A sermon preached at Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church by Pr. Benjamin Tomczak.

"To all appearances, Baptism looks pretty shabby. A little bit of water poured or sprinkled upon a baby's head and this, in the poetry of Jaroslav Vajda's hymn, means that the child of nature we brought to the font 'home we take a newborn creature'?

"This past weekend I got to thinking, as I poured this divine water upon another child, I got to thinking about how just the night before I drenched my children in bath water. And the sinful mind thinks, 'What's the difference?' Thus the question for tonight, 'How can water do such great things?'"

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