Read Mark 1:9-13 with your family.

The Gospel of Mark doesn’t give us story details like the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. We read the outline of a story, and then move on. The Gospel of Mark is very fast.

In this scripture lesson we have both Jesus’ baptism and then Jesus going out to the desert to be tempted.

One of the things many new Christians do is get very excited about doing all sorts of things with their church community, and then they usually get tired or frustrated and quit both the activity and their faith community.

This story shows us that taking our time to think more about what we believe and why, is a better way to grow as a Christian before we get involved in all the activities of our church.

Faith doesn’t just happen at baptism and then it’s there for life. Faith is something we have to keep practicing so it can grow.