Through the amazing act of baptism, we are given a newness of life. When we are baptized, our old self is gone. It is buried as we go under the water, and when we come up out of the water we are raised up to a new life. Baptism provides...

Thirty years of preparation for Jesus’ ministry came to a climax in this defining and decisive moment in time. The past thirty years find their focus in the uniqueness of this event; Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance (Mark 1:4). It was...

Today’s passage is Jesus sharing the Passover meal with his disciples, shortly before he was arrested and crucified. Passover commemorates the deliverance from slavery that God accomplished for the Jewish people in the Exodus. It required killing a perfect lamb for the Passover meal. The lamb’s blood was wiped on...

When we have dedicated our lives to God and received salvation through Christ, we are instructed to follow the example Jesus set, and be baptized in water. Colossians 2:12 says that when we are baptized, our old life is buried with Christ, but we are also resurrected to a new...

The Christian life is a journey guided by faith. It’s a journey that calls us to walk with our eyes fixed on the unseen. There are challenges we navigate in this world that make it easy to forget the rock-solid certainty that the everlasting reality of Heaven awaits us. Imagine...