Something So Amazing You Have to Bring Someone Else to See it

What would be something so amazing that you would have to go get someone and bring them to see it as well? Let’s say you were walking down the street and you so a man throwing basketballs threw an outside window in a gym. From deep inside the gym after each shot you heard the [...]

Living By Faith, Not By Exception

“So this guy is walking up to the baptistry…he has repented and made his confession before the congregation and just as he steps in the water he slips hits his head on the floor. He dies right before he is baptized. Is he saved?”
The point normally being made with this type of question is whether [...]

Baptism – Related to Salvation but Not a Work

Two insights from Kittel’s Theological Dictionary of the New Testament that help us get a better understanding of baptism:
1) Baptism is seen in the New Testament as part of God’s reconciling process. Here are some words from Oepke in Kittel,
“Christian baptism certainly has as its final goal new and eternal life…the new life stands in [...]

Two Books you Need to Know About

Two books connected with Abilene Christian University have come out recently. Philip recently brought to my attention the new book by Randy Harris. The title is God Work: Confessions of a Standup Theologian. The second book I noticed on Jay Guin’s blog and this one looks fantastic. It is called Baptism in the Early Church: [...]