Did I mention he’s also the patron saint of baptism? What fascinates me about John is that our first-century friends made the decision to go out and hear him in the wilderness. They took the ...

We also have references to him in the Jewish historian, Josephus, who was writing toward the end of the first century. So John the Baptist is clearly a very important figure of the time.

In Romans 6, Paul is dealing with a couple of objections he must have encountered more than a time or two in sharing the good ...