Epiphany Sunday

This Epiphany message invites us on a journey with the Magi, those mysterious travelers who followed a star to find the newborn King. What makes their story so compelling is how much it mirrors our own spiritual journey—full of wrong turns, mistakes, and divine redirections. The wise men ended up in Jerusalem first, the worst possible place, right in front of the murderous King Herod. Yet even in their missteps, God's Word guided them to Jesus. This is the heart of the message: it's not our wisdom, our planning, or our perfect navigation that leads us to Christ—it's God's Word. When we try to figure everything out on our own, we often miss the mark. But when we open Scripture and let it press our gaze downward instead of upward into speculation, we encounter Jesus exactly where He is. The Magi came to Jesus one way and left another way, transformed by their encounter with the King. The same is true for us. Once we've truly met Jesus through God's Word, we cannot return the same way we came. Our lives are redirected, our paths altered, our priorities reordered. This Epiphany season reminds us that the journey to Jesus is paved with Scripture, and the journey from Jesus is guided by that same living Word.