The theological erosion of worship music is even worse when “contemporary” music arrived. These songs were written by mostly Biblically- and theologically-illiterate young men and women, even those in their early teens!

He has particularly appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto him: which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the last day of the week (Westminster Confession of Faith 21:7).

We hear this evangelical rant every Christmas and Easter. But here are two articles, with short excerpts, debunking these myths.

The third stanza is a plea to all to receive the Child as Prophet, Priest and King.

So if “believer baptizers” are right–if people who have received infant baptism have not received biblical baptism at all–then there have been hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Christian believers who have never obeyed the Lord’s command to be baptized in his Name, believers such as Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, J. Gresham Machen, J. I. Packer, John Stott, R. C. Sproul, etc.

In my conversations with Baptists and other credobaptists (believers’ only baptizers), they always argue based on some really bad presuppositions.

You have revealed Yourself to us as our Father, and all of us are Your children. You have given us our earthly fathers, and in them You give us a glimpse of Your everlasting love.

The examples given in Acts suggest that household baptism was a common practice, and so there must have been thousands of household baptisms. Are we to suppose that there were no young children in any of them?

J. C. Ryle writes that if Jesus wasn’t circumcised on the eighth day, he would be “regarded by all Jews as nothing better than an uncircumcised Gentile and an apostate from the faith of the fathers.”

This time of quiet and rest from regular work gives people time to search their lives and souls with a view to confession of sin … focus on Psalms and Scriptures related to conviction of sin, contrition and repentance.

Multi-site, big personality churches have “trade[d] the Ephesians 4 model of equipping others and giving leadership away for a model that makes ‘the man’ a black hole of money and energy.”

“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.” The Borg’s declaration might as well be the Church Growth Movement’s mission, with its megachurch culture.