God Is Calling You Into Relationship

Each week as I prepare worship, often with the sermon in mind, there are a variety of practices I employ. In addition to time invested in prayer and studying the scripture passage, I dig into theologians' writings who have also studied our scripture passage. This week's readings offered the introductory line to this week's letter.

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I can't stop thinking about baptism today

Good afternoon.

Today is a day when I would like to inundate you with quotes from other individuals - people who offer framework for my thoughts, people who have spoken more on the topics running through my head, people who are not in my shoes with my responsibilities. Sometimes historically recognized quotes can touch a person's nostalgic-nerve, or other times a leader can deflect responsibility for responses when offering another individual's words. These thoughts have all crossed my mind.

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