This week Rev. Rachel begins a new series on how we read the Bible by starting with one steady truth: we are God’s beloved before anything else.

Through Jesus’ baptism and the call of Matthew 25, she reminds us that faith is not about proving worth or staying safe. It is about remembering who we are, where Christ already stands, and how love shapes the way we meet a hurting world.

This reflection connects baptism to real life — to grief, to public harm, to quiet courage — and invites us back to the waters not to repeat a ritual, but to remember our place among the hungry, the displaced, and the loved. 

Beloved first. Then we live like it.

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