baptism at the center of faith Epiphany 1C |  Luke 3:15-22 The big deal There are three ways we know that Jesus’s baptism was about as important to…