Tag: English

THE GREATEST TRAGEDY, what could that be? Could it be the sinking of the Titanic? No, that is not it even though it was a great tragedy. How about World War I and then a few years later World War II? Certainly these were great tragedies with the loss of so many lives. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the American dropping of the atomic bomb on and Hiroshima brought untold destruction and death, and as bad as it was, it was not the greatest tragedy. The senseless murder of 6 million innocent Jews by the Hitler regime was…

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Have you ever had an appointment for something? Sure you have! All of us at one time or another has had an appointment; we may have made the appointment our self or another person made it for us. THE APPOINTMENT! It may have been for a job interview, medical reason, family reunion, business meeting, social engagement, a court ordered date, etc. Some appointments we look forward to, such as a date, family reunion, or retirement, but then there are other appointments we dread and at times try to avoid. THE APPOINTMENT is made, but then for whatever reason it may…

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Laws, laws, and more laws! Everywhere we turn there are laws governing one thing or another. Granted, some laws seem pointless, but most are good and they serve a useful purpose. Take for example a traffic light. These exist for the orderly flow of traffic, but not everyone wants to obey them. People, for whatever reason, run red lights and when the police catch them, they have an excuse for why they ran the red light. But the policeman doing his job just replies, “Tell it to the judge.” Or the person caught exceeding the speed limit, “But officer, I was …”…

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The word “baptize” comes from the Greek word “bapto” which means “to whelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid.”  Baptism properly defined means to be completely submerged, as in being totally covered. In Christianity when we say that a person has been “baptized”, we are saying that, that person has been completely immersed in water. We call this a “believer’s baptism.” Such baptism may have taken place in a church baptistry, a lake, pond, river, or a swimming pool, but it was ALWAYS a complete immersion. A complete immersion is the only type taught in the Word of God, thus…

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