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Jan 2025
Baptism of Jesus 2025 Rev. Dr. Chris Hensley January 19th, 2025 Luke 3:15-17, 20-22 Baptism has been an important sacrament, ordinance, rite, or whatever word you would like to attach to it, since before Christianity even existed. Baptism, which means to immerse or dip or wash, is an act of individual worship, a ritual which was done solo and was done so that the individual in question might be made ceremonially clean once again after having been through an event which made them unclean. John the Baptist, though was baptizing people in......
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Nov 2024
Christian Baptism Rev. Dr. Chris Hensley November 10th, 2024 Romans 12:9-21 Christian baptism is considered a sacrament in many Christian traditions and denominations, a religious rite which imparts Divine grace. Within Baptist – and other Free Church – traditions, baptism is considered an ordinance which basically means that baptism holds significance and authority, though it is not a mode of Divine grace. The same is true for communion. Essentially, baptism is not the way which Baptists receive Divine grace, though it is an outward profession of faith in the Christian God who......
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