An Argument for Infant Baptism

Source Note: This post was originally published on The Dirty Christian in June 2017. With that website being taken down, I'm publishing it here. Defending infant baptism (or paedobaptism) is a complex endeavor. A lot of people want those who believe in it to point to a clear instance in Acts when infants were baptized, …

He Can’t Do Otherwise

Winston Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." His point was that a government where people are free still has problems, but it's about as good as you'll get. As for those problems, Nowhere, I think, is this more evident than in the interaction between the legislative …

The Contingent Absolute Necessity of the Atonement and the Old Testament

I’m reading John Murray’s Redemption Accomplished and Applied, the old classic on the atonement. The first chapter is titled “The Necessity of the Atonement.” Here, Murray seeks to answer the question after which Anselm of Canterbury titled a whole book: Why the God-Man? While he goes in to several different points, the one I'm going to …