This week, we learn something of his preaching. John’s message ... So, how is our own Advent repentance going in these last two weeks of the season? Am I hearing the Baptist, or do I want ...

John the Baptist is a mysterious figure in the ... and he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins [Luke 3:1-3].

at least in the preaching calendar followed in my own Episcopal Church tradition. Like John the Baptist, Advent is out of phase with its time, with our time. It encroaches upon us in an ...

John the Baptist was strange because he was going against the flow. Preaching against adultery ... His main theme was repentance, which is still the hope of the church today.

At the foundation of it all is Jesus and his preaching about the kingdom ... about this holistic approach to repentance, a later text about John the Baptist’s teaching and baptism reinforces ...

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all lay emphasis on the ... to prepare the way for the ministry of Jesus by preaching a message of repentance from sin. John is described in both ...

“In those days John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea ... 8 Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance. 9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham ...