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 ...

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

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 ...

The “saving water” of baptism brings about a “reconciled heart” and “a new man” and “remission of sins” and “the forgiveness of sins” and “the Holy Spirit” and allows us to ...

False doctrine is poison to the soul, and multitudes of people have been condemned for eternity after embracing lethal false doctrines ...

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 ...

Matthew 28:19-20 No one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and ... Son and Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19), so these words are said during the baptism.