Daniel Tomberlin

For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is  neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:27-28).

The church is an egalitarian community. Baptism is the bath of new creation in which the Holy Spirit washes away the stain of sin, renews the believer, signifies adoption into the family of God (Galatians 3:26), and unites the believer with Christ (Acts 22:16; Romans 6:5; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Ephesians 5:26; Titus 3:5).

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On the day of Pentecost, those who witnessed the events asked two questions: (1) What does this mean? and (2) What shall we do? This presentation seeks to answer both questions by offering the essential truths of the Christian faith and the essential practices of the Faith.

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There are no words more significant in any human language than the words spoken by the angel on that first Easter morning. On Good Friday, it seemed that death had claimed one more victim. For fear of their own lives, those closest to Jesus went into hiding. It was just a matter of time before the Roman soldiers would come to arrest them, and possibly each of them would be nailed to a cross of their own. It seemed that with the death of Jesus on the cross, all the hopes of his followers were banished forever.

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As the Roman soldiers hoisted the cross, with Jesus nailed to it, the Son of Man was being lifted up and he was drawing all humanity to himself (John 12:32).

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