Sermon #35 — Getting Ready for Jesus: Turning toward Life — Matthew 3:1-12

~ gachorpenning

Frost and Sunlight; photo by GAC.
Frost and Sunlight; photo by GAC.

Who am I?  How do I measure myself?  Do I have the courage — or the faith — to look at myself as I really am in light of who I was meant to be?  Why would I want to do that?

“Repentence” sounds like such an old-fashioned notion — a word uttered by a be-whiskered preacher in a candle-lit church.  Yet, there it is at every turn in my Bible.  What does it mean?  What are we to do with it?  Why should we even care?

In this sermon, we explore this ancient yet still urgent notion.  Here in Matthew’s gospel John the Baptist calls us back to our true identity.

Read Matthew 3:1-12.

Then listen to “Getting Ready for Jesus: Turning toward Life.”

©2012 Gary A. Chorpenning; all rights reserved.

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Published by gachorpenning

I am a husband, father, and grandfather. A small, town about fifteen miles west of Pittsburgh is home currently, though several other places have served that purpose before this. I maintain a YouTube channel of Bible teaching videos and a podcast of Bible teaching audio. I like to make things in my woodshop. I like taking photographs and use a lot of them in my blog posts. I go fishing in the local streams and lakes when I can. For thirty-nine years, I served as a pastor of churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

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