Steven Bouma-Prediger

Read: Genesis 1:20-23 Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures. (v. 20 NRSV) The water was crystal clear and the color of turquoise. We couldn’t wait to see

Read: Revelation 21:1-6 To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. (v. 6 NRSV) The vision is mind-boggling. John the

Read: 1 John 5:6-8 This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. (v. 6 NRSV) The one who came by water. Baptism. The one who came

Read: Galatians 3:23-29 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. (v. 27 NRSV) In this passage from his great letter on Christian freedom,

Read: Acts 8:26-40 What is to prevent me from being baptized? (v. 37 NRSV) The Ethiopian Minister of the Treasury was on his way home after a trip to a

Read: John 7:37-44 Let anyone who is thirsty come to me. (v. 37 NRSV) It was the time of the Jewish Festival of Booths. For seven days water was carried

Read: John 4:1-42 Where do you get that living water? (v. 11 NRSV) It was a most unlikely sight. Jesus, a Jewish rabbi, talking with a Samaritan woman at a

Read: Mark 4:35-41 He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” (v. 39 NRSV) It was a terrible storm. The wind was so

Read: Matthew 3:13-17 And when Jesus had been baptized . . . (v. 16 NRSV) Baptism. As followers of Jesus, we do it in different ways. Some of us dunk;