August 23, 2009
Baptizing Grace
Bill Hallsted explains why baptism is rooted in God’s grace, not flawless wording or a legalistic formula, while still calling Christians to teach the biblical meaning of baptism faithfully.
Articles for tag: Baptism
August 23, 2009
To the Best of My Ability
Glen Elliott contrasts religious performance with grace-filled discipleship, showing how guidance, freedom, and relationship help people follow Jesus well without turning faith into another grading chart.
August 2, 2009
Catholicism . . . It”s a Family Thing
Toney Salva offers practical guidance for churches welcoming former Catholics, emphasizing patience, humility, biblical teaching, children’s ministry, and a focus on Jesus rather than Catholic bashing.
August 2, 2009
Walking with My Expatriate Catholic Friends
Don M. Hamilton offers practical guidance for churches welcoming ex-Catholics, emphasizing patient listening, clear Bible teaching, worship explanation, family sensitivity, and grace-filled discipleship.
Valuable Downloads for You and Others You Know
Christian Standard highlights a growing list of downloadable resources for teaching, preaching, personal study, church leadership, and local church distribution through ChristianStandard.com.
The Lord”s Supper: We Are What We Repeat
Ethan Magness reflects on how repeated participation in the Lord's Supper can shape believers, warning that Communion can either deepen faith or become empty ritual.
June 24, 2009
The Baptism Bandwagon
Churches are seeing moving responses through spontaneous baptism weekends, as people respond immediately to Bible teaching and enter the water in street clothes.
March 25, 2009
Interview with Jeff Vines
Jeff Vines explains how Christ’s Church of the Valley prepared for a sermon on baptism that led to hundreds of people responding in obedience.
March 25, 2009
Highlighting the Beauty of Baptism
Mark A. Taylor highlights baptism stories from California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania while pointing readers to Christian Standard resources that help churches teach baptism clearly.
March 8, 2009
What Baptism Requests
Jon Weatherly’s article excerpt introduces a Christian Standard baptism resource and highlights the New Testament pattern of baptism in the context of conversion.
March 8, 2009
Read More About Baptism . . .
Jon Weatherely offers a concise bibliography of recommended baptism resources, including works by G.R. Beasley-Murray, Jack Cottrell, Robert H. Stein, and Jon A. Weatherly.
March 8, 2009
Understanding Four Views of Baptism
A Christian Standard baptism resource collects several 2009 articles, while this sample from Mark S. Krause’s review introduces Understanding Four Views on Baptism and its Restoration Movement perspective.
To Keep, to Share, to Teach
Christian Standard announces a downloadable baptism resource collecting recent articles and interviews on baptism for churches to use in teaching, outreach, and discussion.
March 1, 2009
Remember Your Baptism
By Bruce E. Shields  This article is no longer available online, but all of the articles about baptism that appeared in the March 1 and 8, 2009, issues of CHRISTIAN STANDARD–plus a bonus article–are available for purchase as a single, redisigned, easy-to-read and easy-to-use downloadable resource/pdf (a fuller explanation is below).  Baptism: 7 Practical Perspectives Item 02973 “¢Â $2.99 What does the Bible teach about baptism? What does baptism symbolize and what does it accomplish? Why is there so much disagreement? Seven writers offer their insights on this controversial but fundamental topic in this 14-page resource that””with the exception
March 1, 2009
What Happened When I Preached on Baptism?
Brian Jones reflects on the pastoral challenge of teaching about baptism, introducing Christian Standard’s Baptism: 7 Practical Perspectives resource and the questions surrounding baptism’s meaning and importance.
March 1, 2009
Not the Only Christians
Robert O. Fife reflects on baptism, grace, Dachau, and Martin Niemoeller while asking whether loyalty to biblical baptism can become blindness to the marvelous grace of God.
February 25, 2009
Interview with Joe Grana
Joe Grana discusses baptism as a relational act of faith, a Restoration Movement conviction, and a point of Christian unity without requiring total agreement.
December 17, 2008
Christmas and the Promise of Peace
Mark A. Taylor reflects on Bethany beyond the Jordan, the fragile peace of treaties, and the deeper peace Christ gives to troubled hearts at Christmas.
December 7, 2008
Stop Baptizing!
Dave Ferguson challenges church leaders to stop doing all the baptizing and let disciples, family members, and spiritual mentors share in the joy and responsibility of baptism.
November 30, 2008
The Emerging Church and the Stone-Campbell Movement: Some Striking Similarities (Part 2)
William R. Baker explores four additional connections between the Stone-Campbell Movement and emerging churches, focusing on local church authority, creeds, weekly Communion, and baptism.
