Branson's Baptism

Branson was baptized on the 4th of July. We were so excited and very proud because:

"In Holy Baptism our gracious heavenly Father liberates us from sin and death by
joining us to the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are born
children of a fallen humanity; in the waters of Baptism we are reborn children
of God and inheritors of eternal life. By the water and the Holy Spirit we are
made members of the Church which is the body of Christ. As we live with him and
with his people, we grow in faith, love, and obedience to the will of God."

(from The Lutheran Book of Worship, copyright 1978 by Lutheran Church of America, The American Lutheran Church, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod)