A Better Sinner’s Prayer: Baptism as Calling on the Name of the Lord to Be Saved
Baptism is an act of faith whereby the penitent sinner calls upon the name of the risen Lord Jesus to be saved.
Baptism is an act of faith whereby the penitent sinner calls upon the name of the risen Lord Jesus to be saved.
Jesus took John’s baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins and filled it with new and eschatological significance
The events in the book of Acts make it clear that baptism was understood as an essential part of conversion.
From the NT epistles passages on baptism we see that all the blessings of salvation are associated with baptism by faith.
Concluding Implications and Applications for Baptism as Calling on the Name of the Lord.
The resurrection of Christ on the third day is the satisfying fulfillment of Israel's Scriptures as a whole.
Everyone wants to know who wrote Hebrews, but the author has another kind of question in mind.
Jesus is David’s root, David’s descendant, and Jacob’s star. In other words, he is the eternal God, the incarnate Son, and the exalted Lord.
In order to be good readers of the Bible, like the Bereans in Acts 17, we must read carefully, communally, and Christologically.