Jesus calls ordinary people and forms a people with a purpose. The fish becomes a compact sign of identity—belonging to Christ—and a sign of mission—joining Jesus in bringing good news to real places....

John names Jesus with a symbol that carries a whole story: deliverance, mercy, sacrifice, and hope. The Lamb reframes power - God rescues not by domination, but by costly, healing, sacrificial love....

Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the hea...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it....

This week in our Advent series of asking and answering the complex question “What Child IS This?”, we encounter another description of the Christ Child that will tell us much more about who he was destined to be....