Why We Baptize

Genesis 1:1-5; Psalm 29; Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11

This second Sunday of Epiphany we celebrate the baptism of our Lord, Jesus Christ. We celebrate the humbleness of our God, who emptied Himself of power and insisted that He undergo the same humbling ritual that He asks each of us to undergo. Later, our same God would allow Himself to be humiliated, stripp…