Pastor Taylor Shippy - Mark 1:13-16; Matthew 3:13-17; Luke 3:21-22

Today is a Baptism Service at Gibbon Baptist Church! We looked at Jesus’ memorable baptism considering that maybe we’re meant to see our own baptisms through the lens of His? That a dimension of revisiting Jesus’ memorable baptism isn’t simply to recall a historical moment in Jesus’ life but to see echoes, reflections, if not ourselves in the story with Jesus… That when we “join with Christ Jesus in baptism” (Rom 6:3) we ought to hear the words spoken by the Father as if they were spoken to us, ‘You are my dearly beloved child, in whom I am well pleased.’