Eternity Church Podcast

A Sunday morning sermon by Dorothy Hood. There is something so beautiful about reading Scripture together with others, to hear the words of God spoken through prophets and people, priests and kings. Before Elise and I started our family, I decided the first words I wanted our newborns to hear were our loving prayers over them and the words of the Scripture. For each one, we sensed a particular life-verse and a psalm that helped us receive each unique child. It was a way for the Lord to prepare us for how we should parent each little life toward maturity. Along with a special verse and a psalm to sing over them, I read one of the John the Baptist passages (thankfully, all four gospels share about the wilderness waymaker and we had four children). Over each one of our children, I foresaw God’s invitation for all of us to repentance and to make the way for others. Truly, if we are made in the image of God with the capacity to know Him and the capability to represent Him to others, then the words of John the Bap