Stand Up for Jesus

John the Baptist's vocation in the wilderness, that place where human frailty is laid bare, is the vocation of all Christians in these troubled times. We are surrounded by doubters and scoffers, and perhaps we lack the rhetorical skills to argue for our faith.

Yet we all possess choice in how we respond to our personal form of wilderness. We can each of us choose how to relate to those around us. In this lies the ability to put forward the Christian viewpoint to its fullest measure: that we love each other as ourselves, and that we love the Lord our God with all that we are.

The Word of life which was from the beginning we proclaim to you (from 1 John 1).