We're going to run long again today, so without any prologue, let's get underway.

Let me share a "funny" with you as we get underway today. I've mentioned our six-year-old granddaughter, Jasmine, a couple of times over the past months.

Well, have you gotten past the hustle and bustle (and commercialization) of the Christmas season and New Years? Whewww!!! Get's really tiring, doesn't it?

We left off in this series the week before Christmas talking about baptisms, and specifically the baptism of fire.