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Jan 2025
Baptism of Jesus 2025 Rev. Dr. Chris Hensley January 19th, 2025 Luke 3:15-17, 20-22 Baptism has been an important sacrament, ordinance, rite, or whatever word you would like to attach to it, since before Christianity even existed. Baptism, which means to immerse or dip or wash, is an act of individual worship, a ritual which was done solo and was done so that the individual in question might be made ceremonially clean once again after having been through an event which made them unclean. John the Baptist, though was baptizing people in......
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Jan 2019
Sermon Amanda Lewis January 13, 2019 Sermon January 13 2019 updated (2) Psalm 29 is a fitting text for today. And not just because Baptism of the Lord Sunday this psalm calls us to remember the name of the Lord 18 times! Though we’re separated by many years and many miles, the angst that is in the background of this ancient hymn isn’t all too different than our world today. This hymn of celebration comes from a time when Israelites were fighting with the Canaanites for control of the region- they’re fighting......
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