“Do circumcision and baptism refer to the same spiritual realities? If they do, and one is required for infants, then the other cannot be excluded because of what it signifies” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 73)
Some Jesus Victim With His Flame On
Sins are like grapes. They come in bunches. Take, fer instance, the Wild Goose Festival, at which a bunch of left-of-center evangelicals have congregated in order to harangue the faithful. Actually, when I use the term “faithful” here, what I actually mean is that they gathered to harangue the faithless. Jim Wallis, Frank Schaeffer, et …
At Least Some . . .
“Under the providence of God and the teaching and leadership of the apostles, circumcision was ‘fading away,’ along with the rest of the cultus of the Old Covenant . . . But while circumcision was fading away, it continued to be practiced by thousands in a way that affected the membership of the visible church …
Alive Right Now
“For we give the impression that he who spoke centuries ago is silent today; and that the only word we can hear from him comes out of a book, a faint echo from the distant past, smelling strongly of the mould of libraries. But no, this is not at all what we believe. Scripture is …
The Point At Issue
“So if there was Christian circumcision (and there was), and if there were Christian synagogues (and there were), and if the Christians who went to these synagogues were the same believers who circumcised their sons (and they were), then the necessary conclusion is that we know with certainty that some first century churches had infant …
Said and Done
“Other preachers are entirely faithful in their exposition of God’s Word, yet remain dull and academic because they have forgotten that the heart of the Bible is not what God has said, but what he has done for our salvation through Jesus Christ” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 100).
A Greece Fire
The difference between secular conservatives and secular progressives is that the conservatives talk sense without a foundation, and the progressives talk nonsense without one. Take the truism that you cannot indefinitely spend money you don’t have. The secular conservatives believe that reality is not optional, but cannot give a thorough or consistent account of that …
Christian Copies
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #40 “For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in …
And the Answer is “Sure.”
“‘Myriads’ of Jews had believed. There had been three thousand on the first day alone, so obviously there had to be numerous meeting places for them. James refers to these assemblies of Christian Jews as synagogues. These same Christian Jews, we have established, continued to circumcise their sons, and were organized in a network of …
Straight Foundations
“The kind of God we believe in determines the kind of sermons we preach” (Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 93).