“We must not come to the text of Scripture with our modern debates in the forefront of our mind. Our modern debates should be settled by Scripture, but this does not mean they are found in Scripture. The issue for us should be to learn what their debates were. And as the history of the …
Quite a Few Words to Look Up
“Many Christians have come to baptistic conclusions because they simply took a Bible and a concordance, and then looked up every incident of baptism in the New Testament. This is objectionable, not because they studied they pasages concerned with baptism, but because they did not look up all the passages that addressed parents, children, generations, …
Arguments Like Ephraim
“Perhaps at the outset I may be able to reassure the baptist reader by saying there will be no ‘babies of the Philippian jailer’ arguments . . . Arguments from silence not only do not establish the point they seek to establish, they do help establish the reputation of paedobaptists in making desperate and valiant …
Parents May Always Trust
“When it comes to child-rearing, between the Old and New Testaments there is total and complete continuity on the subject of godly parenting. There is no discontinuity. It needs to be emphasized again that there is continuity in the promises of God with regard to parenting. Not surprisingly, this has ramifications for the subject of …
Of Course Not
“It is important for biblical paedobaptists to attack publicly the various errors that have grown up around the practice of infant baptism . . . we need to get to the point where no one would dream of accusing an evangelical paedobaptist of holding to the false and destructive doctrine of baptismal regeneration” (To a …
Where Nominal Christians Come From
“The real origin of nominalism is to be found in all churches that refuse to discipline in terms of their baptism, whatever their practice of baptism may be” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 7).
That Day Approaches
“And because God is good, the day will come when the prayer of the apostle Paul will be answered, and all the saints will come to see the glory in grace — grasping the ungraspable, knowing the unknowable, and marveling at how unworthy wretches can be dressed in a righteousness not their own” (Back to …
Deep Black Soil
“A true understanding of the doctrines of grace will not only replace factionalism with visible love and humility, but also usher in powerful gospel preaching. In an age when the church thinks more of marketing herself than preaching her crucified Lord, such a result is greatly to be desired. We may lament the fact that …
That Eternal Haven
“The Bible very clearly grounds the believer’s security in God. We do not save ourselves, and we do not keep ourselves saved . . . Can we really take comfort in an unbelieving modification of Christ’s words — ‘Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world, if you make sure the world does not …
We Do Own Our Presents
“Some may object that if we must repent, and we must have faith, then these things cannot be the gift of God. If God gives them, how are they ours? The answer is that they are ours because God gives them to us” (Back to Basics, p.55)