Sermon: Lent I, February 21 2021 – Mark 1: 9-15
Jesus, age thirty-ish, had a new future opened to him. Baptized by his cousin John, a heavenly voice named and claimed Jesus, and he knew that his life was going to be radically different from then on. What exactly was this going to look like? He did not know, but he and God both knew that he needed to find out. According to the gospel of Mark, the Holy Spirit either led him or propelled him into the barren wilderness …