Sentences with phrase «write about baptism»

In fact, when I set out to write about baptism, I had no idea my research would lead in this direction on this verse.

Not exact matches

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

It had been a long time since I'd worked on any kind of serious project, but I'd been thinking and writing a lot about the concept of baptism at the time, so it seemed safe to assume that if I was diligent, the other songs would steadily emerge.

Jeremy, I find it rather humorous, in a sad sort of way, that you can write posts about changing (or stopping) baptism and communion (which were good and valid posts), and not hear one peep out of the «plain reading of Scripture» crowd.

Unethical or religious freedom??? What about the LDS practice of Proxy Baptism — baptizing deceased persons of other religions into the LDS faith without the written consent of the family members of the deceased (proxy LDS baptisms have been performed on past Catholic Popes and other top religious figures).

The earliest gospel — St. Mark's, written about 65 CE — begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus.

So, as has happened frequently in the process of writing Close Your Church for G00d, I'm cutting almost everything I have written so far about baptism in the book of Acts, and am summarizing it with the following:

I will begin writing today about «Baptism today» and why I think water baptism is a good practice in some situations, but there might be better alternatives in other situBaptism today» and why I think water baptism is a good practice in some situations, but there might be better alternatives in other situbaptism is a good practice in some situations, but there might be better alternatives in other situations.

This does not help us when we try to figure out what a Biblical author is talking about when he writes about «baptism.»

«This case can not be finally decided without delving into Christian beliefs about baptism, generally, and Presbyterian beliefs, specifically,» Tucker wrote.

«He never writes about different modes of baptism, different views of communion or anything that separates one church from another.»