Baptism (240)
  1. I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.
  2. Who should we baptize and when? How old does the person have to be? What if we get it wrong? Will something terrible happen to us?
  3. A single, fifteen minute sermon that proclaims Christ and him crucified for you is more important than hundreds of hours of lectures by experts on revitalizing your ministry.
  4. Old Testament narratives foreshadowed the gifts that our Father gives us in baptism.
  5. The arrangement was made with Abraham when God claimed for Himself all of his being, and put the seal of His promise upon the most personal member of his anatomy.
  6. In his Gospel account, Luke challenges us to play "Where is Jesus?"
  7. In those waters we are nailed to his cross and washed out the door of his tomb. Within his wounds we safely hide.
  8. Daniel and Erick explore the Baptism of Jesus. Why was He baptized? Why is righteousness at stake? What does it say about our repentance?
  9. The redeemed are dressed in white robes.
  10. Every Christian is abundantly rich through baptism.
  11. We find such a temptation when the devil causes us to question God’s election or predestination of us in “eternity as a past event” (i.e. “eternity-past”).
  12. He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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