Matthew 3:13-17 “Is he going to drown her?” I thought to myself. I was in Romania a decade ago as part of a group of students from Wake Forest Divinity School on pilgrimage for a week, where we were attending a Sunday night baptism service. The large, zealous,...
Matthew 4:12-23 “Immediately they left their nets and followed Jesus.” It’s a jarring, almost fanciful moment – how quickly Andrew and Simon, then James and John – set down their nets. Because it’s not just the nets that drop, it’s a way of being and a whole set of...
Isaiah 35:1-10 and Matthew 11:2-11 It was December 1943 and another Advent season had come for the Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer loved Advent. “ The joy of God goes through the poverty of the manger and the agony of the cross”...
FBC Youth had a cookout on the rooftop Sunday night to begin our week of ministry at Metro Baptist Church in New York, and at the end of the evening we asked for God’s blessing on our service with a familiar song: [youtube...
