When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language, 2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. 3 The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back? 6 O mountains, that you skip […]
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Fathers, Sons, and Baseball
On April 27th, the year of our Lord 2021, the young Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched three baseballs into orbit, for his first three-homerun game of his career, at the age of 22. Two of those shots were lifted off of Pitcher Max Scherzer. But that wasn’t the first time the great Scherzer has been taken […]
Peter’s Preterism
In a recent sermon I asserted a preteristic interpretation of 1 Peter 3:21 (along with an abiding interpretation with baptism as a means of grace). I would like to follow up on that here, as well as point you to this article by the Bible Matrix guy, Michael Bull. I will seek to address preterism […]
Baptism Now Saves You: Baptism as a Means of Grace
Introduction What if I told you that Baptism now saves you? How would you react? Would you call me a heretic? Would it make you nervous? This is the thought experiment I ran this week online. Of course as people act so often online, I was immediately accused of being everything from a Lutheran to […]
To Keep You From Falling
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. 16 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. 2 They will put you […]