Repentance is not just feeling guilty or saying that we're sorry. Repentance means we change the way we act toward others. John calls this new way of acting "fruits of repentance," and when people ask what those are he is very specific in his answers.

John the Baptist, the "voice crying out in the wilderness," plays a little fast and loose with Isaiah and opens the door to the transformation of the world. How does he do this?

When Jesus was baptized, the voice from heaven clearly commissioned Jesus as a servant but also as a king. We, too, are called to royalty.

Children's Moment 11/22/2015

In the scripture for today, the writer of Hebrews has misread Genesis, largely by not continuing to read to the end of the story of Jacob and Esau. In our day, people sometimes make that same kind of mistake when they quote the Bible without having read to the end of the story. Sometimes those misreadings can do a great deal of harm.

Children's Moment November 15, 2015

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