Introduction to a new Sermon Series for the Season of Epiphany -- Unwrapping the Gift: Having just completed the Christmas season with its gift giving and receiving traditions, we are using the idea of unwrapping a gift. Jesus is of course the gift to us, given at Christmas and Epiphany is when we get to unwrap it slowly, marveling at each facet of this gem. But this series is also looking ahead – toward the fulfillment of God’s promises in Holy Week and Easter. This series will ask what this gift means for us.

He Brings Spirit and Fire – On this observance of the Baptism of Our Lord, may the Lord Jesus set aflame the hearer through baptism. The words and deeds of God’s Baptized people are the way His kingdom comes and His will gets done. Do not undersell yourself as a vessel of the Spirit. Count on and trust in Him!