January 12, 2020 Matthew 3:13-17 In my previous life, as many of you know, I was a lawyer. I did several brief stints as a summer associate at big law firms. Which is, or was in the late 90s anyway, a pretty great life. Not too much work was expected and you got feted with fancy meals and trips to interesting places. But when we weren’t taken out to lunch, one of my favorite perks was the subsidized cafeteria at one of the firms. The food was decent and cheap, and it provided a great social break from the billable hour cycle. But in the cafeteria there was a rather mysterious closed-off side room for the partners. And so while we’d sometimes enter the cafeteria with the partners, they always veered off into that special room and disappeared to eat. My friends and I would joke about what might be behind the door... imagining linen tablecloths and caviar by candlelight, and maybe some of those kneeling massage stations. In the regular-people room, there were big round