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  • Wedding Homily #3

    Wedding Homily #3

    HK and Alex, it is a great honor to be with you here today as you make your vows before God and these witnesses, and enter into the covenant of marriage. You have both given your lives to Christ, and today you come to give him your life together as well. You both believe the Read more

  • Chrysostom on the Church

    Chrysostom on the Church

    Never separate yourself from the Church. For nothing is stronger than the Church. Your hope is the Church alone; your salvation is inside the Church only, your refuge is the Church. She is higher than the heavens, and wider than the whole earth. She never grows old, but is always full of vigor and vitality. Read more

  • What Mark Dever Gets Right and Wrong about Paedobaptists

    What Mark Dever Gets Right and Wrong about Paedobaptists

    A friend sent me a link to this clip, which is making the rounds. I know next to nothing about Mark Dever, but I do want to give a quick threefold response to his claims about baptism. First, Dever claims that paedobaptism and baptismal regeneration have historically gone together. On that point, he is exactly right. Read more

  • God Wants His Rainbow Back (Baptism Exhortation)

    God Wants His Rainbow Back (Baptism Exhortation)

    The D family is a covenant household and so today they bring R for covenant baptism.  We have probably seen more rainbows this month than we care to. Why? Because the symbol of the rainbow has been hijacked. God gave the rainbow as a sign of his promise but  man has turned it into a Read more

  • Baptismal Exhortation: Baptism as Divine Gift

    Baptismal Exhortation: Baptism as Divine Gift

    The Bible makes astounding claims for baptism. For example: In Acts 2, Peter says baptism is for the forgiveness of sins. In Titus 3, Paul calls baptism the washing of regeneration. In Romans 6, Paul says we are united to Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection in baptism. In Galatians 3, Paul says in Read more

  • Ephesians 4:5 and the Unity of the Church

    Ephesians 4:5 and the Unity of the Church

    Paul’s formula for unity in Ephesians 4:5 is helpful because of its balance: there is one faith, one Lord, one baptism (+ one Eucharist) — that is to say, there is the content of the faith, the way it is lived out under Christ’s lordship, and the sacramental boundaries drawn around the church. All three Read more