Within protestant circles there is at the present time a widespread loss of conviction regarding the propriety and preceptive necessity of infant baptism. Even when the practice still persists, oftentimes there is little more than sentiment and tradition behind it. Such a situation is deplorable. Traditional sentiment can never be pleaded as the proper ground [...]
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Murray on Baptism
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments
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Christian Obedience
April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Obedience Is Relational
This may seem obvious, but obedience requires two parties: the one obeying, and the one obeyed. The Christian obeys God. Christian obedience is not some sort of purity detached from relationship to God. We do not pursue a self-contained morality, as if virtue in itself [...]
Death and the Afterlife
March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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The Ascension
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
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Rejected Redeemers
November 27th, 2007 · No Comments
One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out [...]
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Grace Fuels Ethics
November 11th, 2007 · No Comments
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” But the [...]
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The Origin of the Soul
October 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments
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