We came up against the apparent wall of {{Acts 2:38}} where
Peter is demanding that the crowd be baptized in order to receive
forgiveness of sin. Rory’s point which spurred the discussion seems to stand. Is
this proof of baptismal regeneration (with new meaning to {{Ephesians 4}})…even
though the rest of our study seemed to contradict this?
In our last post we touched on a few things. Namely, that
before Christianity there were ceremonial baptisms, or washings, of the Old
Testament and the baptism of John. We looked at John’s purpose in baptism and
we looked at what the people did as they went to get baptized. We also mentioned
some baptisms brought by Christ—one with the Holy Spirit and one with fire. Lastly,
we managed to begin to see what role water played in the giving of the Holy
Spirit in the book of Acts. Today, we start to encounter problems…
I am proud to announce Voices For Christ, an online resource
offering sermons in a digital audio format and partially re-mastered for your
listening pleasure. My role in the project has been immensely small but a
certain Dwight Beavers has spent countless hours doing the conversion and
re-mastering. Many of the speakers are Brethren and you may recognize some of
the speakers but if anything, it is quite the resource. I like to listen to the
Bible or Preaching when I’m driving in the car. With the investment of a cheap
30 dollar mp3 player I can fit about 100 messages on a single cd! This site lets
you download the audios for free or compile a cd and they’ll burn it for you. The
library may change per month due to bandwidth issues, but there you go…the
Voices For Christ! I put them under Brethren resources.
Bridget is feeling overwhelmed with several concerns in her life. She asks for prayer.
Rather than starting every article with a joke, I decided to use a real life story which, often times, can be funnier than any joke.
I have a three year old son whose chief delight is playing in either dirt or mud. So much so, that we have needed to place limitations on his mud-playing. For instance, since we generally don’t allow him to play outside when it is wet and rainy, he found that he needed a source of water for his mud-making. So, he would often find a bucket, turn on the faucet that is outside our house, fill the bucket and go off to his mud-making. Of course, once his use for the faucet was over, it was forgotten, and rather than shutting it off, within a short amount of time we would have gallons of water flowing down our driveway. To remedy this, we placed rather strict parameters on the use of the outside faucet (i.e. NO usage except with Dad or Mom’s permission)…