Discalced Baptist

"For detestable to Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things, everyone who is acting dishonestly."  Deut 25:16 LEB Today I took my 4 boys to the toy store. My wife was under the weather, so I sought ways to give her the opportunity to rest. A cup of tea and an empty house I thought would be an excellent way for her to rest. We did some necessary shopping in the morning, but I still needed something to do for the afternoon. Thus, we ended up at the toy store to give my children opportunity to find amusement with the toys on display and placed out as demos. Though my children were well behaved most of the day (as well as can be hoped for 4 boys 5 and under) by the time I let them go play with toys, they became quite unruly. They fought over toys and one had temper tantrum, throwing a toy to the ground. Finally, the last straw came for me when my eldest son broke a toy. It was a little plastic helicopter that had a functional rotor. In trying to force th...

"What am I to do with my children?"  As a Baptist who has wrestled greatly with infant baptism, this is the question that plagues my mind and has caused me to reconsider the debate so often.  I have 4 young boys, the first of whom was sprinkled in the Presbyterian church we currently attend.  The subsequent 3 children I have withheld from it due to my doubts of the validity of infant baptism.  Baptists have published numerous works, exegeting the Biblical texts, and producing well reasoned theological treatises, but I haven't encountered much in regard to my children's current relationship to the church.  Within the Presbyterian scheme, I can easily identify that my children are a part of the local church, and that it is there duty to take upon themselves the responsibility of their membership as they come into their own faith.  Until that time, they ride in essence upon the coattails of mommy and daddy.  We see examples of this all throughout the worl...