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...
by David Allen | Mar 11, 2015 | Bible, Preaching, Scripture References, Sermons
NOTE: This is a portion of my sermon on 1 John 1:5-10 in my commentary 1-3 John: Fellowship in the Family, published by Crossway. The focus is on 1 John 1:5. This statement, “God is light,” has been interpreted in different ways. First, it could be a description of...
by David Allen | Mar 9, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Theology
NOTE: This is Part 9 of a multi-part series on Baptism and Baptists. Today’s post deals with the historical data concerning the rise of sprinkling as a mode of baptism. Since even paedobaptists are agreed that the apostolic practice was immersion, how and why...
by David Allen | Mar 2, 2015 | Bible, Culture, Gospel, Quotes, Scripture References, Theology
NOTE: These are my notes that I used March 2 at the Expository Preaching Workshop on “Preaching Jude” at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The lecture along with these notes will be posted online within a few weeks at www.swbts.edu. “…I found it...
by David Allen | Feb 27, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Theology
Space does not permit an extensive evaluation of what the Church Fathers, paedobaptists and Baptists have said about the mode of baptism, nor is such necessary since their views have been well documented.[1] The older Baptist works defending baptism by immersion are...
by David Allen | Feb 23, 2015 | Baptist, Bible, Theology
In each case in the New Testament where the Greek word baptidzō (to baptize) is used, language, contextual considerations, and logic itself dictate that immersion is intended. It has often been argued against immersion that there was insufficient water in Jerusalem on...
