Trueman engages the question of “What is man?” and demonstrates how contemporary definitions of mankind result in the dehumanizing of our neighbor.
This is an excerpt from the third chapter of By Water and the Word: God’s Gift of Baptism for You by Brian Thomas (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 52-60.
Even when the bitter places sink down deep into our bones, the Restorer never relinquishes his grip on you.

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In this evil generation we’re all in the dark about something. We’re all inevitably overcome by the darkness of sin and death.
“Why now,” I said to no one, or to myself, or to God. Whoever. I was drunk, strung out, mostly dead, hopeless in the darkness. I knew I’d done it all to myself. I didn’t need God to drive the point home.
Believe in God, belong to a church, and behave yourself isn’t the Gospel.
I’m still piecing together fragments. I’ve spent my life collecting scraps of personal stories that will explain my father to me.
But I remember that that’s how it ended. Words. Wine. Blood. A sudden halt to the conversation.
The kind of peace Jesus points to can't be achieved with words.