Water
Water Mark 1:4-11 Christian Community Presbyterian Church, Bowie, Maryland 10 January 2021 Water... What’s your first memory of water? When were you cognizant that water was something more than what went in a sippy cup or a bath tub? Water can be described in many ways beside wet. Water is dangerous, fun, cleansing, comforting, scary, powerful, useful, purifying, vast, simple, complex. Water is used in so many ways that we don’t really notice it. Water... Water is dangerous. In 2017 Hurricane Harvey deposited more than four feet of water on some eastern Texas communities. A 50 foot tsunami wall of water caused a meltdown at the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear power plant in 2011. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina breached levees and flooded much of New Orleans. Water...dangerous...destructive...deadly. The waters of baptism are also dangerous, destructive and deadly. Two boys, walking through the woods along a river, came to a clearing where a minister was dunking people in the w