Hippolytus On Infant Baptism

Now at the time when the cock crows they are at the water. The water should be flowing, or at least running. It should be so if there is no necessity, but if there is continuous and sudden necessity use any water you . . . Continue reading →

Cyprian On Infant Baptism

2.1 As far as concerns the case of infants, you expressed your view that they ought not to be baptised within the second or third day of their birth; rather, the ancient law on circumcision ought to be respected and you therefore . . . Continue reading →

The Reformation, The Regulative Principle, And The Modern Church: Examining Calvin’s Dedication To Purity In Worship (Part 1)

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Walk into any corporate worship service today and you will almost certainly observe that the congregational singing is accompanied by instruments. There is no doubt that the common worship style of today, filled with various instruments and too often supplemented by stage lights and smoke machines, differs significantly from the worship one would have observed in a seventeenth-century Reformed church. Continue reading →

The Resurrection Means Everything

Without Christ’s resurrection, Christian hope disappears. Among many indispensable articles of our faith, Christ’s resurrection crowns the list. Part of the reason for its critical role is because we worship the risen Christ, who is God the Son in power with all . . . Continue reading →