“I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me… He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” (Luke 3:11) We are now in the season of Advent, otherwise known as the season of hope. Hope is one of the three cardinal virtues of the Christian religion, along with “faith and love.” This is so because, as Paul says, these three virtues are inspired in us by the Holy Spirit. When I was a young boy, growing up in North Dakota,......

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