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Photo by Joshua Woroniecki on Unsplash Read Our Passage, Luke 3:1-22, for this Week... 3 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah

Read: Luke 2:41-52 We call ourselves "followers of Jesus" because we want to obey his teaching and live the way he lived. Paul, who taught in the markets while he made tents, told us we should be "imitators of me, as I imitate Christ." But should we imitate the child Jesus? In this week's account from the gospel writer Luke, we see the one story from Jesus's childhood that we should definitely imitate. Now

Photo by Omar Lopez on Unsplash Waiting, waiting, waiting. Day after day Simeon waited. God the Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would see the Messiah, the Christ, before he died. So he waited. And waited. And waited. And then one day the Holy Spirit moved him to go into the temple courts. A poor, young couple came in to make the law's offering for their firstborn son. The courts were probably