Here is my sermon from January 7, the 1st Sunday after the Epiphany. I explore John the Baptist’s message in Mark 1:4-11 that ultimately we must be baptized by the Holy Spirit, as well as Kristin Kobes du Mez’s book Jesus & John Wayne and Gregory of Nyssa’s Great Catechism to ask what Christians’ attitudes towards tradition and change ought to be.
I thoroughly recommend you read Prof. du Mez’s book, which you can find here:
https://calvin.edu/directory/publications/jesus-and-john-wayne-how-white-evangelicals-corrupted-a-faith-and-fractured-a-nation
Wrestling with the Angel 