One last reminder, a group of folks from UPT are going to hold a short worship service in front of the Rochester City School District office this morning at 8. The office is at 131 W. Broad downtown; that's just west of Broad and Plymouth on the south side of Broad St. There will be plenty of parking nearby. We're worshiping there as an opening to our observance of the Children's Sabbath, a day set apart for lifting up the needs of children in our community. So come, sing, raise your voice for children and for justice.
Today's reading introduces us to John the Baptist, one of the most powerful voices for justice in the New Testament. John came to call people to repentance and prepare the way for Christ. May we hear his word for our generation as well.
God bless,
Sam
Luke
3:1-6
In
the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was
governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler
of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2during
the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of
Zechariah in the wilderness.
3He went into
all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the
forgiveness of sins, 4as it is written in the book of the words of
the prophet Isaiah, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 5Every valley shall be
filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be
made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; 6and all flesh shall
see the salvation of God.’”
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