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"Repent, for the kingdom of the skies is coming soon," Matthew 3:2.

Ever see any of those crazies carrying a big poster around town warning of the calamities to come? (Likely we've seen them mostly in cartoon caricature, way seldom in real life.) Well, anyway. The words above got spoken by a man not standing on street corners. Instead, he was out in the boonies, a desert land that, oddly enough, had a stream flowing through it. Yeah. Swarms of people flowed out to the wilderness to listen to him. His name? John. And he dunked people in the river who wanted to show they had changed. So they called him Dunking John. Yes, they did. And he announced that a strong man was coming to dunk people with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Soon. (Spoiler alert: talking about Jesus.) Sky kingdom.

We meet today with a brother or sister in confident hope that yet again Jesus is coming soon in the sky. And, together, we give heartfelt thanks that God receives changing people into his kingdom.