Baptism is on my mind. Tomorrow is the Sunday of the Baptism of our Lord, and so last week I wrote a column on that for Working Preacher. This morning’s devotional reading happened to be Luke’s brief description of Jesus’ baptism as well. And near the beginning of the week I wrote a...

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who,     though he was in the form of God,         did not regard equality with God         as something to be exploited,         but emptied himself,         taking the form of a slave,         being born in human...