We have pressure on us. Sure, we blame other things like covid or the holidays, but really, we take on ourselves things we were never meant to carry. We want our voices to be heard, when that's not what we need at all. Our voices fade away, Christ is the Word who endures forever. John the Baptist teaches us what a spirit of gentleness actually looks like and why we can rejoice having this pressure released from us.
Sermon on John 1:19-28 by Rev. Jeff Hendrix, with thoughts borrowed from some other good pastors.