Matthew 25:31-46 Dear Partner in Preaching, First, a note of profound apology. I was experimenting over the weekend with embedding different kinds of links on blog posts and, much to my surprise and embarrassment, they were sent out to you on Saturday and Sunday. I’m assuming I had the temporary post up – oddly, for no more than 5 minutes – when the program that sends out new posts to subscribers went out. As I immediately deleted all temporary posts when I was finished, I have no idea how or why one went out again on Sunday. In event, this was not a meant as a sales-pitch, endorsement, or Christmas wish-list! J I’m...

It’s taken me a little over a week to read through and digest (or at least begin to digest) all the comments and fabulous conversation about baptism. Which is why I title this post, “What I am learning about baptism,” rather than “learned” or even “believe,” let alone “know for sure.” What you all have shared keeps teaching me about baptism and for that I am grateful. So, several things: 1) We don’t talk about Baptism enough! Goodness gracious, but there were enough marvelous questions, great insights, strong opinions, and wonderfully open invitations to dialogue that we could fill who knows how many Sunday mornings with...