1) What is “Covenant Baptism” in one sentence? Covenant Baptism is God placing His covenant sign on believers and their children, bringing them into the visible church and calling them to live by faith in Christ. 2) Why baptize a baby who can’t yet profess faith? Because baptism is first God’s covenant act and promise-sign,…
Why We Gladly Place the Sign of Christ on Our Children There are few moments more tender in the life of a church than when a small child is brought to the font. Though such a thing has made many a Baptists angry or confused, the beauty of it all has also won a number…
Can Christians eat bacon? Can we order shrimp without a guilty conscience? Why do we worship on Sunday instead of Saturday? Are we still supposed to obey the Ten Commandments—or did Jesus “do away with the Law”? Those questions aren’t new. The New Testament itself is filled with them, because Jesus did something decisive: He…
This past Lord’s Day we saw in Romans 6:1–4 that baptism unites us with Christ in His death and resurrection. Through these waters, God marks us off as those who have passed from the old creation into the new. But notice something remarkable: the New Testament never really pauses to explain what baptism is. It assumes we…
When Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (Matt. 5:17), He was not tearing up the story of Israel and starting fresh. He was bringing it to its fullness. The Law and the Prophets remain…
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”—Hebrews 10:23 Baptism is not merely a rite of initiation; it is a declaration of allegiance and a summons to a new way of life. In baptism, we and our children are marked as belonging to Christ, claimed by…
In God’s providence the beauty and duty of the covenant household is tied to that of the gospel. The covenant household is a sacred space where we live not as scattered individuals, but as one body, united in Christ, for His glory and our mutual good; and so it is in the church because of…