If you do not have either, pour water on the head three times into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In all this specificity there may be wisdom for us today. Baptism may take a number of ...

This is confirmation season. While some of our candidates receive this great sacrament in the fall or winter, the vast ...

23 From then on, it is possible "to be born of water and the Spirit" 24 in order to enter the Kingdom of God. See where you are baptized, see where Baptism comes from, if not from the cross of ...

It also closely identifies baptism and justification ... unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which ...

John the Baptist himself clearly distinguished the baptism of repentance through water and the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire that Jesus received and will give to those who ask for it.

Throughout church history a few marginal movements have denied the propriety and significance of water baptism by their exclusive emphasis on the Holy Spirit’s baptism of believers. But the ...

It looks like a natural and instinctive response to that water baptism. The water baptism is separately (and, for now, uniquely) followed by a descent of the Spirit upon Jesus. There is at least a ...

Christian baptism is not baptism into ... "As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. At that moment Heaven was opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and ...