Baptism (233)
  1. Every day for the baptized is a good day to die."
  2. “In a culture that promotes self-interest, children in church learn that something much bigger and more important than themselves is going on in their midst."
  3. When God adds His promise to creation, we understand a greater reality than what we see: Light given; Light that sustains life; Light that will end up living in the midst of his people forever.
  4. As we begin recording into the new year, the Thinking Fellows take time to answer two big listener questions.
  5. Instead of burning them up with unquenchable fire, He comes in solidarity, to be God with us and God for us. Jesus is baptized into our life, so that He could gift us His life.
  6. Babies need to be baptized for the same reason that all Christians need to be absolved: All of us are born into and contribute to this sin-wrecked show of a life.
  7. On episode THIRTY-EIGHT of Let the Bird Fly! the guys hold Wade off for one more episode, so that Mike and Peter can continue the discussion on Luther’s Baptismal Rite that they began with Ben on Episode 37.
  8. On episode THIRTY-SEVEN of Let the Bird Fly! the guys shake Wade once again and are able to talk about what they want to for a change.
  9. I’m going to begin at the beginning. But which one? Birth? Kindergarten? My first drink? The first time I had sex?
  10. Growing up, I dreaded the first Sunday of each quarter. Every time during the evening service, we would have Lord’s Supper after the sermon.
  11. We practice infant baptism because that is the ancient practice, following the command of Scripture.
  12. God’s justification of us does not happen secretly in our spirits. God justifies you and me in His absolving Word
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