Recent Baptismal Testimony

This last week­end I was bap­tized into mem­ber­ship at Auburn­dale Bap­tist Church.  Some of you may know that I was bap­tized into col­lege, so why did I get rebap­tized? My inten­tion is to explain why in an upcom­ing post. In the mean time, here is the tes­ti­mony I read before my bap­tism. Today I come before fam­ily, friends, and the […]

Calvin on the Believer’s Confidence in God’s Providence

“When once the light of divine Prov­i­dence has shone in the believer’s heart, he is relieved and lib­er­ated, not only from the extreme fear and anx­i­ety which had pre­vi­ously oppressed him, but from all wor­ries. Because, as he rightly rejects the idea of chance, he can con­fi­dently put him­self in God’s hands. What a com­fort! He […]

Profiling the Church Fathers

In this intro­duc­tion to a series on the church fathers I define who the church fathers were and why they are of impor­tance to us today. It is the start to a series of his­tor­i­cal and the­o­log­i­cal pro­files of the titans of our faith.