by David Allen | Mar 30, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Calvinism, Theology
Five years ago this week, Whosoever Will: a Biblical-Theological Critique of Five-Point Calvinism, which I co-edited along with Dr. Steve Lemke, was published by B&H Academic....
by David Allen | Mar 25, 2015 | Bible, Preaching, Quotes, Theology
When I was a teenage preacher, in virtually every pastor’s study I entered I saw on the shelf the four-volume set Word Studies in the New Testament by Marvin R. Vincent. The work was originally published in 1887 and it remains in print. It is Vincent’s best known...
by David Allen | Mar 23, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Quotes, Theology
Our Anabaptist and Baptist forefathers were mistreated, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by Catholic and Protestant alike over their commitment to a New Testament ecclesiology centered around believer’s baptism by immersion. I wonder if we modern day Southern...
by David Allen | Mar 17, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Scripture References, Theology
The two bedrock passages concerning the theology of baptism are Romans 6:3-5 and Colossians 2:12. In Rom 6:4 baptism not only symbolizes identification with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection; it declares our burial with him. It is precisely here that the...
by David Allen | Mar 13, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Scripture References, Theology
While in England this past summer I came across a book entitled Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated. This work is one of the most significant archaeological studies of baptismal fonts by paedobaptist E. Tyrrell-Green. I was struck by his candor regarding the...
