Archive for February 2015
1 John 2:15 — Deacons Lead Us to Love God & Others (Deacons Ordination / Installation Service)
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [1] Five years ago I preached three sermons about life within God’s Church. Elders Lead us into the Light. Deacons Lead us into Acts of…
Read MoreInfant Baptism: How My Mind Has Changed by Dennis E. Johnson
In 1994 one of our daughters, while away from home attending college, asked me to explain the rationale I saw in God’s Word for baptizing the infant children of believers. Since I was a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church when she and her siblings were born, they had all been baptized as infants; but…
Read MoreWhy We Baptize the Children of Believers
“Why does your church baptize infants?” This is a question that is often asked by visitors to Reformed and Presbyterian churches. Since the historic practice of baptizing the children of believers is largely a foreign concept to the vast majority of evangelicals today, accepting this doctrine can be a difficult hurdle for a family that…
Read MoreThe Old & New Command to Love
1 John 2:7-11 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you,…
Read More1 John 2:3-6 — How Can I Be Sure I Really Know God Personally?
Reverend Anthony R. Locke John 2:3-6 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love…
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