This Sunday in worship we will continue to follow the church's worship calendar and commemorate the second high Sunday of the year (the first being last Sunday, Epiphany): The feast of the Baptism of the Lord. It is the moment where it all began for our Lord (at least concerning his ministry): his baptism in the Jordan River. What went under those waters was the Son of God. What arose from those waters was the Son of God in mission, empowered as he was to preach the imminence of the kingdom of God. Patterned on his baptism, we too will get a chance to recall and to reaffirm the moment when the journey of faith began for us. Baptism is the door of the Christian life. Let's remember why we passed through it this Sunday.