Decades ago my wife Susan and I began receiving phone calls from our married children who had recently had babies asking about baptism. Here was their dilemma: All three of our sons-in-laws were raised in covenantal, calvinistic churches where they were baptized as infants. Now their parents really wanted their grandchildren baptized as well. Similarly, our children were baptized as infants. However, we raised them from middle school on believing that baptism was only for older children or...

A few years ago, I was asked by a man who was baptized as an infant if he should be baptized now as an adult. “It depends,” I said. Have you ever publicly pledged your allegiance to Jesus and meant it?” “No I’ve not. I mean as a high school kid I stood up with a whole group of kids from my church and confirmed I was a Christian, but I'm not sure if I even knew what that meant. And I attend church regular;y and call myself a Christian.” “Then I think you might want to consider being baptized,”...

Who cares? Some of your children or grandchildren may be asking, “Who cares? What difference does it make that I know anything about the Reformation?” Good question actually. Here’s why. I grew up thinking that any church which believed things our church, or denomination didn’t was in error and may not even be Christians. I think it’s good for all Christians to understand that true Christians can disagree on many theological issues as long as they understand saving faith is based on Christ’s...