Sunday morning sermon by Tim Alsup. The latest installment in our “When Your Children Ask” series, on some controversial issues our young people will likely ask about as they get older. This morning we study the New Testament teaching on baptism – what does God say about it?
We are studying select passages through the Gospel of Luke on Sunday mornings! Today we see the ministry of John the Baptist…what stands out about his teaching? (*In this lesson, Tim mistakenly says that Jesus’ and John’s mothers were “sisters.” He should have said “relatives,” as most translations call them in Luke 1:36*)
Baptism has (sadly) become a debated topic in our religious world. Let’s just look in Scripture, and see what God says about the importance of baptism…
In our divided religious world, most people say that baptism doesn’t really matter. But what does the Bible say? And if it’s important to God in the Bible, how can I make sure I’ve been baptized the way God commands me to?
We are transformed by “renewing our mind” (Romans 12:2), and the path to renewing our mind requires a lot of time with the word of God. This morning we begin a 4-lesson series entitled “Adventures in Bible Reading,” encouraging us to spend more time with God’s word as we explore times in Scripture when “Bible-reading” made something happen. This morning, we begin in Acts chapter 8, where a nobleman found salvation in an unlikely place…
If you wanted to know how to become a Christian, you would hear many different answers in our divided religious world. What does the Bible teach on life’s most important question: what must I do to be saved?
Whoops – our audio recording didn’t work this morning! But you can watch the video… You can watch this sermon on the replay of our livestream at this link: https://www.greatoaks.org/grow/live-streaming/ Scroll down to “Tim Alsup – Why Were They Re-Baptized” on July 24, and you can fast forward to the sermon if you’d like to…