Jesus is not just, again, an idea or providing some eternal salvation by and by.

Pastor Harold Sinkbile, author of The Issues, Cedre, Book of the Month for February,

Dying to Live, the Foundation Focus and Shape of the Christian Life.

But rather, here and now, he provides us every day by his living word, his life that changes us from the inside out.

Learn more about dying to live at Issuesetc.org.

We often speak of Jesus' death and resurrection as kind of points in history, which we accept as true.

Are they present-day realities in our Christian life? Welcome back to Issues Cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin.

It's time for part two of our series on sanctification. Pastor Harold Sinkbile joins us. He has served the church for more than five decades. As a parish pastor, professor, and spiritual care

provider for church workers, he's executive

director emeritus of Doxology, the Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel, and he's

author of the issues et cetera, book of the month, dying to live the foundation focus and shape

of the Christian life.

Pastor St. Bile, welcome back.

Great to be back again.

Talk about the rich baptismal imagery that we find

throughout Scripture. Yeah, contrary to a lot of impressions, baptism is not just a minor feature

within the Bible or in the Christian faith, but it really belongs to the heart and center of what

we're about.

I like to say that when you open the Bible, almost anywhere,

you are about to get very, very wet because there are baptismal overtones and to many of the narratives of Holy Scripture.

One of those images is the story of the crossing of the Red Sea.

How does that connect to baptism?

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