As evangelical Christians continue to come into contact with historic Reformed writers and the Reformed confessions they often notice some significant discrepancies between what they have known and believed, what is being presented as “Reformed,” and what they are reading in older sources. Covenant theology and baptism are two of the focal points in such discussions. What readers are discovering is that there are competing covenant theologies and competing ways of understanding the history of redemption and of interpreting Scripture that both claim to be Reformed.

Below are some resources written to help readers to cross the bridge from modern evangelical theology, piety, and practice to classical, confessional Reformed theology, piety, and practice. My advice is to read these free, online resources in the order presented. The actual discussion of baptism comes toward the end last because one’s understanding of baptism is really the product of a number of other assumptions and conclusions that one has already drawn about the nature of the history of redemption and about how the Bible is to be read and interpreted.

1. Why Does It Take So Long To Explain Infant Baptism?
2. A Really Short Case For Infant Baptism (117 words)
3. On the New Covenant
4. Is There A Covenant Of Grace?
5. Resources On The Internal/External Distinction In The Covenant Of Grace
6. What Is The Substance Of The Covenant Of Grace?
7. Jude On the Continuity of the Covenant of Grace
8. Did The Covenant Of Grace Begin In The New Covenant?
9. Tracing the Paradigm Shift: Two Ways Of Being In The One Covenant of Grace
10. Some Of The Differences Between Baptists And Reformed Theology On The New Covenant
11. Three Ways Of Relating To One Covenant Of Grace
12. Moses Was Not Abraham
13. The Abrahamic Covenant Unifies Redemptive History
14. What Is And Is Not New About The New Covenant
15. Resources On The Role Of Abraham In Redemptive History
16. Yes, The Reformed Churches Do Baptize On The Basis Of The Abrahamic Promise
17. Video: The Abraham Paradigm
18. What Do We Mean By Sacrament, Sign, and Seal?
19. Abraham, Moses, and Circumcision
20. Jesus: Baptism Is Death
21. Circumcision And Baptism
22. True Circumcision Was Always Spiritual
23. Ishmael and Infant Baptism
24. Baptism and the Benefits of Christ: The Double Mode of Communion
25. Does Baptism Save?
26. If We Baptize Infants Why Do We Not Also Commune Them?
27. Untangling Webs of Assumptions About Baptism
28. Does Romans 8:9–11 Require Believer’s Baptism?
29. A Reformed Defense Of Infant Baptism
30. Seed, Seeds, and Infant Baptism
31. What’s the Use Of Infant Baptism?
32. What About Matthew 19:13–15?
33. Does Romans 8:9–11 Require Believer’s Baptism?
34. Household Baptisms In Acts
35. Is Infant baptism a Roman Catholic leftover?
36. Does the Nicene Creed Teach Baptismal Regeneration?
37. The Reformed Churches confess Infant Baptism
38. Video: Why Baptize Infants
39. Dunking, Sprinkling, Or Pouring (Or Does It Matter)?
40. Further Reading on Covenant Theology
41. What Advantage Has The Jew? Much In Every Way
42. Deconversion And Covenant Theology
43. Should We Talk About Breaking The Covenant Of Grace?
44. For Whom Is Christ Mediating?
45. Baptists And Federal Visionists Together?
46. Engaging With 1689 (series)
47. An Intramural Baptist Debate That Illumines The Profound Differences Between Baptist And Reformed Theology, Piety, And Practice
48. Acts 2:39: What Is The Promise And To Whom Is It Made?
49. There Is No Credo Baptist Heidelberg Catechism or Why Hercules Collins Was Not Reformed
50. Engaging Confessional Baptists on Covenant Theology (Part 1): Typology
51. Engaging Confessional Baptists on Covenant Theology (Part 2): Unity of Salvation in the Old and New Testaments
52. The 1689  Compared and Contrasted With the WCF
53. The Commander Of Yahweh’s Army: The Son And The Covenant Of Grace Present In The Types And Shadows
54. Origen: The Early Church Received The Practice Of Infant Baptism From The Apostles
55. Tertullian Acknowledged The Existence Of Infant Baptism
56. Hippolytus (c. 215 AD): Baptize Infants
57. Cyprian: Baptize Infants (253 AD)
58. Cyprian Appealed To Colossians 2:11-12 In His Explanation Of Infant Baptism
59. Augustine: Infant Baptism Is The Apostolic And Universal Practice Of The Church
60. Calvin Addressed The Same Objections To Infant Baptism That We Hear Today
61. Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (5)
62. Another Particular Baptist Wrinkle: The Early Church Baptized Infants But For The Wrong Reasons
63. Some Practical Consequences Of Reformed Covenant Theology
64. Heidelminicast Q&A: Why Didn’t The Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) Tell Us To Baptize Babies?
65. Featley: The Sweet Dipper
66. Heidelcast Series: I Will Be A God To You And to Your Children
67. Heidelcast Series: Chad Vegas On Covenant and Baptism
68. Heidelminicast Q&A: Sacerdotalism, Baptism, and The Ancient of Days
69. Heidelminicast Q&A: Christian Nationalism and Baptism
70. Heidelminicast Q&A: On What Makes A Baptism Valid Or Invalid?
71. Heidelminicast: Q&A On Baptismal Regeneration
72. Heidelminicast: Why Liam Changed His Mind About Baptism
73. Heidelminicast: Belgic Confession Art. 34—The Reformed Churches Confess The Baptism Of Believers And Their Children
74. Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 69—How Does Baptism Signify That I Have Part In Christ’s One Sacrifice?
75. Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 70—What Does It Mean To Be Washed With Christ’s Blood And Spirit?
76. Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 71—Where Has Jesus Promised That Believers Are As Certainly Clean Before God As They Are Washed With Baptismal Water?
77. Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 72—Does The Application Of Baptismal Water Regenerate And Cleanse Us?
78. Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 73—Why Does The Holy Spirit Call Baptism The Washing Of Regeneration?

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