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Infant 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 MoreDo Presbyterians Celebrate Ash Wednesday & Lent? Isaiah 58:1-14
Ashes that Matter Reverend Anthony R. Locke March 6th, 2011 www.FirstPresTucker.org at the First Presbyterian Church of Tucker Do Presbyterians celebrate Ash Wednesday & Lent? English Standard Version Isaiah 58:1-14 1 “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob…
Read Moreand the Life Everlasting — John 17:1-3
October 17th, 2010 Apostle’s Creed Series John 17:1-3 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom…
Read MoreIs FAITH the Necessary Good Works to get Into Heaven?
April 18th, 2010 Apostle’s Creed Series 01 John 6:22-40 22 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 23 Other boats…
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